McCain’s Health Care Plan

John McCain is starting to promote his health care plan, which for me is among the stronest selling points he has. Here is McCain's 30-second ad and here are the details. (Much of which is borrowed from proposals by Tom Coburn and John Shadegg).

Tyler Cowen asks a few questions and claims that this is new ground for McCain, but that is more due to Cowen not having paid attention until now, and relying on Politico for his information (watching McCain's ad alone would have answered Cowen's first question, as McCain emphasizes the word "refundable" tax credit).

Here is John Goodman grading the candidate's health care plans in November:

Most Radical: McCain by a long shot. He would completely replace our arbitrary, regressive, wasteful system of tax subsidies for private health insurance with a $2,500 refundable tax credit for everybody ($5,000 for couples).

Here is Fortune on "Why McCain has the best health care plan" in March.

Here is David Gratzer advising McCain to talk more about health care (since he plan is superior to the Democrats'), advice McCain has apparently taken.

Update: David Catron compares ObamaCare vs. McCainCare

Here is McCain himself on NRO Online