McCain Angry and Frustrated Again; Urges Obama to "Scrap" Healthcare plan and "Start Over"

[SuperTrouper]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/06/mccain-scrap-health-care-bill-and-start-over.html

EXCERPTS:
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, called on President Obama and Democrats in Congress to "scrap the current bill and start over."

McCain pointed to a nonpartisan cost estimate of $1 trillion over ten years for the major portion of healthcare reform suggested in a bill floated by Sen. Edward Kennedy's Health Committee and said the cost was too high for American taxpayers, especially since the nonpartisan review foresaw $23 million would lose their current insurance plans under the proposal.

"How we going to pay for that, Mr. President.," asked McCain on the senate floor. "How are we going to pay for that?"

"The CBO letter should be a wakeup call for all of us to scrap the current bill and start over," said McCain. "Start over in a true bipartisan fashion," said McCain, although his idea for healthcare reform would not find much support among Democrats.

McCain also addressed Jake Tapper's report that stiff cost estimate – which McCain thinks is low-ball – has the White House distancing itself from Kennedy's health committee plan.

"Well where is the administration's bill?" asked a frustrated McCain. "We're supposed to be enacting legislation before the end of July. Where is the administration's bill?"

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has given daily speeches on the Senate floor blasting the public option for weeks.

[Captain Hilts]

1. McCain has been on govt.-provided healthcare his ENTIRE life. I'll have what he's having. nt

[City Lights]

13. !

:thumbsup:

[Captain Hilts]

14. He's a navy kid like I was. In fact, my parents knew his parents pretty well. nt

[sarah553807]

16. ...

:fistbump:
and so will I

[O is 44]

18. Ha, how very true...

He needs to shut up already. I'm sure Obama will get right to that..NOT, oh and has he told him to bomb Iran yet today? sheesh McCain I hope Arizona votes you out in 2010.

[Wapsie B]

2. How are we going to pay for the 2-3 trillion Rumsfeld claims to have lost in Iraq?

Answer me that repugs.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Someone give the man a magic brownie! N/T

[DJ13]

4. Hey, for once McCain has it right!

“If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ahead with a single-payer system,” Obama told some 1,800 people at a town-hall style meeting on the economy.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/08/19/obama-touts-single-payer-system/
Obama Touts Single-Payer System for Health Care - Washington Wire - WSJ

[SuperTrouper]

6. I am for a single-payer system. It will put an end to the parasitic billing companies

that are needed by providers who have no time to bill over 100's of insurances which have so many different rules.

[high density]

17. McCain wants something cheaper

He doesn't want something better. By the way, don't take Obama out of context, please.

But Obama repeated that he rejects an immediate shift to a single-payer system. “Given that a lot of people work for insurance companies, a lot of people work for HMOs. You’ve got a whole system of institutions that have been set up,” he said at a roundtable discussion with women Monday morning after a voter asked, “Why not single payer?”

“People don’t have time to wait,” Obama said. “They need relief now. So my attitude is let’s build up the system we got, let’s make it more efficient, we may be over time—as we make the system more efficient and everybody’s covered—decide that there are other ways for us to provide care more effectively.”

[DJ13]

20. By the way, don't take Obama out of context, please.

I didnt, that was taken verbatim from the article I linked to.

You would have known that had you just clicked on it.
:eyes:

[DrToast]

5. McCain is such a small man....and I'm not talking about height. nt

Yeah, I know, prisoner of war, hero, etc.

But man, is that guy a sore loser.

[monmouth]

7. He's angry and frustrated at the fear it might work....n/t

[Wapsie B]

8. Exactly. The louder the cries from the gop the more you know they are very afraid

of a single payer system actually working. Once again they will be on the wrong side of history.

[Oregone]

9. I agree with McCain

Never thought Id post that. :)

But, ya know, for different reasons.

[DuDave]

10. who?

I mean really, who cares what McLame thinks?

[Clear Blue Sky]

11. McCain who? He is irrelevant...

[PVnRT]

12. John: Shut the hell up

You're no fiscal conservative; that got proven pretty well when you were exposed as a hypocrite during the election.

[zulchzulu]

15. The government-run healthcare McCain has is something we mere mortals don't deserve

Yeah, McCain has excellent government-run healthcare. Very nice stuff. And you can't have it!!! Neener neener neener!!!

:crazy:

[NewJeffCT]

19. It's good enough for Iraqis, though

we implemented universal health care in Iraq in the midst of occupying their country.

[DeschutesRiver]

21. Oh for g's sake John, put a fucking sock in it.

John, a war will come to us soon enough, and no, we don't need to go start one with "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb IRAN" just so that you can relive your fly boy days. Besides, you are so fucking old that when you ditch the next plane, you're gonna die along with it.

John, you need to face the fact that Americans deserve at least the same health care that they provide for you and your leeching clan. Health care that americans can afford is coming - might not be perfect out of the starting gate, but no Johnny, we aren't going to wait for some perfect pie in the sky plan to miraculously appear before us some day far in the future.

And yes, Johnny boy, some of the money to fund health care will likely come from your favorite sport, war funding. Deal with it, you cranky old sore loser. How are we going to pay for health care? Figure it out - that is your job, not to whine. I can't deal with much more of your whining, you old bastard.

[invictus]

22. LOL! Exactly!

nt