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Understand the Big Picture, Please, Pt.4 – Evidence-based core guidelines.

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For those who can accept evidence-based reasoning, lets consider the latest findings and projections of the Commonwealth Fund. Their conservative projections are that Mr. Obama’s plan would provide health insurance coverage for twice as many of the tens of millions of Americans who have no health insurance as Mr. McCain’s would in 10 years time. This is the core issue. This deals directly with the crisis. Not indirectly, as taxes do. This needs to be the health insurance issue that the debate mediators must enforce. Sidestepping derails the train.

Last week the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute jointly released their findings through the Tax Policy Center. Their findings projected that Mr. McCain's plan would only reduce the number of Americans with no health insurance by 2 million in a decade. By contrast, Mr. Obama's plan would reduce the number of Americans with no health insurance by 33 million people. That’s 15 times as many as Mr. McCain! This is the core issue. Needs undiluted national debate.

PhD, Robert Moffit, directs the Center for Health Policy Studies for the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation. He criticizes these health insurance/care findings as being "nonsense." We don’t seem to have any evidence-based reasoning to support his opinion, however. Perhaps they are forthcoming.

Sideline issue here: Mr. Obama’s health insurance/care plan, projected out 10 years is estimated to cost $1.6 trillion. Mr. McCain’s is projected at $1.3 trillion. If we average these incomprehensible numbers to a per-year figure we can easily see that Obama’s is $106 billion and Mr. McCain’s is $103 billion. Since the first-year figures are higher than these average figures, we can expect the totals to keep declining over the years.

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