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McSame Blooper at Armstrong Cancer Summit: "There would be no limits on premiums"

Posted by nyceve on July 26, 2008 - 9:59am

 But this time, he was alone, there was no Joe Lieberman to whisper in his ear. McSame doesn't have a clue about the economy, Iraq, Sunni, Shia, the Anbar Awakening--now add to the McSame catalogue of cluelessness, the collapse of the U.S. healthcare system. 

The mind reels at Mr. McSame's ignorance, and Lance Armstrong should be ashamed of himself for not vigorously challenging him.

 

 

I've spent the morning reviewing some video clips of McSame's appearance at the Lance Armstrong Cancer Summit.

It's a treasure trove. This one The entire event should inspire fear in the hearts of all Americans.

Either the "presumptive nominee" had another senior moment, or just add the collapse of the U.S. healthcare system to the long list of catastrophes this moron doesn't have a clue about.

"No limits on premiums", you really said this, McSame?  You bet, just ask any American, we all know about no limits on premiums. I pay $686.00 a month for junk insurance. The American people don't need a tired has-been like John McSame telling us about "no limits on premiums.

 

 



Here's another McSame healthcare curveball, all in a one minute. This is scary stuff.

 "Allow cooperation among states in the purchase of insurance".  This is code speak for the infamous and despicable Enzi Bill, which the Republicans deceptively named the Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization and Affordability Act of 2005 and had it become law (God forbid),  would have thrown even the most modest state health insurance consumer protection laws out the window.

In 2006, Mr. Bush and the U.S. House tried to pass legislation to allow associations to offer health coverage to their small-business members.

It was a bogus attempt to help small businesses buy cheaper health insurance. Many state officials saw right through the hoax because it  would have stripped states of their power to regulate carriers and dictate what insurers must cover. For example, in New York where I live, insurers must pay for yearly mammograms if you're over a certain age. Had Enzi become law, good bye to mammograms which insurers must pay for in New York. Just as an aside, you want to know what my insurer pays for a mammogram? $16.00, that's right $16.00.

At the time, the Republicans were trying to foist this crap Enzi on the American people, at least 39 state attorneys general, three governors and 16 state insurance regulators objected to the legislation. Thankfully it died an ignoble death.  But make no mistake, this is what McSame is talking about.

One minute and 14 seconds of deceit--nothing but lies.

 

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One option: I would grieve but then I would leave

Submitted by Donna Smith - S... on July 26, 2008 - 11:43am.

This is one of the most horrifying 77 seconds of video and audio I have seen yet during this campaign.

Every American who cares even a little about the future of this nation and future generations should target McCain for defeat based on this message alone. And listen to his cruelly deceptive language touting a "guaranteed access program." He'll sell many middle class -- but blindly right-wing -- folks the means to their own demise by telling them he's protecting competition -- you know, that good old American competition.

Let's see. The lean, mean fighting machine insurance companies will thrive under his vision. And how exactly does an insurance company become leaner and meaner in this market driven model?

No limit on premiums? Fewer regulations? Well, my God, let's just let the poor dumb working class folks like my husband die if they get sick. But let's first make sure they lose all they worked for while their health is slipping away ... then let's let them die with lousy, over-priced private insurance.

If we allow this to happen to our nation and to one another, I am afraid that many with on-going health concerns would have no option if we wanted to live with dignity but to leave our country.

This man ought to thank God and the American taxpayers every day of his life that when his cancer struck three times and for all but four of his years on this planet, we have covered his healthcare with our hard-earned dollars. And he has the nerve -- no actually the suspension of soul -- to tell the rest of us our health will depend on a competitive market that has already shown its true colors for millions?

101,000 people are dead in just the last year due to this crisis, but I guess McCain and his cohorts see those dead just as one of the costs of doing business in their America. Utterly foolish, utterly immoral, utterly selfish and completely un-American. Letting hard-working, middle class people suffer and become poor due to health issues is even fiscally stupid.

Isn't it disgusting how the rich and influential cancer survivors often cannot even lower themselves to see how different their outcomes might have been if they had no insurance or junk insurance like more than 30 percent of the American public?

