How long before McCain warns us all against "socialized medicine"?

[hedgehog]

And what other golden oldies wil he bring to the table?

[stray cat]

1. Hillary care is the name they will also use regardless of the nominee

[babylonsister]

2. John McCain, lifetime beneficiary of 'socialized medicine'

Seems like a good counter-argument to me...

http://www.democracyforutah.com/node/2159

John McCain, lifetime beneficiary of 'socialized medicine'
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Submitted by lucidity on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 11:27am.

Ezra Klein:

As Sarah Arnquist has written, aside from his awful internment in a Vietnamese prison camp, it is hard to find a day in McCain's life when he was not sheltered by the government-run health care he now claims to loathe. Born the son of a Navy admiral, he was cared for by Navy physicians during his childhood. After graduating from high school, he enrolled in the United States Naval Academy, and the military's care continued until he retired from the service in 1981. In 1982, he won a seat in Congress, ushering him into the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, and in 2001, he qualified for Medicare. When he says, "we have the highest quality of health care in the world in America," he is speaking as a man who has enjoyed a lifetime of government-run care.

But now John McCain is seeking the presidency as a Republican, and a healthy distaste for government-run health care is de rigueur. "I am convinced," said John McCain at Miami Children's Hospital, "that the wrong way to go is to turn over your lives to the government and hope it will all be fine. It won't." Spoken like a 71-year-old whose government health coverage has kept him healthy enough to run for the presidency.

[jaxx]

3. I wonder how he'll spin that one.

I told one pub, I don't care what you call it, we need a universal health care plan and we need it now. He was dumbfounded when his socialized bs didn't work. Pub lingo doesn't cut it for the millions of uninsured and underinsured in this country.

[Grey]

5. Well said. Thanks

I'm going to use this on the 'brother-in-law'.

[Skidmore]

4. Not long. I heard a caller to Washington Journal

going on about how much he believed in socialism--was a RW type trying to masquerade as a socialist trying to gin up fears of the commie pinko state. I rolled my eyes and thought that if this is the best they can do, then we need to soldier on to victory.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. My friends, when I was a POW in Vietnam, the medical care I got was awful

That was a socialist government. That's the kind of care everyone gets under socialism. That's why I'm opposed to socialized medicine.

And by the way, have I mentioned that I was a POW in Vietnam?

[kenny blankenship]

8. Very interesting, Senator - what about the ½ century of socialized medicine U received from the USA?

When did you turn that down or protest that?

[DavidDvorkin]

11. My friend, let my address that by mentioning that I was a POW in Vietnam

[Joe Bacon]

7. The same king of care McKeating® gets???????

Let me get this straight.

Mc Keating® will give me $1,800 a year to buy health insurance...wait a second...I remember these Republicans tearing George Mc Govern apart for wanting to give me $1,000 a year back in 1972...well at least it is more...now I got to go on the Internet and buy a policy...BUT I got diabetes, a pre-existing condition...he has NO provision to give me leverage for that because they are going to charge more...wait a second...then he says that if I need help the churches will help pay my bills...oh no, the preacher is too busy collecting that faith based tax money for his new BMW...well there is always Montel Williams and that big orange bus that stooge bullshits about...oh but the company that makes my name brand drug doesn't participate...well there is always plan B, find your way to Canada and beg for asylum...

[zanne]

10. I think a good strategy for us would be to ask...

"How much would John McCain have to pay for a good health insurance policy if he didn't already have one"? He's in his 70's and has cancer. He benefits from a very good insurance policy that ALL of US pay for with our taxes, but he's proposing to deregulate the insurance industry even further. We all know how well deregulation has worked out.

The fact is, John McCain is practically uninsurable. Were it not for Medicare, many people his age would not have any health insurance at all.

[NotThisTime]

9. Three minutes... it will air any second now....