With less than a month to go before Election Day, one critical pocketbook issue that could put Sen. Barack Obama into the White House is Sen. John McCains reckless health insurance reform proposal.
At a time when people are terrified about their financial well-being–with stocks tanking on Wall Street, and banks and businesses failing on Main Street–the last thing anyone with a job wants to worry about is losing their health coverage.
Yet that is exactly the fear Sen. McCain is injecting into this campaign with his call to tax employer-paid health insurance premiums, while sending folks off with a totally inadequate tax credit to shop for individual coverage on their own.
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