Lost in all the Palin hoopla and Obama's speech, a story about McCain's so-called health care plan got brushed under the rug.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
So I was reading McCain's advisor talk about health care the other day:
John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a right-leaning Dallas-based think tank. Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain's health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort.
Then I recalled George W Bush saying something similar last year:
"The immediate goal is to make sure there are more people on private insurance plans. I mean, people have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room."
Looks like ER doctors disagree:
The organization representing the nation's 26,000 emergency medicine doctors fired back today at a John McCain campaign advisor who said, in effect, that as long as there are emergency rooms, no one in American is really uninsured.
"Emergency physicians can and do perform miracles every day, but taking on the full-time medical care for 46 million uninsured Americans is one miracle even we cannot perform. Access to care in the emergency department is no substitute for the comprehensive healthcare reform policy that should be at the heart of the platform of any presidential campaign."
Why is this not making a big splash? I guess health care doesn't make the cover of Vogue.