Daily News Updates - Health Insurance News

Obama Tour Promotes Health Care -- Engages McCain and expounds.

A good write-up in the Kaiser Dailey Health Report was posted on health08.org. With their help we can, now, flesh in more and more details and iron out some of the controversy. As the Babington, of the AP/Philadelphia Daily News reports, Barack started a 2-week tour yesterday, which will address health insurance/care and other issues. Starting the tour in Raleigh, NC, Mr. Obama further explained his plan for serious health insurance/care reform. According to the Raleigh News & Observer, he announced that his plan would lower each family’s health insurance expenses $2,500. There will be mandatory health insurance coverage for children. As reported by Sabar, of the Christian Science Monitor, employers will be required to either offer employer-based health insurance or else they must contribute to a federal fund that will, in turn, provide the coverage that the employer doesn’t. The amount contributed will be a percentage of the company’s payroll.

Bacon, of "The Trail, with the Washington Post reports Obama’s design to “provide subsidies to help U.S. residents who cannot afford health insurance.” For one of the strongest stances, Mr. Obama is decided on requiring health insurance providers to cover "residents with pre-existing medical conditions,” according to the Raleigh News & Observer. Presumptive nominee Obama took it farther by attaching his Republican counterpart, John McCain, to the Bush admin’s failing health care debacle. He accused Bush of sacrificing “investments in health care, and education, and energy and infrastructure on the altar of tax breaks for big corporations and wealthy CEOs." Mr. Obama also chides the Bush Administration of trying to squander $1.2 billion to award a tax break to Exxon Mobil while “millions of Americans can't afford their medical bills,” along with many other extreme hardships, a fuel crises and funding two wars simultaneously. For a man who is so much against government spending, Obama labels Bush’s actions by saying "That isn't just irresponsible. It's outrageous." This was reported by the AP/Philadelphia Daily News.