Health policy proposals can reflect many different ideologies or political philosophies, but John McCain's plan isn't so much ideological as utilitarian. There has been a lot of excellent analysis of it in recent days, but one critical aspect has somehow been overlooked: The McCain plan, if enacted, would result in an enormous transfer of wealth from the general public to large American businesses.
In that sense, it reflects a lot of what passes for "conservative" ideology nowadays. There is no underlying...
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