John McCain
Rally
Concord, NH 12/17/07

TRACKING:
JOHN MCCAIN: "I want to get costs down. There's 10% inflation in Medicare last year. 10%. No system can sustain itself with 10% inflation..."

"I was at a town hall meeting here in Iowa. A guy stood up and said, I love my health insurance policy. I just got a notice that next year my insurance was going up by $800. IT's not the quality, it's the affordability. So we're going to have to do a whole lot of things. Including, giving people a chance to go across state lines to get their own health insurance. Take on the pharmaceutical companies."

"Do you know that the attorney general of [Iowa] and the attorney general of the state of South Carolina have both sued the pharmaceutical companies for overcharges of pharmaceuticals for their Medicaid patients?"

"Why didn't we know what those costs were to start with? Why did we have to have attorney generals sue?"

"Most importantly, I want to give families a $5,000 refundable tax credit that they can take anywhere in America and get the health insurance they think their family needs. I think for the 5 chronic illnesses...we ought to have an outcome based payment system."

LABEL: JM IA 12-27 (GR#35) CHDG- Clip B

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