Why is the media not covering the fact that the tax credit does not go to the consumer but directly to the insurance companies and that the average health insurance proemium is over $10,000

From the McCain web site

"every family will also have the option of receiving a direct refundable tax credit - effectively cash - of $2,500 for individuals and $5,000 for families to offset the cost of insurance. Families will be able to choose the insurance provider that suits them best and the money would be sent directly to the insurance provider."

http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/19ba2f1c-c03f-4ac2-8cd5-5cf2edb527cf.htm

Why does the government have anything at all to do with health insurance? How about John McCain respect free markets, or else we don't vote for him?

How could Senator McCain's campaign staff not know that the policies he is proposing for health care will increase the administrative cost from the 15% or 20% to 35% or 40$. Thus, less will go to take care of the sick.

This ad for "Bold Solutions" is the emptiest piece of verbage I have seen. If this is the best he can come up with during this unfettered time while the Democrats continue the primary, he and his campaign and his future Administration is as empty as I had thought. No doubt he is a good man. But he is not a leader; he is not visionary; he is not knowledgeable; he is not "bold" and he, apparently, is not surrounding himself with advisors who are. I wonder how much they had to pay for this ad.....

BOLD SOLUTIONS?
I ALWAYS NEW THAT MILLIONAIRS WERE THE PROBLEM WITH OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.
THAT AND DON'T FORGET WE NEED TO IMPORT MORE DRUGS FROM OUT OF THE COUNTRY MAYBE CHINA WHERE THE LABOR COSTS AND QUALITY ARE REALLY CHEAP.
WE NEED A PRESIDENT THAT WANTS TO IMPORT MORE PRODUCTS NOT EXPORT?

If Americans really want "universal" health care. Why not nationalize the system and remove the middle men. (Insurance Companies) What the government wastes by being incompetent will probably be less that what the insurance companies rake in in excessive profits.

PS: Nationalized health works in France. Oh yeah, they pay for their doctor's education and then have an excuse to pay only realistic salaries. (Duh)

Health care cannot be reformed by tinkering at the edges like providing tax breaks. It needs radical restructuring. Anything that falls short will only lead to more chaos and delays in making actual progress.

Entitlements are exploding as the nation ages and more and more companies stop providing health insurance. The only real solution has to be a single payer that coverers everyone for basic healthcare. If people want more than what the single payer provides, they can buy insurance for additional coverages.

Whole industries have stopped buying insurance for their workers. Try finding a small private contractor that provides medical insurance for their workers. They may have workers compensation which is legally required but hardly health care. We need to attack this problem with boldly not the lame tinkering that McCain is proposing.

This proposal together with his absurd proposal to lift the gasoline tax have completely proved that this man is incapable of the rationality required to be our next President.

I appreciate people who reserve themselves from smear potential candidates for the presidency.

Heath care should not and be not universal. This would be a great burden and cause many other problems for our country.

What needs to happen is one of two things. The insurance companies need to be much more heavily regulated and watched to make sure they are covering claims or two make insurance companies non-profit.

This is not the governments job to carry the burden of health care but it is there job to issue regulations and laws when there is a failure of morals or market conditions.

His plan shows that he is out of touch with the rest of us Americans. He has NO CLUE what insurance costs, and is fortunate to have his Veterans Administration and Senate health coverage. The man is spoiled and out of touch with the real world.

Walk in my shoes, John. Healthcare costs are out of control, and your wimpy credit does little for me. Glad you are living the fat life off of your free government healthcare. Wish I could get your plan. But I'm just an average citizen.

I don't know what everyone has against socialized medical care. We have had socialized agriculture in this country for the last thirty-five to forty years.

Everybody has an opinion. How about specific examples of what insurance would cost you?

In the case of a 42 year old male non-smoker, $2500 would buy about 6 months of coverage for an individual. In the example below, you would be responsible for coming up with an additional $1920 per year to cover the other 6 months.

e.g.

Regence Blueshield

Monthly Rate for this Plan $320.00

Deductible: $500
Office visit Copay: $20
Coinsurance: 20%
Out-of-Pocket Maximum: $2,500

John Mccain admits the War in Iraq was for oil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS97mwq3zvM

John MCcain's so-called health plan would remove all regulation from insurance companies, so they could prey on us like the vultures they are.

And oh, yeah, he opposes 'government' health care, which he has enjoyed, as a member of the military and as a Senator -- he entire life.

Okay for him, but not for us, right, John?

Insurance for a family of 3 this year -- monthly premiums $1500.

And then there's the copays, deductibles, etc. McCain's 'plan' is nothing but a giveaway to insurance companies.

McCain is the 6th cousin of the 1st Lady! So we will have the dynasty continue again for 35 years!

Where was McCain born, is he even a US citizen?

What's wild is that McCain's health plan has an agenda beneath the rhetoric about how it proposes an "answer" that will solve the "problem."

Republicans have for generations been against large scale societal fixes, and, it seems to me, they basically believe personal responsibility is itself like a market; thus it's survival of the fit. So, vis a vis healthcare, it's not surprisingly that McCain would invert the risk model and toss away the employer-based groups to let everyone fend for themselves as under-written individual insurees.

The agenda is to guarantee that the insurance companies can cherry pick and dramatically increase their profit margins. This is obvious to me like a slap in the face is obvious.

Provide incentives to end employer-based health insurance and you'll get the purest kind of free market experiment--one never tried before--and it will result I submit in millions upon millions of aging people joining the ranks of the uninsured.

In the short term this will be very very good for corporate profits and it will revamp the insurance company risk model. But, it will make the E.R. and charity care the first choice of many, and, over the long term, health care's aggregate costs will go through the roof.

Hollow as problem solving but brilliant as a Republican Trojan Horse.

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