I have a serious question, and I'm curious why it hasn't been asked...

[jsbowden]

McCain's health care plan is a 5k tax credit.

My question is this:

How does this help families who are so poor they already don't pay taxes?

Seriously. Why hasn't one single reporter asked him or Palin this question? A five thousand dollar tax credit isn't going to give them the money to buy health insurance. We're talking about people who just worry about making rent and eating. And are the folks most likely to end up sick.

If someone has, and I missed it, what was the answer?

The rich stay healthy and the sick stay poor...
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Comments

[kjn]

Except that then you loose out on that the US political culture is heavily slanted to the right compared to most other industrialised countries (I'm excluding Japan and Korea) here, due to the single-party system they've ended up with), including a historical comparison with itself. In the late 19th century, eg, the political forces for social and labor reforms in the US were just as strong and as organised as anything in Europe.

Or to take a more recent example, compare Eisenhower's administration with the administrations from Reagan forward.