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Speaking Up On Obama’s Plan, Pt.4 – Critical congressional support and time.

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The biggest question is, of course, will either candidate have any luck budging a stubborn Congress on substantial changes in our troubled health insurance/care system?  Unfortunately for Mr. McCain, he may be facing the ugly partisan block of a strongly Democratic Congress.  That may be one plus for Mr. Obama.  Another plus for Mr. Obama might be the fact that Congress has already come a long way with their own idea of health insurance/care reform.  Strangely enough, it bears some resemblance to Mr. Obama’s version.  Called the “Healthy Americans Act”, Oregon Senator Wyden is sponsoring this new bi-partisan plan.  It boasts a host of congressional heavies like Ted Kennedy (called “the captain of the team”) who chairs a key Senate Health Committee and was the one who called on the Senate for health reform in the first place, ranking Republican in the powerful Finance Committee, Chuck Grassley and 16 other co-sponsors, 8 from each party.  There goal was to have a basic plan ready to go with a little refinement, depending who would be next in the White House.  For more on this heavily supported effort in Congress, please refer to the series entitled:  “Health Insurance & Capitol Hill”.

Then there’s always the possibility that health insurance may take a back seat to the plethora of other issues troubling our nation.  It’s so easy to be a ‘nay-sayer’ and much easier to ‘burn a barn’ than to build one.  These people are quick to speak up in attack, but are also the same people who whine the worst when something adversely affects them.  Inadequate health insurance may land them behind the 8-ball but, alas, it may be too late to fix.

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