A reminder

John McCain has never worked for a living in the private sector for his entire life. He's always been on the government payroll, first when he was in the military, then when he used his (second) wife's money to buy a government position.

John McCain has never had to worry about health insurance or health care his entire life. He has received government health care from birth. He received government health care from the U.S. military as a child (due to his father being in the military) and continued receiving it after he joined the mlitary until he retired from the military. He has received government health care from the U.S. congressional health plan ever since then, and when(if) he ever retires he will receive government health care from Medicare.

John McCain doesn't know what it's like for ordinary people to struggle to pay for health care because he's never had to do so. John McCain doesn't know what it's like for ordinary people in non-government jobs to struggle during bad economic periods because he's never had to do so. For John McCain -- a man who has never had to pay for his own health care -- to claim that the solution to America's health care crisis is "more free market" is like a blind man claiming that Impressionism is a more valid school of art than Expressionism. John McCain is like a blind man who has never seen private health care yet feels qualified to tell you what it is. Why should anybody listen to this old hypocrite?

-- Badtux the Politics Penguin