John McCain's Health Care Plan Based On Same Policies That Are Causing Wall Street Meltdown

WASHINGTON, DC - Every day, another financial institution shutters its doors.  Over 600,000 thousand U.S. jobs have been lost so far this year. Gas, food, and health care prices are through the roof.  The writing is on the wall: the American economy is teetering on the edge of collapse,and American families are paying the price.

But despite the mounting evidence that deregulation has been a major contributing factor in the current financial crisis, John McCain wants to implement the same, failed Bush-McCain economic policies on ourhealth care system.

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Largest Health Care Union Details How McCain’s Plan Would Make It Harder for Americans to Get Coverage

As part of an extensive campaign to educate voters about where John McCain stands on the issues, SEIU today released a review of some of his disastrous health care proposals.  The research will be shared with the more than 500,000 health care voters SEIU has identified through its Americans for Health Care campaign, as well as other voters, union members and community allies. 

As the research shows, McCain’s latest ideas for health care would actually make obtaining coverage more difficult for the average working family and cause health care costs to go up for millions of hardworking Americans.

The full report can be read online as a PDF at seiu.org.

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Exeter, New Hampshire – As Senator John McCain returns to New Hampshire for the first time since clinching the Republican presidential nomination, Health Care Voters will greet him at his Exeter "Thank You" Town Hall to congratulate him and continue to pressure him to fill in the many gaps in his health care proposal.

In his nomination acceptance speech on March 4th, Sen. McCain said: “I will campaign to make health care more accessible to more Americans with reforms that will bring down costs in the health care industry without ruining the quality of the world’s best medical care.”

But for the over 75,000 Health Care Voters here in New Hampshire, “more” isn’t enough –- we need a president who will ensure every American has access to quality, affordable health care. Currently, over 47 million Americans do not have health care coverage, including 150,000 New Hampshire residents.

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