Rx McCain

Today is Saturday, 20 September 2008.

Here’s a gem of a quote, sent to Paul Krugman at The New York Times.

“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.”

Yes, that’s the demi-god of deregulation Himself, Ramblin’ John McCain.

Bear Stearns, the HMO, anyone?

McCain, as many Republicans, claims to be strong for "law and order". John, any synapses left to fire? : "regulations" are a form of the rule of law.

If you wish to expunge regulations, then you wish to expunge law.

How about some additional "choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulations": e.g., crack cocaine and child sex workers?

[Credit: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/mccain-on-banking-and-health/]
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Jelly Roll Morton was born this day in 1885 or 1890.