McCain's health care finally explained

If you could post this in HRC and PUMA blogs and forums........... that would HELP.
THIS is what folks need to see! They only hear from O on details and his are lies.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/americans_deserve_a_real_healt.html

McCain is also turning off some republicans AND independants around here from what I've heard, so spread this. He's going down the wrong path by NOT addressing and EXPLAINING how he would make things better. I overheard some folks in Iowa who are PO'd with his current lines - they have heard enough of it:

he McCain-Palin solution is based three core principles. First, a person's ability to afford health care should not depend on whether they work for an employer who offers health insurance. Second, wealthy Americans with expensive health plans do not deserve a bigger tax benefit than working class Americans. And finally, workers should be able to pick the health care plan that best meets their needs, and they should be able to take it with them when they change jobs.

Our current tax code is fundamentally unfair and regressive. Lower income workers receive the least benefit, while wealthy Americans receive the most. Because tax rules are tied to employment (health care benefits paid for by employers are exempt from income and payroll taxes), if you leave your job, you leave your health care behind. Meanwhile, Americans who purchase their own health insurance generally do not receive a tax benefit.

Economists on the left and right agree that the status quo, which was set up in the 1940s, needs to change. The McCain-Palin solution would keep the employer deduction in place so employers would still have an incentive to sponsor health plans. They would provide a generous tax credit worth $2,500 for an individual and $5,000 for a family so all Americans could buy health insurance. Even the left-leaning Tax Policy Center has recognized that the change proposed by McCain-Palin will result in "a significant tax cut" for middle-class families.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104130/posts