JBD

Biden's debate assertions vs. actual truth. I've seen some lists with a dozen more, but these are the ones McCain's campaign came up with, so they are probably unquestionably wrong. A pretty poor record. Had Palin had even one lie as big as any of these, she would have been hammered mercilessly.

Here's a nice little breakdown of what Biden said last night about McCain's health care proposals, and what the proposal actually says.

The McCain program sounds pretty good to me. One benefit not stated (that I've seen) is that the cost to business of administering the existing system would disappear. In my experience, the cost and hassle of maintaining employee benefits is significant, sometimes onerous, and always not what the company does for a living!

Imagine if your company had to buy and manage an insurance program for, say, groceries, or clothes, for everybody in the company. Crazy, right? Absolutely no way to deal fairly and efficiently with all the variables and complexities of  personal taste, family sizes, individual needs, etc.

But that's what happens now with health insurance, except that it would actually be easier doing something like groceries, since  there is no grocery equivalent to the large unavoidable costs associated with major surgery or a broken bone. That is the real role of insurance - to restore your covered losses, not to manage your expenditures.

Read the McCain plan. It's good.

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