Some campaign adviser committed a major gaffe; an хотелско обзавежданеonline casinoactualerbium doped fiber idea has entered the presidential race. Good on John McCain for at least nodding at the idea of breaking the health insurance-employer link.

There’s no good reason to tie insurance to employment, apart from the obvious one that it’s the easiest place to catch the cash, the same rationale behind withholding. But if that’s your reason, then you’re just using employers to do dirty work you don’t want to be seen as having the government do. That’s the opposite of transparency and accountability in government.

Instead there are very good reasons to break the employer-insurance link. It’ll give consumers more choice, producers more opportunity, and both employers and employees more freedom to focus on, you know, work.

Sounds like a recipe for success to me.

Now let’s see if Sen. McCain can stay on this message for as long as a month, or whether the first sneeze from either Obama or the New York Times will knock him off it.

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