If it is still unclear why opening up health care and Social Security to the free market is a bad idea, then you’re really a lost case. In the Sept/Oct. issue of Contingencies, McCain stated:
Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.
Still stupid after all these years.
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