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Democratic Platform Includes Clinton’s Ideas on Health Care
Democrats working to update their party platform agreed to include language reminiscent of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s ideas about creating a universal health care system, although they left open how such a system would ultimately be achieved, reports the Associated Press.
Source(s): Sheeran, Associated Press, 8/3/08
Utah Health Plan for Adults Could Adversely Affect Children
Advocates for children and the poor in Utah testified at a public hearing that expanding the state’s Premium Partnership, a program that provides subsidies to families to help them pay for the private insurance offered by their employer, "will in effect push out children now covered by Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)," reports the Deseret News.
Source(s): Thalman, Deseret News, 7/30/08
Connecticut Plan to Cover Uninsured Is Struggling to Sign Up Providers
Connecticut’s newly created Charter Oak Health Plan, which was designed to help cover the state’s uninsured population through private insurance companies, is struggling "to build up a comprehensive network of doctors and hospitals willing to participate" due to low reimbursement rates and added administrative costs, reports the Hartford Courant.
Source(s): Somma, Hartford Courant, 7/31/08
OPINION: McCain Health Plan Is Most Likely to Reform System
While most people think the Democrats are offering "bold new changes for our health-care system," it is actually Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain who is "proposing the most fundamental health-care reform," writes John C. Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis and an unpaid adviser to the McCain campaign, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
Source(s): Goodman, Wall Street Journal, 7/30/08
OPINION: High Gas Prices Get Attention, But the Bigger Problem Is Health Costs
The high cost of gas is getting a lot of attention at the moment, but "when it comes to real, sustained growth in costs, when it comes to real, sustained erosion of families' disposable income, gas still can't hold a candle to the real elephant in the room: health care," writes Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee in USA Today.
Source(s): Bredesen, USA Today, 7/31/08
OPINION: Medicare Is Not the Solution to the U.S. Health Care Crisis
Troubled that some have proposed Medicare as the blueprint for reforming the health care system, Republican Representative Tom Price of Georgia writes in a Washington Times op-ed that "Medicare is incapable of providing quality care for every American and must not be the model for national health-care reform."
Source(s): Price, Washington Times, 7/31/08
OPINION: Health Care Plans of Both Presidential Candidates Are Flawed
Presidential candidates Senators Barack Obama and John McCain offer detailed plans to fix the health care crisis in the United States, but both offer "incremental reform" without providing "the big fix for the problem of the uninsured," according to an editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Source(s): Editorial, Philadelphia Inquirer, 8/3/08