Tensions increased along the
presidential campaign trail as Democratic nominee Barack Obama attacked Republican candidate John McCain’s healthcare plan.
Senator McCain’s plan seeks to tax the benefits workers receive through their employers while providing individuals with a $2,500 tax credit and families with $5,000 healthcare tax credit. This will be done in an effort to help the individual afford private
health insurance.
Members of Senator Obama’s campaign are outraged at the proposed healthcare plan, alleging that outwardly it appears beneficial, but in actuality it is nothing more than a ploy to raise taxes.
A spokesman for Senator McCain’s camp fired back, claiming that this plan will give Americans the healthcare they rightly deserve. This action will prevent middle class workers’ hard-earned paychecks from going straight into the pockets of government bureaucrats. Senator McCain also later asserted that Senator Obama’s healthcare plan would lead Americans down the path of government-run healthcare.
In a Gallup poll released in August, results showed that 56% of voters sided with Obama on healthcare issues, while 34% preferred McCain’s stance.
Despite the assertion that Democratic advertising tactics with regard to healthcare have been sarcastic and deceptive and that these attacks have shown a lack of tact, as the state of the economy becomes more of an issue Senator McCain continues to fall behind in the national and state-wide polls.