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Journal on McCain’s Health Plan, Pt.1 – Aggressive claim, intense examination.

Health insurance/care reform is rapidly gaining clout, by demand of over 80% of our nation. ‘Times’ reporter Kevin Sack has done it again. In this writer’s opinion, Mr. Sack should be right up there with legends like Reston and Baker. He has delivered to us another very well-written article concerning our nation’s health insurance/care crises. This one is the most recent assessment on Mr. McCain’s health insurance/care reform proposals. Mr. Sack has gone to the (responsible) trouble of researching this assessment, as we all should.

Kevin starts out with the confident statement from Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin, Mr. McCain’s top domestic policy adviser. In a recent conference, the former Congressional Budget Office director, Mr. Holtz-Eakin announced that the GOP hopeful’s health insurance/care proposal would “put 25 to 30 million individuals out of the ranks of the uninsured, into the ranks of the insured.” Of course, this news was of great interest to many millions of Americans and would be analyzed by panels of our nation’s top health insurance/care economists. After careful examination a panel of major players came up with a general consensus. The general agreement was that the 25 to 30 million person projection given by Mr. Holtz-Eakin was a little off. The amount of error was around 25 to 30 million Americans…on the down side.

Needless to say, some further explanation is in order. The details and conclusions offered here came from a journal published in Health Affairs. The journal’s authors expect that any initial changes that may take place would be offset by trailing changes resulting in an almost even offset. The final result would, pretty-much end in a wash, as far as reducing the phenomenally high number of Americans without health insurance.

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