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Hazy, Risky Health Plan, Pt.1 – Let’s not fall into the sewer again.

Well, it’s about time. We’re getting down to the wire and straight truth is finally surfacing concerning Mr. McCain’s health insurance/care proposals. The days are fading when all a candidate had to do was smile reassuringly that he would fix everything and then, when confronted with the question “How?” would artfully dodge over to an attack on his opponent. Finally people are becoming serious about critical answers about “how” this plan would ‘fix’ the health insurance/care crisis. Non-partisan, John Harkey has just published a very fine article concerning the truth in Mr. McCain’s health insurance proposal for The Tennessean Times and posted it on their tennessean.com website.

Mr. Harkey quickly sorts out the crux of the health insurance situation. Deregulation. Mr. McCain’s proud stance about deregulation, with its positive spin, is no longer the selling point it was a month ago. So many Americans had refused to look down at their feet when they were told there was an open manhole in front of them called ‘Deregulation’. They seemed surprised when they fell through. Deregulation and regulation themselves are actually neutral – neither good nor bad. But their application is almost always, one of the two. It all comes down to healthy balance – the right amount. The two extremes are both extremely bad. Mr. McCain is an extremist (or was, at least, till the meltdown). What Mr. Harkey is wisely pointing out is the warning that there’s, yet another open manhole, still in front of us (an un-disarmed land mine, actually). That, would be the extreme deregulation in Mr. McCain’s health insurance proposal.

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