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get real
By janeg
Oct 17th 2007
at 12:46 pm EDT
It's time for presidential wannabes to acknowledge that government is not cut out to do a good job with overseeing and administering the medical industry in the US, that medical spending is not necessarily correlated with good outcomes, and that decades of government interference in all this has pushed costs out of reach while creating access problems.
Every couple of months, a presidential candidate comes up with a new proposal for how they plan to solve the health care crisis -- 46.5 million Americans are uninsured. The 18-34 age group makes up the largest percentage --39 percent -- of the total uninsured. So even if you're currently covered under some kind of student health care plan, that coverage will evaporate the day you graduate. That's why you should care about what the candidates say about health insurance.
The only problem is, health care plans are confusing. One way to get around this is to look at health08.org and look at their side-by-side comparison tool for what each candidate is proposing.
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