Friday October 17, 2008, 1:17 pm
No surprise there - by picking Sarah Palin as VP, this guy nullified everything done to have women taken seriously and abandon the 'dumb blonde' stereotype for every woman. Maybe intelligent women are not Republican, but sjeees putting her in a high profile position really shows he doesn't value women.

Friday October 17, 2008, 1:30 pm
Excellent article. Thank you, Terrie.

Friday October 17, 2008, 1:56 pm
McCain doesn't care about our health. And Palin is all about abortion. So why didn't she make her daughter have one? I've already voted by absentee ballott. Thanks, Terrie.

Friday October 17, 2008, 8:28 pm
Ruud got it right - intelligent women Can't be RepubliCONs! It would be a giant step backwards!

Friday October 17, 2008, 10:13 pm
Excellent job he is doing. But it will continue after election or not.

Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:59 am
I insist... the US is so importan to the whole world that everyone should have the right to vote. And I wouldn't vote for this mummy & palin, of course.

Saturday October 18, 2008, 11:41 am
Thanks Terrie, for this article. I've seen many articles and have seen McCain on tv - he speaks for himself - he belittles women in all aspects.

Saturday October 18, 2008, 12:53 pm
McCain is ANTI-WOMEN everything. He still hasn't addressed the question relating to the fairness of Viagra being on Ins. formularies . while women's birth control isn't covered. He has the mind-set he was left with in Vietnam, PTSD ?, I don't want either of his party with their finger on the button.

Saturday October 18, 2008, 2:06 pm
McCain doesn't take women seriously, period. Hence his opposition to the Ledbetter Equal Pay Act, saying that the problem is that women need more education and training - even though the whole issue is pay discrimination against women who have as much experience and education as their male co-workers. Maybe McCain just doesn't think that's possible.

Saturday October 18, 2008, 4:23 pm
This man does not give women the respect they are due because he knows how resilient women are how strong they can be and last but not least how capable of handling any given situation. So bottom line as I see it - he is afraid of the power of women!!! Blessings.

Sunday October 19, 2008, 8:15 am
Some lady in the midwest got in trouble for putting an obama sign in her yard next to a mccain sign. But on the Obama sign, she put "Baby Killer" come on!! It's called women's health. He never killed any babies. and what about the nam war and any war? There were lots of our soldiers over there killing babies and children.

Only an ignoramus would do this, you wanna talk about baby killers, palin allows illegal kills non human infants shot in the head! SHE is the baby killer.

Sunday October 19, 2008, 8:43 am
Washington Post put together an excellent comparison chart on the tax cut proposals.

Obama's team has put together an online calculator so individuals and families can see how his economic plan would affect their taxes specifically.


I am amazed, and shocked, that no one seems to have read, or cares to report about John McCain's plans for seniors on Medicare!

The McCain plan was presented by his economic adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin in a prominent article in the Wall Street Journal of October 6th - just last week. Does no one here read that paper?

In short, McCain/Palin plan to pay for their health plan tax credits through $1.3 trillion in Medicare and Medicaid cuts over 10 years!

That would mean reductions in benefits for Medicare and Medicaid of nearly 30% a year for 10 years!

With this plan, retirees living on fixed (or declining) incomes can literally say goodbye to their healthcare benefits.

And, as the figures above show, the 2-year, $52.5 billion sop on capital
gains taxes John McCain proposed today (Tuesday, October 14th) represents just 4
percent (4%!) of the $1.3 Trillion McCain will take out of the pockets and
wallets of all retirees over the next 10 years with his Medicare-destruction
plan (*I urge all seniors to read the full article at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122315505846605217.html ).


Will you please get this information out to all seniors and retirees, so we can decide if we care to vote for the candidate who would gut our health care in such an irresponsible way?

Thank you!

McCain Plans Federal Health Cuts Medicare, Medicaid Spending Would Be Reduced to Offset Proposed Tax Credit...So McCain wants to cut Medicare and Medicaid, while seniors are losing multiple TRILLIONS of their retirement funds. This will play well in Florida for sure.

The McCain Plan for Health Insecurity




At the New England Journal of Medicine,
Dr. David Blumenthal reviews McCain's healthcare plans - and finds the same old Republican "I'm alright, Jack" philosphy. (h/t Avedon)

John McCain emerges not as a maverick or centrist but as a radical social conservative firmly in the grip of the ideology that animates the domestic policies of President George W. Bush. The central purpose of President Bush's health policy, and John McCain's, is to reduce the role of insurance and make Americans pay a larger part of their health care bills out of pocket. Their embrace of market forces, fierce antagonism toward government, and determination to force individuals to have more "skin in the game" are overriding — all other goals are subsidiary. Indeed, the Republican commitment to market-oriented reforms is so strong that, to attain their vision, Bush and McCain seem willing to take huge risks with the efficiency, equity, and stability of our health care system. Specifically, the McCain plan would profoundly threaten the current system of employer-sponsored insurance on which more than three fifths of Americans depend, increase reliance on unregulated individual insurance markets (which are notoriously inefficient), and leave the number of uninsured Americans virtually unchanged. A side effect of the McCain plan would be to threaten access to adequate insurance for millions of America's sickest citizens.

The main purposes of Mccain's plan appears to be to dump more money into private health insurer's coffers and enable insurers to dump bad risks (those currently covered but paying high premiums) onto the State by making insurance unaffordable for them:

In the individual market, administrative costs consume 30 to 50% of premiums, as compared with 12 to 15% in the large-group, employer-sponsored insurance market. The McCain plan, therefore, could cause administrative waste to skyrocket. Because of these high administrative expenses, and because insurers want to avoid sick people, individual health insurance tends to be less generous than employer-sponsored plans, requiring higher deductibles and copayments and offering less coverage of preventive and catastrophic care. Perhaps most worrisome is that many chronically ill patients who lose employer-sponsored coverage will have trouble finding any insurance at all in the individual market. The McCain plan calls for deregulating private insurance markets — eliminating, for example, state requirements that insurers offer plans to persons with preexisting conditions.

Sunday October 19, 2008, 8:45 am
Gayla, about McCain's mindset; I think it goes further back than Viet Nam. Seems to me that he never outgrew the "terrible twos." Spoiled Brat...Pitching Angry Temper Tantrums.

Sunday October 19, 2008, 4:33 pm

Blue, I have also been very concerned with McCain's "health care plan"
as well as his tax plan. Neither do anything to address those that need
help the most. It's appalling and as a parent of an adult child who
has a very serious health problem and is uninsured since she lost her
job due (unable to work), I am specifically looking for some help in the
area of health care.

There is none with McCain. His suggested $5000.00 rebate to pay for
insurance is for families. Single adults are to receive only $2,500.00
as a rebate. Additionally, it seems to be under debate as to whether
those rebates are for all Citizens or for taxpayers only. If for taxpayers
only, my adult daughter would not qualify as she is unemployed.

Last year, we looked into getting her Health Insurance and the cheapest we
found was $1200 a month. We didn't have an extra $14,000.00 a year to buy
it.

My daughter is now receiving monthly blood transfusions which are costing
$2,700.00 each time. If she were able to go back to work under McCain's plan,
that $2,500.00 rebate isn't even going to make a dent in what insurance would
cost for her.

She has been denied disability, although she is trying again. If she is able
to get on it, it would still be subject to McCain's budget cuts. In the meantime,
my husband and I pay what we can to help her.

Thank you Terrie.