How far can people be pushed? How many dead will be enough? How many broken families and futures will satisfy the thrist for profit?

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It's all about $$$ to the GOP...

Submitted by FreedomFighter on July 26, 2008 - 8:08pm.

...and it always has been, and likely always will be.

With the exception of the years he spent as a POW, which I wouldn't wish on anyone, McCain has always been covered by GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE. He was born to a Naval officer, graduated from the Naval Academy, spent most of his life on active duty Navy service, and then went into the Navy Reserves when he was elected to the Senate. At no time, except for his POW years, was he ever without health care. He could go to any Navy, Air Force, Army or US Public Health Service physician, dentist, etc., and receive care - all paid for by the taxpayers. When he was elected to the Senate, he became a Federal employee - covered by taxpayer-paid health care. And, as someone who has been the beneficiary of Air Force health care, I can tell you it was quite good.

The Republicans are so focussed on "profit" and "the market" that they could care less about what people not in their tax bracket have to deal with.

They've always been good at exploiting the fear of "socialism" and exalting "the market". Ronald Reagan did it back in the 1950s, Rush Limbaugh did it in 1994, and McCain is doing it today.

Universal health care is NOT "socialised medicine"!

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Memory GAP-No limits on premiums??

Submitted by lucretiamott on July 27, 2008 - 6:16am.

Senator McCain's new program "GAP" is another bogus Trojan Horse program designed to allow the insurance corporations a "Guaranteed Access Program" to our bank accounts. I am not sure if this just another careless mistake or the Senator is determined to re-assure the insurance lobbyists that they can continue to rob patients blind if he, God forbid, is elected President of the United States.

No limits on insurance premiums translates into allowing no over-sight at all nor government restraint on the insurance corporations. They will be allowed free and unfettered access to charging as much and more for our health care. Under McCain, only the rich, like himself, will be allowed access to care.

Such plans are a true McCain memory GAP as John forgets that he as a Senator has free, portable health care, including U.S. military hospitals, whenever he gets sick. The rest of us are limited to one system and must wait for approval by our insurance and are limited within the risk pool.

McCain's program will ensure that insurance companies will get richer at the public's expense. $50,000 Mammograms anyone! Million dollar appendectomies aren't too far fetched under McCain's memory GAP program that forgot why the public hates health insurance corporations to begin with.

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It occurs to me that the McMemory gap...

Submitted by DeAnn McEwen RN on August 3, 2008 - 11:28pm.

is that he forgot that he wasn't supposted to admit the fact about the insurance premiums in public.

The truth of the matter is the fact that, "there would be no limits on premiums," under the McSame plan.

Are the insurers going to demand that he return their campaign contributions? The least they could expect in return for all that blood money is his silence about their real motives for supporting his candidacy: a great return on their investment in him, at the expense of the rest of us.

Kinda makes ya wonder about that Iraqi 100 year war remark too. What else is there that Halliburton, Blackwater, and Bush don't want us to know?

Sen. McCain claims he's ready to lead, but where? Down the same path? We've been there and done that for eight long years.

No thanks, on behalf of my patients, our profession, or any mother's son or daughter.

"We commit ourselves to any wrong or degradation or injury when we do not protest against it." Lillian Wald,(1867-1940), American Social Reformer/Founder Public Health Nursing

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there would be no limits on suffering and profits...

Submitted by RN4MERCY (not verified) on July 29, 2008 - 9:20pm.

It's obvious the McSame plan will continue to funnel public money away from public benefit programs to the corporate greed machines.

"...State and Federal resources to help in the purchase of coverage for those hardest to insure."

"...ridding the market of both needless and costly regulation."

This video clip is more creepy than those B-Grade horror flicks; can't you just hear the words, "they're baaaa-aack" and want to scream?
We know the ending, because we've watched the replay over and over and over again.

"hardest to insure" = "more costly to care for."
"needless and costly" = "if it costs us money, you don't need it."

The only way to stop the madness is a single-payer national health plan.

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