While Democrats compete over who has the better plan to expand health care insurance to the uninsured, Republican John McCain is launching a new TV ad aimed at the rest of the country - those with insurance and paying ever higher health care costs.
McCain's new ad, being aired in Iowa, backs up his campaign tour this week pitching his proposal to control health care costs.
"The problem with health care in America is not the quality of health care, it's the availability and the affordibility," McCain says in the ad. "And that has to do with the dramatic increase in the cost of health care.
"Let's give every American family a $5,000 refundable tax credit so that they can go out across state lines and get the insurance policy that suits them best."
A $5000 refundable tax credit? How does this work, especially for folks with a very low income who don't pay much tax - is any? I'd like to know more. This issue is huge. I have had cancer, exhausted my 36 mos. on cobra, and had to go to Maryland Health Ins. Plan. I chose a plan costing $195 a month with $2600 deductible hoping to win in the years I don't need surgery, etc. Today I received a notice that the premium goes up to $205 and the deductible goes up to $4600 for a total output of $7000 a year. My Gross Adjustable income last year was $6200. I guess I have a choice: Have health coverage and stop paying my bills or eating or drop the insurance and spend my small amount of money on natural alternatives and good food. I think I am about to become and health care drop-out. The greedy SOB's need a wake-up call. The big medical conglomerations and pharmaceuticals are out of control.
Posted by: Sue in MD | April 30, 2008 at 09:31 PM