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  • Candidates Disagree On Primary Flaws Of Health Care Financing - October 10, 2008
    By Don McCanne, M.D., PNHP Senior Health Policy Fellow | Huffington Post
    John McCain and Barack Obama both recognize that there are serious problems with our health care system, and that the voters want something done about it. They would both use public policies to modify the private health insurance market to accomplish their goals. Although it would seem that their goals are similar, the specifics are quite different because they have started from very dissimilar perceptions of the primary flaws in health care financing.

  • Vetting McCain's Health Plan - October 9, 2008
    By Jane Bryant Quinn | Newsweek
    If you think that "The Market" -- whatever market -- always works for the best, you'll love John McCain's version of health insurance reform. It uses the tax code to shove you toward individual policies (more "choice!") and away from comprehensive, employer supported plans. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center puts the cost of his proposed subsidies at $1.3 trillion over 10 years.

  • How Do You Think Your Healthcare is Trading? - October 8, 2008
    By Donna Smith | California Nurses Association
    If you think the companies that collect your health insurance premiums and pay your health care claims have been insulated from the economic crisis, think again. And if you think the health insurance industry that is suffering right alongside the financial services industry isn’t going to need a bail-out too, think yet again. Only the bail-out we will give the health insurance industry will be much more insidious and potentially far more dangerous to us all.

Quote of the Day

  • McCain and Obama perceptions of health financing flaws - October 10, 2008
    As we near election time, we are seeing numerous reports, some excellent and some distorted, on how effective the McCain and Obama proposals would be in reducing the numbers of uninsured. Rather than digressing into disputes over the details of these analyses, it would be more instructive to step back and look at the fundamental goals of each proposal.

  • Lewin analysis of candidates' proposals - October 9, 2008
    The release of this report from The Lewin Group has provoked a debate on whether it accurately reflects the numbers of individuals that would gain coverage under the McCain and Obama proposals respectively. Although this debate is legitimate, it misses the most important point. We don't really care how many people nominally have health insurance; we want to know whether or not people are protected from financial hardship should they need health care.

  • Presidential debate - health care as a right - October 8, 2008
    Asking whether health care is a privilege or a right often leads to a not very productive 'tis so, 'tis not debate. But when the question is asked with the added choice of responsibility, and then answered, the answers can be very revealing.

Blog Watch

  • Cognitive dissonance in U.S. health care - October 1, 2008
    By Maggie Mahar | THCB (The Health Care Blog)
    A great many Americans do not want "Big Government" interfering with their health care. Unless they lose their insurance and then they expect "their government" to bail them out.

  • Allies rally for health care reform - September 19, 2008
    By John Morgan | The Pennsylvania Progressive
    Dr. Tsou showed a comparison of the single payer plan with Gov. Rendell's ABC Plan which has no cost containment and will only add 270,000 people to coverage over five years, not even enough to keep up with those losing coverage. Should John McCain's plan pass millions more Pennsylvanians may lose their employer based health insurance as business loses tax credits for providing these benefits.

  • On the Single Payer Road Again: It'll Be a Tough Lobby to Beat - September 19, 2008
    By Donna Smith, community organizer
    From one speaker to the next, the case for single payer grew ever sharper and more contrasted with the status quo. Audience questions revealed strong support for making the right sorts of political pressures heard in the right places. And this is one lobby with motivations so focused and strong that it was energizing just to be in the room.

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