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Who needs a heart transplant anyway?

Post on October 16, 2008 by 6 Comments »

In the health care portion of the debate last night, McCain referred disparagingly to “people who have the gold-plated Cadillac insurance policies that have to do with cosmetic surgery and transplants and all of those kinds of things.”

Was this a slip? Heart, lung and kidney transplants are accepted medical practice and critical to saving and extending lives. Often for guys in their 70s. They also happen to be one of those major procedures that people without health insurance often don’t get no matter how good a candidate they are for that new heart. That’s when you see those jars collecting quarters for people at the counter of your local gas station and people trying to mortgage their house to raise the deposit for the transplant.

I know some conservatives have been sounding off about the “unnecessary” coverage of “hair transplants.” Which, it turns out, are covered by most decent health plans in limited circumstances for people who are disfigured or horribly burned. Was this what McCain meant? Who knows.

I sure wouldn’t want one of McCain’s health plans he thinks is so great for the rest of us. No worries for McCain however. He is – and always has been – covered for transplants himself.

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Comments (Closed):6

  1. Andrea V.
    October 16, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    I wondered the same thing, I hoped he meant “implants” or something else. When he confused Breyer and Alito I really started to wonder if these are slips of the tongue or if he’s actually confused about many of these things. Too bad no speed readers were able to get a look at those health records. Or, you know, Chuck.

  2. sturner
    October 16, 2008 at 5:13 pm

    I presumed he meant hair transplants. Although, after I learned Palin is “a bresh of freth air” I should have not presumed anything.

  3. Adam Searing
    October 16, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    Well, he is getting a little thin up there….

  4. Paulatics
    October 17, 2008 at 11:29 am

    How about when he praised Palin’s concern for special needs children and kept coming back to autism? I thought her son has Down’s Syndrome?

  5. Adam Searing
    October 17, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    I think it’s her niece.

  6. Kimberly
    October 24, 2008 at 7:33 am

    Governor Palin says she is an advocate for families with children with special health care needs because she has a son with Down’s Syndrome. To be an advocate for families means that you truly have to advocate for the well being and benefit of those families. Their health plan doesn’t do that at all, they want to tax any health benefits, cut critical programs that help families, and they don’t think that it is fair that we are asking for the same type of health insurance that they have. That isn’t the kind of advocacy that any of us need. Senator McCain is out of touch with the middle class and the poor. 95% of Americans can not afford four more years of budget cuts to critical public health programs, skyrocketing private insurance premiums, and failed economic policies. A true advocate for families should be advocating for the same thing that Senator Obama has proposed, insurance for every child in America, tax credits for the poor and middle class, tax credits for small businesses, and access to the same type of low cost and quality health care that Congress has. The McCain/Palin team are desperate now, desperate enough to wage a “say anything” campaign of lies and rhetoric. Hopefully, there are enough people out there that are seeing through the lies and voting for the right people to actually change the world for the better.