McCain wants to see you sick and big pharm get rich
McCain Blocks Women's Health
McCain voted to axe the Title X family planning program. The program provides millions of women with health care services ranging from birth control to breast and cervical cancer testing.
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McCain consistently votes ‘NO’ to programs intended to help the poor and needy of the world, mostly women and children. Example – he voted to stop funds for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), a resource that does not promote abortion but rather provides family planning services.
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What a liar – he DOES NOT KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE TO NOT HAVE HEALTHCARE! He’s had FREE Medical Care on YOUR TAX DOLLAR – Since the day he was born!!!
Health Care Reform
McCain is proposing a radical transformation of our health care system. He envisions a system where most Americans lose the care they get through their jobs, and instead shop for health insurance on their own. His policies would make it difficult for states to ensure minimal consumer protections on insurance plans. As a result, the 158 million Americans who currently get health care through their job would be at risk of having to deal directly with the insurance companies in a highly deregulated market to get insurance. This also means that tens of millions of Americans with preexisting conditions, such as cancer and diabetes, would be likely to find coverage much more difficult to find and expensive to afford. Some health insurance plans have started classifying Cesarean sections as a preexisting condition and denying coverage to individual women on that basis.
The McCain plan also envisions insurance plans that will make health care more expensive in the hopes that patients will use less of it. Studies show, however, that higher costs lead families to avoid necessary care as well as wasteful care. In particular, higher costs undermine effective preventive care and care for chronic diseases that can bring down overall health care costs.
McCain Avoids Answering Women's Health Care Issue
Children’s Health Care
In September of 2007, McCain followed President Bush’s lead in opposing the reauthorization of the successful State Children’s Health Insurance Program. SCHIP provides critical support for children in working families, who comprise 86 percent of the children who get health care through the program. SCHIP is particularly important to families in rural and urban areas, covering one in every three children in rural areas and one in every four children in urban areas. It also has contributed to significant reductions in uninsured rates among children of color. Sixty-seven percent of unmarried women, versus 53 percent of the electorate, would be much more likely to support a candidate who advocates expanding SCHIP and Medicaid to cover every American child.
McCain, however, opposed legislation last year to cover an additional 3.2 million uninsured children. The bipartisan bill passed with the support of 18 Republican senators, but Mc- Cain joined President Bush in opposing it. McCain defended the president’s veto as “the right call” in a CNN interview last October.
