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The Health Care Heat is On, Pt.5 – Whoever wins…

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This coalition of liberals is solidifying to make sure that health insurance/care reform is a top priority for whoever is elected, Obama or McCain. The coalition is building majority congressional support right now to ensure success of their goal. Mr. McCain has already agreed to make health insurance/car reform a priority if elected, but the coalition is troubled by some of his proposals. Two of these proposals are that Mr. McCain wants to privatize and deregulate health insurance. The coalition’s concern is that, while it could serve to make health insurance cheaper, it could also add greater risk to the holders. There are already problems with this where 25 million Americans are caught with inadequate insurance. Many of these have been found to be in worse shape than those people who have no coverage.

Although the coalition does not, as yet, have a specific outline for their health insurance/care plan, what they are leaning toward is something more the one outlined by Mr. Obama. They are closely following the Massachusetts model. They see merit in the government subsidizing those having trouble affording the normal rates that are found today. A primary target are the 47 million citizens who, currently, don’t have any health insurance at all.

They expect it will be necessary to mandate regulations to keep the providers from keeping rates out of reach of the poor and also to cause the providers to enroll the victims with pre-existing conditions and chronic illnesses, without denying any. They want to give choices to people of either going private, or else choosing the newly-created public sponsored programs managed by the government. These new programs would be similar to, but apart from Medicare.

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