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Right to Adequate & Affordable, Pt.4 – Obama delivers; McCain must explain.

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Should the government be more involved in health insurance?  Should the government have been more involved in home mortgage lending?  So, therein lies the answer to both.  Mr. Reinhardt states that the one candidate who knows the necessity of government involvement in health insurance is Mr. Obama.  Everyone would have to agree if they also agree that our nation needs to be mindful of its domestic health.  ‘Every man for himself’ speaks of pathetic disunity.  Being mindful of domestic health doesn’t mean ignoring 75 million citizens who either have no health insurance or, what they have is dangerously inadequate.

Mr. Obama understands this well and is very committed to addressing it.  Mr. McCain doesn’t seem to think this is an important issue.  Although not mandating everyone, Mr. Obama is determined to make universal health insurance/care accessible and available to all.  He does, however, mandate that all the children be covered with health insurance because they can’t defend themselves and need some social protections.

In order to implement a project so big, Mr. O is drawing from proven research and a working model.  The working test bed being referenced is the Massachusetts model, which is a universal health insurance/care system.

His proposal is to set up government entities to offer adequate and affordable public health insurance.  The adequacy will be similar to what the members of Congress enjoy.  Premium costs will be scaled according to what families and individuals can afford.  So both adequacy and affordability will be made available to the entire American population.  Mr. McCain seems to never mention adequacy, only his provision to cheapen and provide less coverage.

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