Obama: McCain health plan 'radical'

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By MIKE ALLEN | 10/4/08 8:42 AM EDT
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With families increasingly worried about their economic security, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is opening a major assault on what he charges is a “radical plan” by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to decentralize health insurance.

Bill Burton, national press secretary of the Obama campaign, charged: “Millions lose the health-care that they have.”

Obama is unveiling his new assault at a rally in Newport News, Va., this afternoon, and the campaign is following up with TV ads, radio spots, mailers and grassroots events in battleground states, aides said.

“hat John McCain doesn’t tell you is that his plan calls for massive deregulation of the insurance industry that would leave families without the basic protections you rely on,” Obama says.

“So here’s John McCain’s radical plan in a nutshell: he taxes health care benefits for the first time in history; millions lose the health care they have; millions pay more for the health care they get; drug and insurance companies continue to profit; and middle class families watch the system they rely on begin to unravel before their eyes.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14271.html

I KNEW this was a huge huge weakness for McCain. I guess they were saving it for the stretch. Good Job Obama!