McCain has received taxpayer funded health care his entire adult life.

[cottonseed]

Leave it to the Des Moines Register to ask one of the best questions of the entire campaign.

Crooks and Liars has the story and video:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/10/01/iowa-newspaper-editorial-board-to-mccain-havent-you-lived-your-entire-adult-life-with-taxpayer-funded-health-care/

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Senator McCain sits down with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register and gets stumped by one of the best questions I’ve heard asked of him so far this campaign.

“Throughout your adult life, am I right, as a veteran and a member of Congress and now someone over sixty five, throughout your adult life have you been covered by a taxpayer-financed health care plan?

Think of the brilliance of this question: McCain has received “government-run” health care his entire life, and I’m sure he’s never had a single complaint. If “government-run” health care is so inefficient and wasteful, how has it served him so effectively for over thirty years? If it’s good enough for him, why isn’t it good enough for the 40 million Americans who desperately need it and are forced to live without it? I’m always amazed at how successful the Republicans are at convincing voters they don’t want something that clearly works well, and something that they themselves have no problem taking advantage of.

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[gmoney]

1. Probably as a child, too, since Daddy was an Admiral!

I'm sure he was covered then, too...

Has McCain ever had a non-governmental payday?

[DesertFlower]

2. no. i don't think he has. nt

[cottonseed]

3. Good point, the guy lived of the taxpayer dollar his ENTIRE life!

Unless Cindy gives him some sort of allowance, this guy hasn't earned a private sector dollar since taking his first breath.

[leftofcool]

4. Veterans care?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Does he collect social security too?

Wouldn't put it past him.

[blue-kite]

6. Great question...

Typical conservative double-standard.

[ogneopasno]

7. But....but....HE'S NOT AN ASTRONAUT!

Seriously, that's his response. WTF.

[Boz]

8. Actually hes been a ward of the state in many ways since birth, SCI FI come to life

He was born into the army coverage of his father, raised and educated on army funds, covered by his time in the army out of school,
got disability pay after army release(still does)GI bill and housing, ran for senate and was covered by the government for payroll, health benefits and transportation benefits and so on, currently he collects social security, disability as well as his payroll.

If Jules Verne were to look forward and do a sci fi story about a child raised by and for the state, in a culture of war and destruction, beholden to the megacorps, with a plan to manipulate future culture and citizenry he could not have penned a clearer or more frighteningly overbearing dystopian society commentary outline than John McCains life.

[Mabus]

9. Excellent summary.

I agree.

[alsame]

10. Do as I say, not as I do. Typical repuke. eom

[subterranean]

11. I bet he's got one of them Cadillac, gold-plated healthcare plans

that he thinks are too good for ordinary Americans.