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[Member Posts] OBAMA RESPONDS TO AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS: Specifically, my plan will: (1) establish a new public insurance program, available to Americans who neither qualify for Medicaid or SCHIP nor have access to insurance through their employers, as well as to small businesses that want to offer insurance to their employees; (2) create a National Health Insurance Exchange to help Americans and businesses that want to purchase private health insurance directly;
[2008Central.net] McCain Press Release: John McCain’s Jobs For America Economic Plan: John McCain believes that this is too long to wait, and we need to commit significant federal resources to the science, research and development that advance this critical technology. Once commercialized, the U.S. can then export these technologies to countries like China that are committed to using their coal - creating new American jobs and allowing the U.S. to play a greater role in the international green economy.
[Matt Ortega] Critics: McCain Economic Plan Light on the Details: McCain also proposes a one-year freeze on the growth of non-defense government programs, which might cut the deficit by all of 2% to 3%. On defense, he says he would steer any peace dividend from concluding the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan to deficit reduction.
[sodahead - Nina ~cob's Answers & Comments] Issue by Issue Comparison of McCain & Obama. Who Do You Agree With?: McCain voted FOR amending the ABM Treaty to allow the deployment of the missile defense system (1996), FOR banning chemical weapons (1997), AGAINST prohibiting same-sex basic training (1998), FOR a military pay raise (1999), FOR deploying National Missile Defense (1999), FOR cutting nuclear weapons to below START levels (1999), FOR another round of military base closures (1999), AGAINST adopting the Comprehensive Test ban Treaty (1999), FOR the authorization for the use of force in Iraq (2002), AGAINST restoring $565M for statesâ€♠and portsâ€â™
[Obsidian Wings] Lie To Me, Baby: Still have no idea how you can call it "Politico's prognostications" while admitting that you clicked through to the pdf, unless you think that the Politico made up some predictions and then put them into pdf form with the McCain campaign's imprint.
[Disaboom] Medicare and Your DME supplies the new policy that will control you: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s so-called “competitive bidding” program has been an unnecessary and complicated auction for health care services since its inception.CMS created the program with the intention to cut costs for .
[INSIDE 2008 POLITICS] MCCAIN’S ECONOMIC PLAN: On the Housing crisis: John McCain proposes a manageable loan for those DESERVING American families or homeowners to trade a burdensome mortgage. This loan is going to be only available for homeowners with trouble paying their primary home mortgage.
[The Quagmire] What I Believe: You are also prohibited from Medicare and Medicaid if you smoke. Smoking is a choice. Choices have consequences. Presidential Veto. Line item veto. This will kill pork-barrel politics. This must be done. Immigration. ...
[Simon Conway's Orlando Real Estate Blog] DING! DING! Florida property tax round five!: Other revenue options could include raising the tax on cigarettes (which cause a disproportionate share of Medicare and Medicaid costs to Florida) and a tax on Internet purchases (which could generate $3 billion in revenue to the state
[squarestate.net - Front Page] Morgan Carroll: the first SquareState Small Donor Committee candidate: In the meantime I have carried bills to provide whistleblower protections for health care workers reporting substandard medical care (HB 07-1133), create medical homes for children in Medicaid & CHP (SB 07-130), allow injured workers to choose / change their doctor (HB 07-1178), creating public notice of all insurance rate hikes (HB 07-1234), the Michael Skolnik Medical Transparency Act (HB07-1331) and to bring prior approval and transparency for ALL health insurance rates in Colorado (FAIR ACT HB 08-139).
[Walash's Weblog] McCain Sets a New Record: 10 Flip-Flops in Two Weeks: He also opposed three separate emergency funding measures providing relief to Katrina victims, including the extension of five months of Medicaid benefits. And as ThinkProgress pointed out, “until traveling there one month ago, .
[What is that smell?] Bush's fault: Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts in 2009, sending us back to 1999 levels. It is amazing how many people that fall in to the categories above think Bush is screwing them, .
[Walash's Weblog] A Primer On Five Of McCain’s Top Lobbyist Cronies: John Green and his lobbying firm have taken $6.95 million from the telecommunications industry since 1999 to lobby on a variety of issues, including retroactive immunity for telecom companies that cooperated with Bush’s program of spying on American citizens, efforts to prevent workers from joining unions, and issues surrounding competition in and taxes on telecom companies. John McCain served as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over all telecom issues, from 1997 - 2001 and from 2003-2005.
[LEGALEYES] US TAXATION - News - taxvox: Today's Washington Post takes Senator John McCain to task for promising unsustainable tax cuts, including making permanent President Bush's tax cuts, repealing the AMT, making permanent the research and experimentation tax credit, cutting the top corporate tax rate from 35 to 25 percent, and allowing businesses to immediately write off all capital investments (rather than depreciating them over time). He has also proposed to require a super-majority vote in Congress for any tax increases.
[Walash's Weblog] A Primer On Five Of McCain’s Top Lobbyist Cronies: It came after Congress had repealed a 1976 law that forbade any assistance to rebel groups in Angola and led directly to an authorization for $15 million in military assistance, including Stinger missiles.”
[Take Political Action] McCain Sets a New Record: 10 Flip-Flops in Two Weeks: “I think that presidents have the obligation to obey and enforce laws that are passed by Congress and signed into law by the president, no matter what the situation is,” McCain said. The Globe’s Charlie Savage pushed further, asking , “So is that a no, in other words, federal statute trumps inherent power in that case, warrantless surveillance?” To which McCain answered, “I don’t think the president has the right to disobey any law.”
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