With "Super Tuesday" upon us, I am once again bringing back a post that argues there is little difference among the candidates in each of their respective parties.My suggestion is that you not cast your caucus or primary vote for a candidate based upon their health care reform plan.From “thirty thousand feet” the leading Republicans are offering much the same health care policy ideas—a more
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Poll Shows Democratic Presidential Candidates Attracting Independents and Moderates With Their Health Reform Plans
I was struck by this conclusion in today's Los Angeles Times regarding their recent voter survey:"In one of the most politically significant results, the poll finds that independents and moderates were generally lining up with Democrats in the healthcare debate."The survey also suggested an explanation for the emerging alignment: Independents were most likely to complain about "job lock" -- the
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Democratic Presidential Candidate Bill Richardson Announces a Health Reform Plan
Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson recently announced his health reform plan.Richardson's health care proposal follows the general outline offered by other Democratic candidates in that it focuses first on getting everyone insured and falls short in getting at the fundamental problem creating so many uninsured--health care costs.Bill Richardson's health plan also builds on existing
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Leading Democratic Presidential Candidates Comment on Health Care This Week
Joe Paduda, over at Managed Care Matters, is attending the "Take Back America" conference in DC this week. Joe has been posting a review on his site of each of the Democratic candidates comments on health care.Comments include a review of Clinton, Edwards, Obama, and Richardson.
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The Mandate Myth--Health Reform Plans Don't Have to Mandate Coverage to Work But They Do Have Be Affordable
As the presidential candidates, Republican and Democratic, begin to come forward with their health reform plans, a side debate is heating up about whether any meaningful health care reform plan has to have a mandate, individual or employer.The reasoning goes that for health care reform to work we need to get about everyone in the pool--both in order to solve the uninsured problem and to be able
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Democratic Presidential Candidate Bill Richardson Supports the Employer Mandate as a Way to Provide Health Insurance
Democratic Presidential Candidate Bill Richardson has weighed in on the health care debate with comments about what he would do on the issue:"You know, every time a Democrat, it seems, we propose a new [health care] plan, it's more spending or more taxes. I'm not that way...I would have a mandate. I would say every employer...has to have a health care plan. That's how you pay for it."Well
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