Posted on 08/23/2009 2:32:13 PM PDT by neverdem
Wading into the debate on a national health care plan, Senator John McCain said on Sunday that one way for Democrats and Republicans to reach a compromise would be for President Obama to abandon a government-run insurance program for the nation’s 49 million uninsured.
Interviewed on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” Mr. McCain, the Arizona Republican and 2008 presidential candidate, said that a public plan would cause many Americans to lose their private health insurance. Although he was not asked to explain, opponents of a government-run plan have previously warned that many employers would scuttle private insurance for their workers if such a program were enacted.
“Certainly if you have it, you shouldn’t have to lose it,” Mr. McCain said of private insurance. “But under the president’s plan, you would have to lose it in my view because of the government option. I believe that one of the fundamentals for any agreement would be that the president abandon the government option.”
Last week, Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, said that a government-run plan was not essential to an overhaul, a concession to United States senators who say such a plan could not win the backing of a majority of the crucial Senate Finance Committee. The focus shifted to discussion of nonprofit medical co-operatives, which are popular in some Midwestern states and more palatable to conservatives. But outrage by liberals supporting a government plan has made the fate of that provision unclear.
Senator Charles E. Schumer, the New York Democrat and a member of the Finance committee, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that President Obama “believes strongly in a public option.”
He argued that a government plan was imperative because it would introduce competition in the industry. In 40 of the 50 states, he said...
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So, you want the entire subject to change. I don’t want the subject changed. The Republicans are playing this perfectly. Shouting from the rooftops that “no way, no how, we’re ever going to have a bill” would be stupid, and make THEM and not the bill and Obama’s constant bumbling the issue.
Who would have thought the RINO’s would want to “compromise” with total evil?
OK, don’t answer that
Note to McCain: Retire with honor, while you still have some.
Senator Judas will sell us out, yet...
NO COMPROMISE. NO BILL. NOTHING. RETIRE MCLAME YOU LOSER.
Compromise my ass. I want the federal government's long needle nose the hell out of it.
As for that RINO crap weasel McCain, if someone runs against him in the Republican primary, I will be donating to that person. Whatever respect and admiration he was entitled to for his past military service, he has long since used it up with his RINO behavior on important conservative issues.
What the law omits the regulations will restore.
The public option must be dropped period.
McCain, we don't need "bipartisan" compromise and we don't need you.
McCain aka Spector lite.
Yes, the public option isn’t an option, but John....be quiet.
Absolutely! Someone please tell this imbecile that WE DON'T WANT HEALTHCARE FROM THIS BUNCH! THEY CAN'T BE TRUSTED!!
In conferences where we decide what to do about our health, there is us (the patient) and the doctor. Our insurance company may have some input, so we chose our insurance company carefully.
We do not want the government being part of our health decision, AT ALL!
I think the only principle McCain lives by when he’s in his office is ‘compromise’.
They just don’t get it. McCain is the best example of RINO has-been’s who refuse to get out of the way.
We don’t want anything Washington comes up with — from either party. Unless the GOP is willing to join in with the rest of us trying to keep our Constitution and Bill of Rights in tact, they are part of the problem. So far they have been utterly pathetic
How many times and in how many ways does it have to be said. We don’t want any.
Washington needs to get to hell out of our business and get out of the way of our ability to provide for our selves and our families.
oh, well f*ck you!
Go work at your $50 per hour job picking lettuce and leave America alone.
In fact John, leave America!
Public Saays McCain Must Be Dropped for Compromise...
Agreed, but they are going to make you pay for that.
McCain remains resolutely positive that only government can fix the problems that government has created.
He is a firm believer that there is nothing wrong in this world that another federal regulation won't fix.
I am getting so tired of his ass.
Earth to McCain......SHUT UP. GO AWAY.... GET OFF MY TV.....
YOU ARE SO IRELIVANT I can’t stand to hear you speak.
Go away John, NO COMPROMISE! Don’t you understand? Americans want NO PART of Obamadeath care.
John McCain. The gift that keeps on giving.
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