Recently, health-care has resurfaced as a prominent issue in the presidential campaign largely because the Democratic candidates, Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden, have launched a coordinated and sustained assault on Senator John McCain’s proposal to expand health insurance coverage with refundable tax credits. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
I hadn't heard of the "Ethics and Public Policy Center," where the author is a fellow, so I checked and found Rick Santorum's writings, homophobia, etc. That helps me explain how the author can take statistics used to support Obama's plan and falsely claim that they support McCain's plan.
This opinion piece cites several expert sources to debunk Obama's claim that McCain's health plan represents a net tax increase to households. It then continues the numbers game citing one expert or another to support its points. Despite all the trees, I end up missing the forest.
This is really odd. I've read a number of other stories that cite exactly these same studies. But the other stories make considerably different claims. Even the the report on the Lewin study, which paints the most favorable picture of the McCain plan, was very different from what this one says. Since ALL the other articles I've read disagree with this one, I have to assume this is the one that's wrong.
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