Holtz-Eakin will be remembered for all time for the laughable statement that John McCain helped to create the miracle of the Blackberry, but this is pretty ironic
If history had taken a different course, Doug Holtz-Eakin would be inside the McCain White House driving the Republican president’s domestic agenda, including health-care reform. But now, one year after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) lost the presidential election, the man who was by McCain’s side as the campaign’s top health-care guru remains unemployed — and his COBRA health coverage is running out.
Irony of ironies, it gets worse. Holtz-Eakin, who is about to start shopping for insurance on the individual market, is 51. And he has one of those pesky “preexisting conditions” that insurance companies often cite in denying coverage.
Also, the Washington Post is pretty hilarious in inferring that a McCain White House would be working on health care reform. The GOP ran the House for 12 years and the White House for 8 and they didn’t do a damn thing about the health care system in this country.
Hahahahahaha! whew. Ha ha. *chuckle* ho. Ha ha ha. *snicker*
Occasional schadenfreude is good for the heart, but probably not the soul.
“Health insurance companies care about us!”-Doug Holtz-Bumpkin
He’ll either pay for health care coverage or drop dead, depending on the God-Market’s will. This is only just and moral. Praise be to the God-Market, from who all blessings and punishments flow. So mote it be.
Holtz-Eakin just needs to pick himself up by his bootstraps and kwit bitchin. That whole “personal responsibility” thing.
There is a federal law called HIPAA that ensures people whose COBRA coverage is ending can get coverage with no pre-existing condition exclusions. It was enacted in 1996 when the Republicans controlled the House.