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John McCain Wants To Cut Your Medicare And Medicaid Benefits
Posted on October 6, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, John McCain, Medicare and Medicaid, health care crisis | Leave a Comment
Retired? Plan on being retired at some point in the future? Don’t vote for John McCain:
First McCain said he would elimine the entire tax deduction for health insurance, in order to pay for his new tax credit. This would have paid for itself, but it would have done so by raising taxes on a lot [...]
Alarming Numbers
Posted on April 9, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Urban Institute, health care crisis, insurance | Leave a Comment
Our good friends at the Urban Institute are presenting a new way to look at the health care crisis: “22,000 adults aged 25 to 64 — twice the number of homicide victims — died nationwide in 2006 due to a lack of health insurance.” That’s beyond dreadful.
Expect to see variations of this figure in the [...]
