Obama hits McCain on Medicare

Janet, Texas — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:07:30 GMT

Senator McCains medicare and healthcare plan will probably move a few more voters into Obama's court. I would not want to be on medicare where I don't receive quality care and it's hard to find a doctor to take it, and then turn around and maybe cut some of those benefits by 20%. I'd be afraid I'd have no healthcare benefits by the time McCain puts his spending freeze into place.

Obama hits McCain on Medicare

Nicholas: Minnesota — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:14:17 GMT

[I don’t think that’s right. In fact, it ain’t right.”]
--Somebody should tell the greatest orator of our generation that "ain't" ain't a word.
(Okay, now I'm just being smug.)

Obama hits McCain on Medicare

just the facts — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:17:04 GMT

hit em where it hurts Sen Webb... make her out to be the tired, mudslinging wench, she really is.

Obama hits McCain on Medicare

Gregory Peek, Birmingham, Alabama — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:20:04 GMT

McCain’s misrepresentation of “Joe the Plumber” typifies the fraud that is deeply woven into the entire McCain campaign.

McCain’s fraudulent representation of “Joe the Plumber” compares to his fraudulent representation (1) of Obama’s tax proposals, (2) of his own health care proposals and (3) of himself as the candidate of change.

The final word on the McCain campaign is fraud.

Obama hits McCain on Medicare

Tough Lady NC — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:21:05 GMT

John McCain does not have to worry about health care like the majority of us. He does not realize we are paying for his health care because he has been in office so long. My sister died of cancer in July. She worked hard her entire life. We needed medicare to help with the bills and we are grateful she had Medicare. Without medicare by brother in-law would have to sell the home they worked so hard for and file for bankruptcy. Senator Obama's Mother died of cancer in her early 50's. He knows what it is like to fight with insurance companies when you are dying.
Independent- I Already Early Voted for Obama-Biden.

Obama hits McCain on Medicare

marcia,san diego,ca — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:21:46 GMT

Having worked in the medical arena for 20 years, anyone can find that fewer and fewer drs want Medicare patients. The reimbursement just isnt there for them. They want something more stable. Omaba is promising this. McCain just wants to mess around with it just like he did with the deregulation on Wall St. With more and more seniors either now on Medicare or approaching Medicare age, we need more drs, not fewer. Just read some of the AMA articles telling that more and more drs dont want to get involved in Medicare issues as it isnt financially beneficial to them (paperword, claims,financial reimbursment,etc). They have financial responsibilites themselves such as homes,practices, and BIG student loan paybacks and their practices have a hard time making money off Medicare. Barak is right on this. McCain is too risky.

Obama hits McCain on Medicare

dp in PHX — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:22:09 GMT

As a mother of a child born with multiple heart defects I am voting for Obama because (amongst many other reasons) I know that it will be IMPOSSIBLE for my daughter to get insurance as an adult. Her defects are congenital and she has had 7 surgeries thus far. Thanks to modern medicine my daughter lives a fairly normal life and is a happy beautiful girl. But due to the current healthcare situation I was forced to declare bankruptcy before she turned five. The unpaid portion of her care totaled over a MILLION dollars. I consider myself fortunate, as I have good job, I am college educated, and am self-sufficient; but there is NO way I would EVER have been able to pay all of those bills. I had insurance. I had what many would consider GOOD insurance but in the face of a devastating illness it was not enough. It wasn’t nearly enough.

How in God's name, can we continue to say we live in the greatest country on Earth and yet leave so many people uncared for, in debt, bankrupt or destitute?

I am grateful for the life of my precious daughter, but I am saddened at what has become of so many people due to the healthcare crisis in this country. The last time my daughter was hospitalized I met a mother who was forced to make the most devastating decision I could have ever imagined possible... she had a very, very sick baby boy who would need extensive care for his entire life. But her insurance company had dropped her and she had lost her job because of all the time his illness had required her to take off work. She had to give up her child, make him a ward of the state in order to continue the care he would need to save his life. This story has haunted me for quite some time. How can this be? How is this story possible, in this day and age? John McCain’s healthcare plan will devastate my daughter’s chances of getting healthcare, and if he is elected, I will in all likelihood get dropped from my employer’s healthcare plan. Then none of us will be insured. As a parent what will I do? I do not have an answer and that alone keeps me up at night.

