"My suggestion is you not cast your primary vote for a candidate based upon their health care plan."

[Emit]

Thoughts? On the Dem side, there are pluses and minuses to each candidate's health care plan. This guy argues "there is little difference among the candidates in each of their respective parties" and suggests that an individual's decision to vote for a certain candidate should be based on other factors, not their health care plan. In another post by the same author, he expresses concern that both the Obama and Clinton plans have cost containment strategies:

When it Comes To Health Care Policy It Really Doesn't Matter Which Democrat Or Which Republican Wins Their Nomination

With "Super Tuesday" upon us, I am once again bringing back a post that argues there is little difference among the candidates in each of their respective parties.

My suggestion is that you not cast your caucus or primary vote for a candidate based upon their health care reform plan.

From “thirty thousand feet” the leading Republicans are offering much the same health care policy ideas—a more vibrant market serving a more responsible consumer who would control his health care choices in a system that doesn’t need to spend more money.

And, from that same "thirty thousand feet," the two remaining Democrats are all offering about the same thing--$100 billion+ in new annual spending to guarantee access for virtually all Americans to existing public and private health plan options as well as some new ones created by the government.

~snip~

Sure there are differences in their health care policy proposals. Among the Democrats, Obama doesn't have an individual mandate to buy coverage while Clinton does. Among the Republicans, McCain uses a tax credit to help people buy coverage while Romney talks about tax deductions.

But remember, these are political proposals--generally just a few pages long. The real health reform process will eventually have to go through the legislative "sausage factory" that is Congress and I will suggest that the starting point from one Democrat compared to another, or one Republican compared to another, is hardly material.

As you prepare to vote in your state's caucus or primary, I would recommend that you focus on the other issues that are important to you, the "electability" of each of the candidates, and perhaps most importantly on the issue of health care, which of these candidates can finally break the health care reform logjam and get something done.

http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2007/11/when-it-comes-to-health-care-policy-it.html

[graywarrior]

1. Yeah, I posted about that today.

I've given up on the health care coverage promise. We'll never get it.

[Emit]

2. I'm sorry it's a dupe -- I hadn't seen it posted.n/t

[graywarrior]

3. Hey, there have been a million posts about the same thing

Not to worry. It's all cool.

[Emit]

4. Things are moving so fast in this forum that it's hard to follow any subject

with any quality of discussion, really. I see the million posts about Obama's plan v Clinton's, but, I honestly can't say that I've seen any posts about this particular take on the matter. BTW, did your post on this subject sink as fast as mine? ;)

[graywarrior]

5. 35 frantic posts before it moved down the line

[dorktv]

6. My mom does not have health insurance. I am voting health care plan.

[Emit]

7. Which candidate's though

they both are similar.

[dorktv]

9. One covers everyone...one misses 15 million people.

My mom has diabeties and even though I have tried to find her insurance I can pay for, she is ineliglible. Her work refuses to extend her insurance and I can only pay for so much medical treatment. I got some good news with my state taxes and I may ask her if she could get the testing she needs for her foot with my taxes.

[BootinUp]

8. Each voter will decide what issues are important

and what plan they want to see pushed in the GE. I find the articles suggestion to be silly that it is not important to consider differences in primary candidates proposals.