A basic human Right 2

In my previous blog, I talked about Obama's health care policy. In this blog I am going to examine John Mccain's proposal and show how it will single handily ruin the health care system worse than it all ready is. Mccain wants to provide individuals with a $2500 tax credit and $5000 per family, to be able to go and purchase the plan of your choice. Also what he wants to do is deregulate heath care. Hmmm sounds reminiscent of something? He wants individuals to be able to go across state borders, in search of the cheapest plan. Deregulation of market would allow companies to deny people with preexisting conditions. He is also proposing for the first time, to tax health care, which currently companies recieve a tax break for insuring employees. This would cause many companies to drop insurance, which according to non partisan studies (NY times) would leave 20 million people without health insurance. So if you count the 40 million or so of the currently uninsured and now add that 20 million, thats 60 million uninsured Americans. What John Mccain doesnt tell you when promoting his $5000 tax credit is that the average yearly health insurance cost is $12000. Under a Mccain health care plan, the sick would not be able to obtain coverage nor the poor. In a recent NY Times article they cited a quote from Mccain about deregulation of the Health Care market. “Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.” This says it all. We have seen what deregulation of the banking market has led us to- a financial crisis. Are we going to elect John Mccain and look back 10 years from now, when we are dealing with a health care crisis and regret not looking further into his plan? Americans need to look carefully at the policies both candidates propose and in doing so will be able to avoid making the same mistakes in health care as we did in the financial sector.

Health care is a issue that is personal to me, I know many people who have struggled and left in dire situations because of the current health care situation. As I have said before, it is something I am very passionate about. We all know someone who has been negatively affected by health care and that makes it a personal to us all. We need to demand change and not settle for anything less. It is okay to stand up and let your voice be heard about how corrupt and immoral the current system is. We need people to get involved and demand action from our elected officials, because they need to answer to their constituents not to insurance company lobbyists. Health care is not a responsibility as John Mccain said it was in the last debate but a basic human right!

Also, for further reading about how John Mccains plan will affect businesses, this is an intresting article. http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=5009