McCain wants health care deregulated

John McCain can't help himself.

Not only did he say that the economy was fundamentally sound just as Wall Street was unraveling, But he also thinks that health care reform should be modeled after the deregulated and collapsing financial sector.

Here is exactly what he wrote in Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American, in the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries magazine:

Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.

McCain is a serial deregulator!

And Barack Obama's response: