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Candidates’ Advisers’ Detail, Pt.2 – The forum ‘face-off’.

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Division was the path, but the forum was still presented in a “civil and courteous” manner, shares Carol. A coin was tossed and Obama adviser, Harvard University economist, David Cutler took the first ‘go’. Mr. Cutler explained that Obama’s primary focus is to provide a means where Americans that neither have employer-based health insurance nor any provisions for government programs can still obtain quality health insurance that is very similar to what federal employees have now. David went on to expound, "We basically want individuals and small businesses to pool together and get the same plans that big businesses can get." One major step was the inclusion that would guarantee those with pre-existing conditions and other situations that normally exclude them from affordable private health insurance plans could, now, obtain quality coverage. It is estimated that Mr. Obama’s health care system would require between $50 to $60 billion per year. Mr. Cutler covered that obstacle by proposing that this amount could easily be met by accessing the tremendous figure saved when Bush’s extremely skewed tax break for those earning over a quarter million dollars per year expires. Only a very minute percentage of our nation’s taxpayers will be impacted by any tax increase.

Next up was McCain health insurance/care reform adviser, Gail R. Wilensky. Ms. Wilensky is a senior fellow with an international health education foundation called Project HOPE. Right away a different track was underway. She described a plan that promoted “less regulation and government intervention.” She explained that Mt. McCain’s health insurance plan is oriented on “more individual control”.

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