2008-10-20

McCain vs Obama on Healthcare


A great story on NPR's Day to Day comparing the two candidates on their healthcare policies.  Neither appears great, but McCain's is definitely worse.  At least Obama's might be a step in the right direction, but lacking a ton of detail not to mention any method to pay for it.  Sounds a lot like welfare, and I'm not sure how they'd keep companies from just stopping offering group policies.  McCain's on the other hand just sounds ridiculous and would accomplish almost nothing.  A tax credit of an insufficient level to do any good, and at the same time taxing benefits from employer-sponsored programs?  At least he's dealing with the financial aspect a bit more, but uselessly.

At least according to this Trudy Lieberman person.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95899422

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