Subject: [big campaign] Re: McCain Fact Sheet on Health Care and Campaign Connections
From: David Donnelly <[email-masked]>
To: Paul Booth <[email-masked]>, big campaign <[email-masked]>, Alison Omens <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:05:50 -0400
List-Id: <bigcampaign.googlegroups.com>

Okay, Booths. Updated attached for all.

Have a good weekend.

DD

On 4/25/08 4:13 PM, "Paul Booth" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Here¹s a suggested set of points that rearrange and amplify the last two
> sections.  They cause the last four footnotes to be renumbered.
>  
> McCain¹s healthcare plan shifts costs from employers to workers.
>  
> * McCain would use tax code changes to encourage employers to stop providing
> health benefits for workers and force workers to buy their own insurance
> * McCain would institute a massive new tax on workers by taxing their health
> benefits. 
> * McCain promotes Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), which must be combined with
> very high-deductible health plans ($2,000 or more), leading to high
> out-of-pocket costs.
> * McCain¹s plan would give families a tax credit to buy insurance.  However,
> the tax credit would pay for only one-fourth to one-half of the average annual
> premium. 
> * As the Center for American Progress has reported, ³poorly designed tax
> credits could actually increase rather than decrease the number of uninsured
> by causing more high-risk people to lose group coverage than the number of
> low-risk people who gain individual-market coverage². [ftnt 11]
>  
> McCain¹s healthcare plan leaves Americans to fend for themselves in an
> insurance bureaucracy that puts profits before people.
>  
> * McCain¹s plan would leave patients at the mercy of the insurance companies
> by overriding state rules that protect consumers from company abuses.
> * For example, McCain would allow insurance companies to deny coverage to
> people with pre-existing conditions, the very people who need health care the
> most. 
>  
> McCain¹s healthcare plan won¹t cover the uninsured.
>  
> * McCain¹s plan will not cover all Americans, and that is not one of his
> stated goals. 
> * According to the Wall Street Journal, McCain¹s plan ³will focus on
> controlling costs rather than reducing the ranks of the uninsured.² [ftnt 9]
> The Census Bureau has reported that approximately 47 million, or one in seven
> American, lack health insurance. [ftnt 10]
>  
> McCain¹s healthcare plan protects drug company profits.
>  
> * In a major health care address promoted on his campaign website, McCain
> says: ³The problem is not that most Americans lack adequate health insuranceŠ.
> The biggest problem with the American health care system is that it costs too
> much.² [ftnt 8] 
> * However, McCain¹s plan does not go after one of the biggest reasons for
> skyrocketing costs‹the outrageous price of prescription drugs.  His plan will
> not allow the government to use its purchasing power to negotiate discounts
> with drug companies.
>  
> 
> 
> From: David Donnelly [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 1:25 PM
> To: David Donnelly; Paul Booth; big campaign; Alison Omens
> Subject: Re: [big campaign] Re: McCain Fact Sheet on Health Care and Campaign
> Connections
>  
> Recirculating with corrections (thanks again, Paul).
> 
> DD
> 
> 
> On 4/25/08 12:55 PM, "David Donnelly" <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Thanks Paul ‹ will do and recirculate. Appreciate your help.
> 
> DD
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/25/08 12:40 PM, "Paul Booth" <[email-masked]> wrote:
> The major change should be where there¹s a headline saying his plan ³lowers
> costs².  Actually it ³shifts² costs.  IŒve attached a leaflet we¹re using
> dissecting his policy proposals.
>  
> 
> 
> From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]]
> <mailto:[email-masked]%5d> On Behalf Of David Donnelly
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 11:38 AM
> To: 'big campaign'; Alison Omens
> Subject: [big campaign] McCain Fact Sheet on Health Care and Campaign
> Connections
> 
> All,
> 
> Attached is a document that our research team put together on McCain¹s
> connection to the health care and insurance industries, his fundraising,
> selected lobbyists, etc.
> 
> Feel free to use this, send around, etc.
> 
> One startling figure: McCain¹s campaign counts 38 lobbyists from the health
> care and insurance industries who are either on staff or raising money for the
> campaigns ‹ these 38 lobbyists have received more than $140 million in fees
> from their health or insurance clients since 1998.
> 
> David 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> 
>  
> 

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