John McCain’s Challenge
To see if he could get any health insurer to cover him, especially with his pre-existing conditions. If so, how much would it cost?
Chris Weigant:
John McCain should be taken at his word. He just gave a major speech in which he unveiled his “new” idea for how to fix health care in America (which is actually just recycled Bush policy). To prove he knows what he is talking about, I challenge him to be the first to voluntarily do what he is asking all Americans to do: give up his employer-based health care, and purchase his own health insurance on the open market as a private American citizen.
In McCain’s speech today, he said “the solution…isn’t a one-size-fits-all-big government takeover of health care.”
Of course, being covered by the VA all these years is certainly the clearest example of government-provided health care. Since McCain doesn’t believe this is the right solution, I agree with Weigant. McCain should try to obtain health insurance just like any other retired person with no access to a decent group health plan and specifically, a plan that will cover his previous melanoma diagnosis and his physical injuries suffered while held as a POW in Vietnam.
You game, Senator McCain?
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