Thursday, April 3, 2008
McCain's Economic Plan
This article is written from a different perspective. It is written from the point of view of Elizabeth Edwards, wife to John Edwards. Elizabeth Edwards was diagnosed with breast cancer and she claims that under McCain's economic plan, it "would do nothing to prevent insurance companies from denying coverage to those, like her and Mr. McCain, who have pre-existing medical conditions." McCain's response "was condescending and dismissive — a statement that Mrs. Edwards doesn’t understand the comprehensive nature of the senator’s approach, which would harness “the power of competition to produce greater coverage for Americans,” reducing costs so that even people with pre-existing conditions could afford care." The article continues to bash McCain's economic plan. I was wondering whether this really promotes the public into siding with the Republican party. The opposition is not disagreeing with McCain's economic plan, but his own party is doubting the plan. How does this make the Republican party look? I know many people in our class are liberal, but how does this change/ not change your view on the Republican party at the moment?
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Well, it really doesn't seem to help the Republican party at all. If his own party is going to be against his economic plan, then how is the rest of the country going to side with it? Of course, that is only one person, if she's in the minority in her dislike of the plan, then maybe it isn't quite so bad.
It doesn't promote the public into siding with the Republican party, it promotes the public into questioning the Republican party and where it's headed right now. McCain has already been declared the Republican nomination, and his own party members still don't support his plan. I've fine with this because the party members are just being honest about the plan and not just trying to beef up McCain. But at this point during a campaign, the Repubican Party should be doing all it can to make McCain look like a genius if they really want to win the election. But it is not uncommon for members in a party to disagree with other members on each other's policies. It's just that it shouldn't be happening right now at this point in the campaign.
From what I've been reading on the Internet, the Republican party was already not wholly united behind McCain, which is why they are attacking the Democrats as much as possible. However, I'm sure that once Obama or Clinton is elected, the Democratic party will also be split, so maybe in the end, the split loyalties will even out. maybe.
I'm not sure what the problem is with insurance companies denying coverage to people. They shouldn't be forced to insure anyone and everyone. If they want to refuse service to someone, that should be ok. It just doesn't make sense from an economic standpoint to me. If someone could explain how insurance companies could be "prevented from denying coverage" to people then I'd like to hear.
If insurance was run through the gov. and never going to happen plan! But I would say that if Republicans are questioning the plan and Democrats are not saying anything, either they approve or don't want to make a big deal about it and have McCain fix it to get more votes.
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