McCain's health care idiocy

It knows no bounds. Get this, from a guy who gets his health care directly and for free from the U.S. government.

The Arizona senator criticized national government-run health plans in some European countries.

"I'm not going to do like the Europeans have and have expensive health care systems that are neither efficient or, frankly, the quality we have here in America," he said.

McCain plans a broader speech on his health care proposals on Tuesday. He toured the children's hospital in Miami, visiting a 36-day-old baby who was born prematurely with a heart disease and survived surgery, but who doctors said will need a lifetime of care.

A lifetime of care she won't be able to get with McCain's plan, because it's called a pre-existing condition. And he claims Obama's out of touch with "poor people."

As for cost and quality...

In Greece, the government and individuals combine to spend about $2,300 per capita on health care each year, and the average life expectancy is 79 years. Canada, where the hospitals are probably cleaner, spends about $3,300, and people live to about 80. Here in the United States, we spend more than $6,000, yet life expectancy is just below 78.