08.01.08
McCain’s Health Plan for America
Senator McCain's Health Care plan says that the problem with healthcare is that it is too expensive and that there are 47 million who are uninsured.
The McCain plan wants it to be easier for families to get the insurance they need. This will be done with a tax credit of $2500 for individuals and $5000 for families. You choose the insurer and the money from the credit goes directly to them. I would prefer to have the credit go directly to me and let me put it in a Health Savings Plan.
He plans on expanding the benefits of health savings accounts.
The plan then goes on to a number of ways to lower the cost of healthcare, which includes tort reform of some kind. Tort refrom is the only issue not present on Mr. Obamas plan, otherwise the plans closely mirror one another.
So to summarize, both candidates offer some form of a move to socialized government controlled medicine. Is this really what we want as a nation? Time and again we have seen the inefficiencies of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Neither addresses the issue that is really at hand and that is access to healthcare. Hospitals and healthcare providers need to be paid for the services they provide, if the plans do not pay adequately then hospitals and health care providers will not participate. Those who can afford to , will pay out of pocket to get the care they need and those who become part of this government run madness will be forced into a system that will be more stagnant than the one we have now.