Oh my gosh.  Can someone please explain to the American people how utterly scary this guy is.  He is CLUELESS!!!!!!!

"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."

Talking Points Memo | Innovative Products

After all this mess? He STILL believes in the magical powers of “the market” to regulate itself? 

Remember, his top economics advisor is former Sen. Phil Gramm, the legislative architect of the banking and financial services deregulation that led to the current crisis

And his health care proposals are all off-the-rack Heritage Foundation-style initiatives based on the premise that people have too much, not too little insurance. The only thing jarring about the statement is the degree to which it has been overtaken by events as McCain now tries — a la Palin the Earmark-Killer — to rebrand himself as a Mr.. Wall Street oversight and transparency when he’s been pushing deregulation for 25 years.

McCain’s article in THIS MONTH’s issue of Contingencies