Obama and McCain have different visions for health care

Our presidential candidates are proposing different solutions to our health care problem in this country.

Obama is going with a plan similar to that of Massachusetts which I once supported but now see is having problems. That plan would make insurance move towards becoming public insurance.

McCain is a bit more radical by wanting to make a more drastic change to health care and have it become paid for more by individuals.

Under Mr Obama’s plan, Joseph Antos of the American Enterprise Institute says, “the health sector would gradually shift from private to public insurance”. Under Mr McCain’s, while it is expected that employers would still contribute, “the shift would be toward individually purchased coverage, more competition and a wider array of choice in the employer market”. What is missing from Mr McCain’s plan, he says, is detail about how people would gain access to insurance pools that do not penalise them for their state of health.

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