Campaign 2008: February 2008 Archives
So it's John McCain. It's not official, but there seems to be no way the remaining candidates (Huckabee) can overcome the momentum that McCain has attained.
Now that McCain has come out on top, we'll be looking at his positions on retirement issues to see what if anything changes as the message is tuned to beat the Democratic nominee.
At the point where Mitt Romney withdrew his candidacy, he had no votes in our poll. It was curious. For as much visibility he had as a top contender and the money spent on his campaign, no votes at all indicated little interest in his message, from our point of view.
A story in the NYT is the basis of a post that discusses President Bush's proposed cuts in payments to hospitals. They are pretty serious cuts in future funding, and the logic of the proposal is suspect, because it appears that private insurance is expected to make up the shortfall. We, and others, doubt that will happen.
The writer goes on to use this as an example of how bad it would be if Hillary Clinton's, or what he refers to as "Beltway Idiots" plans for health care succeed. We get the connection, but using a Bush plan as an example of how it's bad for the government to be responsible for anything would potentially have us take all responsibility for everything away from government. When an administration has low approval ratings like Bush-Cheney, and a track record for being wrong on predicting the outcome of their actions, one can forget that it doesn't have to be that way. In our history, we have had governments from both parties that, however briefly, had our best interests at heart, acted accordingly and gave us government that worked.
We hope the candidates from both parties remember that, during the campaign, and after.
From healthcarebs.com
Health Care BS - BUSH BOMBS AMERICA'S HOSPITALS
"Nationwide, well over half of the people who require hospital care are on Medicare and/or Medicaid. And, because hospitals lose money on these patients, they are in financial distress all across the country."
