FactCheck Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
Tommy Christopher
Contributor
Posted:
10/3/08
In a recent article, cited again today regarding last night's Vice Presidential Debate, FactCheck.org missed big on the issue of John McCain's call to deregulate health insurance. 
Barack Obama, in an ad, and Biden, at the debate, said that McCain wants to deregulate health care, much the same as banking deregulation. FactCheck claims that McCain only intends to "open up" health insurance to allow competition between states, nothing more:
In order to allow such "competition," companies would need to be exempt from state regulations, regulations that protect consumers from being denied coverage, or being canceled if they get sick, or from being sold worthless insurance that doesn't cover anything once you read the fine print.
References to quashing health care regulations are all over McCain's website, as well, so to pretend that Mac is some wide-eyed dreamer who just wishes insurance companies could fall all over themselves to charge you less is complete fantasy.
Barack Obama, in an ad, and Biden, at the debate, said that McCain wants to deregulate health care, much the same as banking deregulation. FactCheck claims that McCain only intends to "open up" health insurance to allow competition between states, nothing more:
Note that McCain began by speaking of buying insurance "across state lines." His comparison with banking regulation was limited to "opening up the insurance market" to "nationwide" competition to "provide more choices" to consumers.They claim that Obama took McCain's remark out of context, while missing crucial context themselves. Saying that all McCain wants to do is "erase artificial boundaries" between states is like saying, "I don't want criminals to roam the countryside, I just want to unlock their cells so they can compete for the best one."
In order to allow such "competition," companies would need to be exempt from state regulations, regulations that protect consumers from being denied coverage, or being canceled if they get sick, or from being sold worthless insurance that doesn't cover anything once you read the fine print.
References to quashing health care regulations are all over McCain's website, as well, so to pretend that Mac is some wide-eyed dreamer who just wishes insurance companies could fall all over themselves to charge you less is complete fantasy.
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