Health Care -
Hillary Clinton -
Q: Would you support a universal health care bill?
CLINTON: We need to take step-by-step progress toward providing insurance for every American. I’d expand the Children’s Health Insurance Program. I’d allow people between 55 and 65 to buy into Medicare. I want to see mental health considered on parity. He’s opposed the “patients’ bill of rights” that is supported in a bipartisan coalition, as well as by 300 medical and health groups. And he’s gone for the GOP version of the prescription drug benefit, which wouldn’t cover 650,000 New Yorkers.
Hillary voted to pass an amendment that would make up to $300 billion available for a Medicare prescription drug benefit for 2002 through 2011. The money would come from the budget's contingency fund. The amendment would also require a Medicare overhaul. While Bill Clinton was in office Hillary also made a hard push towards socilzed medicine, that would later be turned down.
Barrack Obama -
“We now face an opportunity — and an obligation — to turn the page on the failed politics of yesterday's health care debates… My plan begins by covering every American. If you already have health insurance, the only thing that will change for you under this plan is the amount of money you will spend on premiums. That will be less. If you are one of the 45 million Americans who don't have health insurance, you will have it after this plan becomes law. No one will be turned away because of a preexisting condition or illness.
Barrack Obama believes that there are three core issues in Health Care; Millions of Americans are uninsured or under insured because of medical costs, Health care cost are skyrocketing, and too little is spent on prevention and public health. Obama plans to cover the uninsured Americans. He will make available a new NATIONAL health care plan to ALL Americans including the self-emplyed and small bussiness. Obama plans to gurentee that no American will be turned away from unsurance plan because of illness or pre-existing conditions. He plan to creat affordable premiums, co-pays and deductables. Along with these there is one main feture to his health care plan that has proven to be a major problem now-a-days. He vowls that those who do not qualify for Medicaid (MA) but still need financial assistance will receive an income-realted federal sudsidy to but into the public plan or purchase a privare health care plan. In my eyes however, the very biggest point is that Barrack Obama vows to make Health care for children MANDITORY! There are several other points on health care that Barrack vowls, but these are the core points.
John McCain -
John McCain Beleives that Americans shoule be free to choose their doctors, including specialists, He is along with Barrack and beleive that the health coverage for children should be greater, that no child should be left without health care. Being a vertren himself he believes that the veterans health care is very limited and that they are being 'short stawed', and should be increase. A major issues for him is that people should be given full care no matter what care they need even if they are on a HMO.
McCain Beleves that the award for malpractice should be decresed, thus putting less and less perfectly good doctors out of business.
My Views:
I am a very liberal person, and when in comes to Health Care I would always vote Liberal. I personally follow Barrack Obama's views on health care very closely, but I am a huge fan of Socialized Medicine. For those of you who don't know the term Socialized Medicine is used to describe a system of publicly administered national health care. This system can range from programs in which the government runs hospitals and health organizations to programs in which there is national universal health care. The US has tried several times to introduce socialize medicine, but the public has been slow to accept it on the grounds that it would be very costly and that there would be a decrease in the quality of patient care. But in reality Socialized medicine would signifigantly help Americas health care crisis. There would no longer be people, or children who die from easily preventable disease because of the lack of health care insurace. A few of the many countries who have sucessfully instated Soclized medicine are New Zeland, canada, and Englad, including MANY others.
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