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Here's a great post detailing the numerous flaws in McCain's healthcare plan. Give it a read while we wait to hear from Alan who had the pleasure of sitting through McCain's townhall on healthcare this morning.

Here's a snippet, but the whole thing is enlightening (in that scary sort of way).

McCain and his handlers knew they had to say something about health care. So they turned to their friends (and financial supporters) in the health care industry and the conservative think tanks. And they have adopted the most extreme right-wing ideological approach, premised on the idea that the big problem in health care is that Americans have too much insurance - in their words, we don't have enough "skin in the game" - and that only when we have to buy health care with money that comes directly out of our own pockets will consumers force doctors, hospitals and insurance companies to become more efficient.

So that's the theory. But it is contradicted by the facts. Most of us already pay part of our premiums out of our own pockets, and we increasingly have to shell out for co-pays in order to get to see a doctor. The result--in practice--is that most people, even those with good insurance, now think twice or three times about even getting regular preventive health checkups. Having lots of "skin in the game" has meant that millions of Americans don't get health care they need--and that's one of the big problems in U.S. health care driving costs up, not down.

A scary healthcare plan from a guy who has government healthcare his entire life. So, if it was good enough for him, why isn't it good enough for the rest of us?