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Medicare: The Next Golden Goose, Pt.1 – Permission is better than forgiveness.

Detail is good, when reality comes in doubt. Some detail is finally emerging the smoke and mirrors of vagaries. Before touchdown, it’s always better to escape the cloud-cover before those wheels hit. Touchdown here, is election day. While Mr. Obama’s health insurance/care reform budget plan has largely been laid bare from the get-go, it has also been exposed as a non-moving target. Finer details and refinements are always necessary and critics will be there to attack. But the basic funding plan has been open to the public from the beginning. Not so, with Mr. McCain’s health insurance/care reform budget plans. It’s only coming to light as we speak. So we need to quickly catch up for the months we’ve missed to give equal scrutiny, if we are to vote intelligently.

Breaking news out of Roanoke has revealed a hidden iceberg that may present very a serious impact to the ‘hull of our health’. There’s already been some airplay concerning Mr. McCain’s bated sale of health insurance tax credits that are programmed to emerge as tax debits within five years. But the looming concern basking in obscurity is mow coming into focus. That is the $64,000 (actually much higher) question: ” Where is Mr. McCain going to come up with the $1.3 trillion that experts agree will be required to implement his health insurance/care reform budget proposal?

Up until now, Mr. McCain has only given us the paltry explanation that he is setting $10 billion aside for it. Something, obviously, has to give here. So to defray closer scrutiny, he had only left us with the explanation: “These are very preliminary figures”. Preliminary, indeed! As the day of voter commitment approaches, the responsibility of our candidates’ commitments and candid honesty intensifies. ‘Forgiveness’ only goes so far. How about taking the ‘permission’ route?

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