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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 09:17 AM
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McCain touts Bush healthcare plan

This comes from the DNC:


The Tulsa World reports that President Bush will conduct a business roundtable in Oklahoma City today to promote his failed plan for health savings accounts before heading off to a private closed door fundraiser for John McCain's campaign. http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20080910_16_A4_hHepla243517>

As part of his record of voting with President Bush more than 90 percent of the time, John McCain endorsed the Bush plan for health savings accounts even though the Wall Street Journal said was "dead-on-arrival in Congress in early 2007." This plan is a radical new scheme to tax health insurance benefits for the first time in history, provide more power to insurance companies, and give families a tax credit that covers only a fraction of average health insurance costs.

"It should surprise no one that President Bush is raising money for the candidate who is promising more of the same failed Bush policies on everything from health care to the economy," said Democratic National Committee spokesman Damien LaVera. "While millions of Americans have lost their health insurance in the Bush-McCain era, John McCain says we're better off than we were eight years ago and that the fundamentals of our economy are strong. No wonder he's promising a warmed over version of the failed Bush plan that won't do anything to help Americans find health care."

http://hummingbirdminds.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-touts-bush-healthcare-plan.html
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 09:20 AM
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1. Bush healthcare program is faith based, let people cure themselves or die
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 09:21 AM
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2. I didn't know bu$h had a health care plan
I thought it was everybody for themselves under bu$h.

Health savings accounts are not a health care plan. They are everybody for themselves.
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