What is McCain smoking? Either he's WAAAAAaaaaay off base, or he has some plan that's way too complex for simpletons like journalists to understand.
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In a speech at a cancer research center here, McCain dismissed his rivals' proposals for universal health care as riddled with "inefficiency, irrationality and uncontrolled costs." He said the 47 million uninsured Americans will get coverage only when they are freed from the shackles of the current employer-dominated system.
Ending employer-based care
McCain's prescription would seek to lure workers away from their company health plans with a $5,000 family tax credit and a promise that, left to their own devices, they would be able to find cheaper insurance that is more tailored to their health-care needs and not tied to a particular job.
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This looks like a recipe for disaster if you ask me. Consumerism will go up, health plan enrollment will go down, and after inflation catches up with the tax breaks, we'll all be just as badly off as we were before, only worse because our employers will no longer provide health insurance.