To all those parents out there who have yet to vote, yet to decide: I implore you--Look at your children. What wouldn't you do for them? What if I told you, your vote may very well save their lives?

Please consider. Vote Obama/Biden 08

God bless,
Debbie

Obama hits McCain on Medicare

Robert, Virginia — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:23:27 GMT

Jim Webb is a good man and advocate.

Obama hits McCain on Medicare

voter — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:27:16 GMT

keep saying this is fl and pa. the seniors will vote Obama after hearing McCain's plan to cut medicare and medicaid.

Obama hits McCain on Medicare

Barry, Riverside CA — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:34:56 GMT

This has been the elephant in the room since the Republican convention. If there is any one thing that defines the difference between Obama and McCain, it is the VP selection. Obama made an intelligent, carefully considered, choice that will complement his own decisions. McCain's choice was a ridiculous, ill-considered attempt to put show over substance which didn't even work to that end.

Obama hits McCain on Medicare

Becky, CA — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:35:43 GMT

Gov.Palin said yesterday in a NC fundrasier she loved to visit the "pro-America" areas of the country, of which North Carolina is one. No word on which states she views as unpatriotic.

I ma assuming California where I live, is probably "Anti-American". This is ridiculous, trying to divide us further and claiming only small towns are filled with patriotic people. I have nothing against small town folks. But please do not trash the rest of us. We are Americans too.

Obama hits McCain on Medicare

paul c — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:35:52 GMT

What do you expect?

McCain has to get money he's giving to the oil companies from somewhere.

This just goes to show how much McCain really cares about seniors.

Obama hits McCain on Medicare

Clara Kansas City, MO — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:35:55 GMT

I've been in meetings all day; notice no one mentioned the David Letterman show last night. Letterman OWNED McCain. Really punched him hard on the VP pick and ripped him pretty good on his "map" about where he was when he cancelled.

I thought it was a GREAT, hard hitting interview for the late night funny man. It will be interesting to see if Palin really does show up. I won't hold my breath.

Obama hits McCain on Medicare

katiec Pekin, IL — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:37:03 GMT

The decent republicans have to be concerned,
disgusted and upset about the way the republican
party is conducting the sleeziest campaign in our
countries history.
Mccain/palin are very dangerous for our country.
Our country cannot survive their being even
close to leading our country.
Middle class, we will be non existant if the
republicans get in office. They have shown
these last eight years how much they care
for us by nearly destroying us and our once
great nation.

Obama hits McCain on Medicare

anoldtimerforobama — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:37:12 GMT

Would it or would it not be nice if we had a media who would report all that these two would do? I mean, John says he would balance the budget by the end of his first term. Yeah, when pigs fly. What the hell would he get rid of, instead of the 18b pork that he talks so much about? What else is there? Bush has gotten rid of most of what we have paid for, you know, for roads, bridges, schools, medicare that I have paid for all of my life. And even now, with medicare, I can't afford to use it unless I spend several hundred dollars before they pay a dime. And don't tell me I waste it either, because I have not used it!!! I love it when these young kids come on TV for McCain, they are still wet behind the ears, and are trying to tell me how McCain will treat us proper. Put somebody on the air with a little bit of knowledge, instead of just smut.

Obama hits McCain on Medicare

no joe, no bo, nj — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:38:04 GMT

Every four years, like clockwork, the Democrats pull out their Halloween masks and jump out of the buses to scare the elderly by shouting: THE REPUBLICANS WANT TO TAKE YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE!!!!

There is something fundamentally lacking in human beings who think nothing of frightening the elderly with undocumented threats in an attempt to gain votes. It is morally reprehensible.

As morally reprehensible as taking money that cost some low level worker his or her job.