McCain’s healthcare plan isn’t perfect, but it’s got a good solid design. We should look at the good parts and not find fault with the weaker parts. The democratic process of negotiating a final plan insures that the weak parts never make it to the final legislation anyway.

The best part of his plan is it creates a fundamental shift away from a healthcare plan that is subsidized by employers. It does this by providing a cash benefit of $5,000 annually for families to purchase health insurance or $2,500 for an single person to purchase healthcare insurance.

This means that people will no longer be tied to an employer for healthcare. Despite the improvements in portability, I know of someone at my company that cannot change change jobs, because they have a preconceived condition.

It also means that the vast majority of Americans will be able to get health insurance regardless of their job or the company they work for. Probably every person in the United States has a family member that doesn’t have healthcare. My self employed brother embodies the American entrepreneurial spirit and sadly he doesn’t have healthcare. McCain’s healthcare plan will change this inequity.

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Are you in favor of subsidized medical care?
Or, which person in this picture doesn’t deserve to be able to afford health insurance?
What consideration have you given to this topic? I’ve decided that the question is NOT do we want subsidized healthcare, but who do we want to provide the subsidy.

When looking at the healthcare issue, the population can be divided into two very different groups. Those that have healthcare insurance and those that don’t. The overwhelming majority of people with healthcare get it through their employer and their employer negotiates competitive premiums and, in most cases, the employer pays for a portion of the employee’s healthcare. Ooops! Isn’t that the definition of “subsidized”? Someone else is paying a portion of the employees cost of healthcare. And as everyone knows the group that doesn’t have healthcare works in unskilled, low paying jobs or is unemployed or self employed.

It’s about time that this country switch from an employer subsidized healthcare program to a government subsidized healthcare program. Don’t be fooled and scared by the scare mongers about socialized medicine. because subsidized healthcare is not the same as socialized healthcare. We need a subsidization plan that is available to all Americans and not just the fortunate few that have a skilled, high paying jobs.

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