Political Bloviation

I have enough “skin in the game”, thanks anyway. Doesn’t everyone by definition have all their (real) skin in the game already?

Kevin Drum – Mother Jones Blog: Vote McCain, Lose Your Health Insurance
Remember: this is a feature, not a bug. Republicans think Americans use too much healthcare, and they figure that the best way to fix this is to make it more expensive. So that’s what McCain’s plan does. It’s a pretty typical specimen of the “more skin in the game” plan beloved of conservative think tanks.

Yes, too much health care. And somehow this is the consumers’ fault? It has nothing to do with the way medicine is practiced in the US? Nothing to do with bizzare financing methods or an unwillingness to implement systemic reform?

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