John McCain on Health Care

McCain opposes a universal health care system such as those in Canada or Europe, arguing the idea was rejected in the early 1990s. He also opposes raising taxes to pay for better health care opposes requiring everyone to purchase health insurance. Among some of the ideas he supports:

• expand community health centers and the S-chip program,


• offer tax incentives for poor people,


• put health care online,


• medical malpractice reform


• promote health savings accounts.

I think that we can make health care affordable and available without a mandate. Six of the eight million children that haven’t taken advantage of the S-CHIP is because they just haven’t signed up. Community health centers need to be expanded. There’s a whole variety of things that we can do before we mandate health care for every American. One of the problems we have is that there’s a lot of healthy Americans that say, ‘I just don’t want health insurance.’