For John McCain, it was a really bad week to have a bad week, and he had a bad week, with the comment about the fundamentals of the economy, which it took two days for him to be able to come back from that. … The economy’s been the number one on the issue list [...]
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.
– John McCain September 2008