Healthcare plans compared

Hat Tip to ARRA New Service and Bill Smith:

On health care, we have reports on each candidate’s plan:
The Obama Health Care Plan: More Power to Washington
Very little in the Obama health plan is new or original. A number of its policy initiatives are recycled from the ill-fated Clinton health plan of 1994 and the Kerry health plan of 2004 and bear a stark resemblance to a more detailed proposal by the Common wealth Fund, a prominent liberal think tank. In general, the Obama plan would give the federal government even more control of health care dollars and decisions—a radical departure from the decentralized decision-making system that characterizes employer-based insurance and state-based insurance regulation.

The McCain Health Care Plan: More Power to Families
McCain's vision for health care reform is underscored by a principled commitment to personal freedom. He focuses on reforming the system to empower individuals and families to make health care decisions and to control their health care dollar.

Having owned a small business, I can attest to the decisions faced by small business owners. Allowing employees to purchase their own insurance, so it's portable and private, is a much better idea for job creation and power for families. They don't want their employers having all that information or that power of them if they decide to change jobs. Giving employees a tax credit is terrific, letting government control that money is terrible. Easy call me for me: John McCain is for families making up their own minds about health care.

All lines lead back to Barack

Spotlight - McCain Bloggers stay on message

While many of the Obama people are attacking Senator McCain for being "angry" or "old" or whatever attack ... John McCain bloggers are continuing to ask for positive things from our nation's leaders. There really is a difference.

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McCain gaining on Obama - dead heat now

Presidential Race tightens to 4 points

Let's not choose some weird poll, let's go with Gallup today! The headline suggests that the race has tightened to 7 points, not the 4 points in my headline, but dig in and read the whole post to get the gist of the estimation they are doing.

The first likely voter model is based on Gallup's traditional likely voter assumptions, which determine respondents' likelihood to vote based on how they answer questions about their current voting intention and past voting behavior. According to this model, Obama's advantage over McCain is 50% to 46% in Oct. 9-11 tracking data

So call just about anyone and Obama has only a 7 point nationwide lead, call likely voters and it's even less at 4%. This after the media told the world that Obama was running away with it, this after the media suggested that "everyone" was more comfortable with untested and inexperienced Obama when confronting the complex issues in the credit markets.

Right! This race has been and will be a toss-up, the winner being the candidate who's core supporters show up on election day. Ohio is going to be 50-50 and with some liberal judges kicking in some help, holding polls open for extra hours, we may be 12 plus hours late before we have a winner.

Follow all McCain posts on social media

Dipity makes it easy, but McCain is getting beat on their "followers" so go to the site and sign up and vote McCain, I voted and moved the percentage 1% with my one vote. 100 of us could swing the entire poll.

Brady Quinn Notre Dame QB - with Palin and McCain

Obama is following along

Has it occurred to you that Barack Obama is quite the follower?

1. He wanted big tax increases, then when he realized this wasn't acceptable to the middle class, he moved the ball to only attack those making over $250,000. (Not really though since he also attacks capital gains which will affect millions of small business owners)
2. He was against oil drilling, until the whole #dontgo movement proved that a huge majority of Americans want drilling now. So he changed his tune.
3. He was against nuclear power, until again he listened to real Americans ask "why not" and now he's for nuclear power.
   
4. He wanted to spend billions and billions to "fix" lots of problems, many that government caused in the first place ... and now when he sees that Americans aren't all that sure government spending can fix anything ... he says he wants to cut? Cut what Barack? Cut the Energy Department? Cut the Education Department? Cut pay for Congress?
   

We often see politicians run to the center in general elections, but this is pretty amazing to watch, a grown man giving up on his liberal tendancies to get elected. Or is he really? Perhaps he's just talking and then he'll do what he's always done as a politician.