Daily News Updates - Health Insurance News

Candidates’ Advisers’ Detail, Pt.1 – Health insurance forum results.

More is better, when it comes to vital details concerning health insurance/care reform. The good news is that we keep getting more. Carol Ann Campbell of The Star-Ledger has just released an article, providing us with continually-better insight. It is posted on the ‘www.nj.com/newark’ website. In her article, Carol starts out by summarizing the stance of our two candidates dealing with health insurance/care reform. McCain’s stance on health insurance/care reform maintains that the “best way to heal the nation's health care system is for individuals to purchase [health] insurance on the open market.”

Obama’s health insurance/care reform approach is very different. His stance proposes “a national ‘health insurance exchange’ to pool uninsured and high-risk people so they get the best plans at the lowest prices.” Carol then goes on to provide us with a much clearer picture than what we’ve had so far.

A very rare opportunity took place yesterday in New Jersey. The event was the only joint health insurance/care reform forum that has been scheduled, between top health care advisors for the two camps. Not surprisingly, the proposed directions and measures between the two camps were very different.

Top issues were: The spiraling costs of health insurance and medical care, inefficiency and waste in the medical care industry and the critical problem our 47 million Americans who have no health insurance. The event was sponsored by the Rutgers Business School, whose dean is Michael R. Cooper. The event was held at IDT's Washington Square Conference Center in Newark, New Jersey.

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