Monday, July 23, 2007

Here's a question...

So I just typed in health care policies of presidential candidates and a link to a site from American Academy of Family Physicians with 2008 positions of candidates. I just looked at it quickly and this caught my eye on the Rudy Giuliani description...
Rudy Giuliani

Priorities: Giuliani has said that a single payer system is not an effective way to improve the nation’s health care system. He proposes to give Americans more control over and access to health care with affordable and portable free-market solutions. For more details, see Giuliani's Official Campaign Site.
So I think to myself, oh I'd like to see his proposal to give Americans more control over and access to health care... and what these portable free-market solutions are? What does he mean by free market. Does he think public subsidies for medical research free market? Does he think subsidizing the education of people going through med-school free market? For these and many other questions I eagerly clicked on his website since it says his site has more details.

Um...

go check for yourself.

I'll even leave the link again and you can come back after you've looked.

Okay. Did you find it? Did you find any mention of health care? His issues page doesn't even mention health care. So why did the site claim it mentioned details? How long do we as citizens put up with other people making claims for candidates that is just not true. The media does a whitewash by not challenging candidates who lack any attempt to discuss issues that are on the average persons mind, budget, and stress level.

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