Obama attacks McCain on health care

I challenge either of them to come up with a plan that is better than HR676.

In General- The health insurance benefits under this Act cover all medically necessary services, including at least the following:

(1) Primary care and prevention.

(2) Inpatient care.

(3) Outpatient care.

(4) Emergency care.

(5) Prescription drugs.

(6) Durable medical equipment.

(7) Long term care.

(8) Mental health services.

(9) The full scope of dental services (other than cosmetic dentistry).

(10) Substance abuse treatment services.

(11) Chiropractic services.

(12) Basic vision care and vision correction (other than laser vision correction for cosmetic purposes).

(13) Hearing services, including coverage of hearing aids.

(b) Portability- Such benefits are available through any licensed health care clinician anywhere in the United States that is legally qualified to provide the benefits.

(c) No Cost-Sharing- No deductibles, copayments, coinsurance, or other cost-sharing shall be imposed with respect to covered benefits.

I'm voting for Obama. I think his health plan sucks. Not as bad as McCains, but he didn't have enough guts to cut out the insurance companies. That is the only thing that will give us decent health care. Why should they get one third of our health care dollars?

Thanks to those two idiots voting to bailout Wall Street, neither one of them is going to be able to afford to do anything about health care anyway.

Oh I think Obama has slid to the center on health care for the election, once he is in it won't be hard to push him to the left again and true social health care. A lot of good things will be coming to Americans in the not too distance future.

All I know is, I just got some first-hand experience with how much America's lack of national health care sucks. I got in a car wreck and had to pay for everything myself, up front. Now I've got medical bills on top of my student expenses putting me even MORE in debt. Someone needs to fucking do something about this! Or we can all just try to stay healthy and pray we never get sick. Maybe you guys will have better luck than me.

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It's just like, "Ok, you're 18, we don't care whether or not you're healthy anymore".

I am one of the few that has great health care but have had to watch some very close to me battle with the lack of health care. Even if its just the very basic its better then having nothing. And for some to say this plan sucks i am banking on you have health care.

hey dumbasses talk to someone that lives in canada nationalized healthcare does not work it sucks unless you are one of the big dogs in government you are screwed my wife has family in canada who come to the us for their healthcare.

It depends on who you talk too from canada, instead of some right wing hack like billo who dosn't want his taxes too go up. Please get out of the fog shit head {sparkyth67} 40 million people without healthcare would sure want Canadian healthcare this is all about
class warfare and I would suggest you get the hell out of the way or get trampled.

Look. I can see the argument going both ways. Im for Obama but I dont really know where I sit with the healthcare issue.

will it help those who can't afford health care right now? yes. and that's not a bad thing
BUT
the contrast to that is it drastically changes how medicine works. You could be pushed to the end of a very long line for a very minor surgery. Need those wisdom teeth taken out? Too bad... so do 40,000 other people. Your case is way more sever than Joe Schmoe? Yea, that sucks... you're still gonna have to wait.

I mean I don't know the nitty gritty but there are pros and cons to both sides of the health care plan.

Do I like insurance agencies. Eff no. Im getting rapped my mine. They take god knows how much (I know but you dont need to haha) out of my paycheck every month (yea my company lied about that whole full coverage BS...) and I still have to pay a ridiculous copay (250) if i have an emergency.

When I switched insurance I went from a 20 dollar specialist copay to a 60 dollar one.

SO yes, I understand what its like to have hundreds, even thousands taken from you a year. BUT, i've also watched sick family members and know you really can't put a price on health and life. Im happier to be in debt and have my father than not be in debt and not.

I agree with Marilynn. I am also extremely frustrated by Obama's inability to even begin to address malpractice reform. He has one paragraph on the topic in his health care policy, and he doesn't even address the issue there! He says he is going to reduce the need for malpractice cases by improving the quality of health care delivered through IT improvements. What a ridiculous verbal manipulation that is. For someone who castigates people being controlled by special interests, Obama's loyalty to the Trial Lawyer's association is disappointing.