Clinton's Excellent Health Care Plan Offers Choices; Is Affordable for ALL

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Topic subject Clinton's Excellent Health Care Plan Offers Choices; Is Affordable for ALL
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4711418, Clinton's Excellent Health Care Plan Offers Choices; Is Affordable for ALL
Posted by OzarkDem on Fri Feb-22-08 07:23 AM

Just posting this again as information. They really didn't allow her to talk much about this plan last night. Its very good, better than Obama's and is sustainable for the long term.

Clinton's plan offers four choices:

Low income: Medicaid (she plans to expand it to provide coverage to more low income individuals). If you or your family's income is low you will be enrolled in Medicaid.

Moderate income: buy into a government plan like Medicare; buy into the plan that Congress has; buy into private insurance (where premiums are capped and indexed to a percentage of your income).

Clinton's plan also provides federal incentives (tax credits, etc) to EMPLOYERS and INDIVIDUALS to help pay for insurance.

Clinton's plan also forces private insurance to compete with a government plan - the same as John Edward's. It likely will lead to a single payer system as private can't compete w/ low cost of a government plan.

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/healthcareplan/am ...