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Obama offers superior health care plan
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By Josh McClane, Jefferson City
Dear Editor: While watching the debate Oct. 15, the fundamental differences in each candidate's health care plan became clear to me.
I was listening closely because I believe health care should be one of the most important issues for Missourians right now.
McCain ‘s proposal for helping Missourians includes the further deregulation of insurance companies and something called health tax credits, but what he isn't telling you is that he intends to pay for those credits by taxing the health care benefits of 3.1 million Missourians for the first time ever.
Expert analysis has found his tax would actually undermine the employer-based insurance system and lead 406,000 Missourians to lose their current health care coverage they receive from their employers. This means more than 1.1 million Missourians will be without coverage if McCain's plan is implemented.
McCain also doesn't tell you that his $5,000 tax credit covers less than half the cost of the average health care plan. In 2007 the average health insurance plan in Missouri costs almost $12,000 - more than double the value of McCain's health care tax credit.
Senator Obama's plan for health care (as opposed to McCain's) is very simple and beneficial to all Missourians. He will reduce health costs by standing up to the insurance and drug companies. He will let Medicare negotiate to lower drugs, focus on prevention, and reduce waste and inefficiencies by modernizing the health system and he will reform the private insurance market so that no one will be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions. All of this equates to a savings of as much as $2,500 for the typical Missouri family.
There are many issues on the table right now, but when it comes to health care, there is only one candidate who is looking out for Missourians, and that candidate is Barack Obama.
I was listening closely because I believe health care should be one of the most important issues for Missourians right now.
McCain ‘s proposal for helping Missourians includes the further deregulation of insurance companies and something called health tax credits, but what he isn't telling you is that he intends to pay for those credits by taxing the health care benefits of 3.1 million Missourians for the first time ever.
Expert analysis has found his tax would actually undermine the employer-based insurance system and lead 406,000 Missourians to lose their current health care coverage they receive from their employers. This means more than 1.1 million Missourians will be without coverage if McCain's plan is implemented.
McCain also doesn't tell you that his $5,000 tax credit covers less than half the cost of the average health care plan. In 2007 the average health insurance plan in Missouri costs almost $12,000 - more than double the value of McCain's health care tax credit.
Senator Obama's plan for health care (as opposed to McCain's) is very simple and beneficial to all Missourians. He will reduce health costs by standing up to the insurance and drug companies. He will let Medicare negotiate to lower drugs, focus on prevention, and reduce waste and inefficiencies by modernizing the health system and he will reform the private insurance market so that no one will be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions. All of this equates to a savings of as much as $2,500 for the typical Missouri family.
There are many issues on the table right now, but when it comes to health care, there is only one candidate who is looking out for Missourians, and that candidate is Barack Obama.
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Boscoe wrote on Oct 31, 2008 9:26 AM: