Another e-mail:

K-Lo,
I really wish McCain would emphasize the portability of his health care plan. Under his plan, if you lose your job you still get the tax break for your health insurance. An example from my own life: in 1999 I worked for a law firm that offered a very comprehensive health care plan. Nice while it lasted, but when I got downsized I found I couldn’t afford the expensive monthly premiums to keep the coverage through COBRA. Fortunately we didn’t have any disqualifying conditions, because my next employer offered no benefits whatsoever and I had to get my own policy with a high deductible so I could afford the premiums. Didn’t much like having to pay my own premiums with after-tax income, but that turned out to be a great blessing when I decided to open my own office because I already had my own policy. If my employer had been paying for it, I probably couldn’t have afforded the expensive premiums, and by then probably couldn’t have gotten a new policy.

Maybe McCain should just have Joe and Mark the Trucker and Eric the Lawyer campaign with Sarah the Governor for the next three weeks. They sound like they can make the sale.