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The Real Health Care Contenders, Pt.1 – The big heavyweight slugout.

Interestingly, a new take is evolving that may prove to be the prevailing bout to decide the outcome of our critical quest for true health insurance/care reform. Tim Noah has posted on the www.slate.com website, a behind-the-scenes look at a new battle line that has formed among the heavyweights. He points out the limitations of only relying in the political ring by illuminating the ‘slugfest’ that is erupting between two opposing new and powerful lobby campaigns. As it sizes up, in the one corner is ‘The health insurance industry’. The challenger in the other corner is ‘The loose confederation of labor unions and various liberal nonprofits’. ‘The health insurance industry’ starts with a combination called "The Campaign for an American Solution”, followed quickly by a flurry of blows called a ‘listening tour’. The first location of the tour is Columbus, OH, being held today (Tuesday). Publicity will abound, as Chris Frates of Politico explains that print ads will begin next week, featured newspapers all over the place.

From the opposite corner is the threat of extending Medicare coverage to everybody or “to regulate health insurers so closely that health insurance would become a government program in everything but name,” as prosed by Mr. Noah. The fear is that, if a Medicare grew to be too large, it would threaten the survival of our current style of health insurance and that portion of the industry that has been so profitable. The scary thing is that almost all of the other advanced industrial nations having democracy have already successfully achieved this.

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