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Mr. McCain on Health Insurance/Care, Pt.8 – Who really understands McCain’s plan?

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These states do their best to match health insurance payments of the consumers, with the intent of expanding enrollment. But, in the end, most of these states are stymied by existing health insurance costs and are forced to expend their grant money just to keep their existing programs going. So much for expanding the high-risk health insurance programs 55 times greater than they are now to cover the ‘denied’ population that Mr. McCain promises to ‘not leave behind’. Is this just another ‘No child left behind’ tactic where a Republican administration touts a popular vision but, instead of providing critical resources to implement it, they just order state governments to make it happen and then blame the states when it doesn’t happen?

It’s sad to note how little media coverage the all-important topic of the tens of millions of destitute Americans being denied affordable health insurance has received in the press. Hardly anyone is even aware of the ‘GAP’ issue and its ramifications. The reason seems to be that too many people are solidly locked into selecting just a few sources of ‘reliable’ information and are programmed to ‘tune out’ the rest. If they don’t hear about ‘health insurance woes’ from one of the few ‘reliable’ sources then they simply deem it as ‘must not be important’. One of the brave and trustworthy sources not on these peoples’ list is the Wall Street Journal. They were the ones bold enough to ask the most begging question: “How much will McCain spend to subsidize coverage?” Absent, of course, was a responsible reply. The New York Times, another one of those brave and trustworthy sources, apparently, not on those peoples’ list also examined this critical issue.

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