Obama in VA, on health care: It's not that McCain doesn't care, "I just think he doesn't know"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

updated 28 minutes ago

Obama blasts McCain's health care plan as 'out of touch'

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/04/campaign.wrap/index.html



(CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama, campaigning Saturday in the battleground state of Virginia, lashed out at his presidential rival's plan to tackle health care reform.

In a Saturday morning radio address, Sen. John McCain said his administration would give every family a $5,000 tax credit to buy their own health insurance or keep their current plan. "And we will open up the national health care market to expand choices and improve quality," he said.

Obama, speaking at a rally in Newport News, Virginia, said it's not that McCain "doesn't care" about what people are going through, "I just think he doesn't know."

"That's the only reason I can think of that he'd propose a health care plan that is so radical, so out of touch with what you're facing and so out of line with our basic values."