McCain Health Plan Has Underlying Illness

Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) has promised to revolutionize the U.S. health care industry if elected president by ending the current employer-based tax subsidy and offering the subsidy instead to individuals. His plan would cost about $1.3 trillion over 10 years, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

McCain says his plan would be revenue neutral -- so he would have to make cuts or raise taxes to pay for it. His chief policy adviser, ... Full Story »

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Patricia Blochowiak
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by Patricia Blochowiak - Oct. 7, 2008

This story offers McCain's claims and rebuttals by reliable sources. It says what almost all of the sources I read are saying and what I, a physician, say after reading his plan, which is that McCain's plan has serious flaws and would not improve the availability of health care in the U.S.

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