McSenile on Health Care: Make it Like Wall Street

Sure there are things I could make up ... but why make stuff up when other reality it this bizarre.

For example, consider this little treasure of a policy statement from John McCain’s article, Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American, in the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries:

"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."

Notes Paul Krugmn of The New York Times:

So McCain, who now poses as the scourge of Wall Street, was praising financial deregulation like 10 seconds ago — and promising that if we marketize health care, it will perform as well as the financial industry!