Obviously not women. Or their doctors.
John McCain has made "choice" a major plank of his healthcare plan. Choice of insurance plan. Choice of doctor. Choice of treatment.
From McCain's website:
John McCain Believes The Key To Health Care Reform Is To Restore Control To The Patients Themselves. We want a system of health care in which everyone can afford and acquire the treatment and preventative care they need. Health care should be available to all and not limited by where you work or how much you make. Families should be in charge of their health care dollars and have more control over care.
The hypocrisy gives me a screaming migraine. Substitute Josephine for Joe and you'll see what I mean. McCain and his ilk go into apoplexy at the mere thought of government assisting in providing healthcare.
From the CNN transcript of last night's debate:
Sen. Obama wants to set up health care bureaucracies, take over the health care of America through -- as he said, his object is a single payer system.
Now, Joe, you're rich, congratulations, and you will then fall into the category where you'll have to pay a fine if you don't provide health insurance that Sen. Obama mandates, not the kind that you think is best for your family, your children, your employees, but the kind that he mandates for you.
That's big government at its best.
This will give them availability. This will give them a chance to choose their own futures, not have Sen. Obama and government decide that for them.
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Sen. Obama wants government to do the job. I want, Joe, you to do the job.
I want to leave money in your pocket. I want you to be able to choose the health care for you and your family. That's what I'm all about.
Yet the most vital personal and family choice - the choice crucial to the health and future of the individual and family - he dismisses with air quotes.
Just again, the example of the eloquence of Sen. Obama. He's health for the mother. You know, that's been stretched by the pro-abortion movement in America to mean almost anything.
I care about Joe the Plumber's right to choose the healthcare plan that suits him and his family. Let's apply those same standards to Josephine the Plumber. She doesn't need a bureaucracy or a mandate to decide what's best for her and her family. She has the right to the means to prevent pregnancy. She has the right to terminate unwanted pregnancy not only for her health but for the health of her family and the health of her future. She has the right to access to health care professionals who can support the reproductive choices she makes.