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Elect Health Insurance, Pt.1 – How they do…what they do.

It’s right around the corner. Last chance to resolve the health insurance crisis. Big difference in choices. About the only thing predictable is change. Change can be either good or bad. It all depends on the choices we make. When it comes to health insurance, the difference can be drastic. So it’s very risky to leave it up to happenstance. Let’s hope our voters are well-versed on the issues because the health insurance we get can leave very lasting effects.

Both candidates are targeting employer-based health insurance. One wants to build it up, while the other wants to tear it down. The goal is to cover more Americans with health insurance. But the methods could hardly be more different.

Obama would like to make it more robust and make it more affordable. McCain would like to do away with it and replace it with cheap open market health insurance. As many as 164 million Americans could be drastically affected by this.

According to the head of the American Benefits Council, James Klein: "Both McCain's and Obama's plans would move coverage in ways that changes the nature of the employer-sponsored system." Both claim to be after the same endpoint, but they’re taking opposite directions around the earth to get there. That endpoint is to reform out current health care system and provide more Americans with health insurance.

As far as trying to cover all 45 million Americans who have no health insurance now, their goals start to contrast sharply. Focusing on the actual crisis as opposed to just radical change seems also to be very contrasting.

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