Here he goes... pandering to the liberals... sticking it to his party... being a maverick... but yet he wants to "pull the conservatives together"... ya know what... fuck off juan.
McCain Moves To Middle On Health Care
Mike Allen, Jonathan Martin
Tue Apr 29, 7:35 AM ET
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is proposing a greater federal commitment to people without health insurance on Tuesday, suggesting that it help funds states to set up non-profit risk pools to help Americans who are denied coverage or can't afford it.
McCain's health-policy experts provided a ballpark estimate of $7 billion a year for the new federal commitment.
"Cooperation among states in the purchase of insurance would … be a crucial step in ridding the market of both needless and costly regulations, and the dominance in the market of only a few insurance companies," McCain says in remarks prepared for delivery Tuesday morning in Tampa, Fla.
McCain is announcing his "Guaranteed Access Plan" on the second day of a "Call To Action" health-care tour that will later take him to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, and Colorado.
Until now, McCain has emphasized such conventional conservative measures as tax deductions and malpractice reform. His new stance moves him closer to where former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney was during the primary, an approach McCain had criticized.
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