Candidate Review - Health Care - Barack Obama

Obama also uses those magic words; the Congressional Health Care plan. I should note that his health care plan is unusually complete even in it's initial presentation - many of the candidates have additional websites you can go to and read their policy; Obama has those too, but also a lot of information just on his page on health care. Some emphatsis on the problem of health care which is a good enough Idea i suppose. And then his plan. It has 6 planks.

1. Obama's Plan to Cover the Uninsured. Obama will create a new national health plan to allow individuals without access to affordable insurance coverage to buy coverage similar to that available to members of Congress. . . .

2. National Health Insurance Exchange. Obama will create a National Health Insurance Exchange to help individuals who wish to purchase private insurance. The Exchange will act as a watchdog group and help reform the private insurance market by creating rules and standards for participating insurance plans to ensure fairness and to make individual coverage more affordable and accessible.

3. Employer Contribution. . . .

4. Mandatory Coverage of Children. . . .

5. Expansion of Medicaid and SCHIP. . . .

6. Flexibility for State Plans. Obama's plan allows states to continue innovating on health care reform.

And that doesn't count his plans to modernize our health care system. It's very comprehensive. I do think he does emphasize the choice and of course that its based on the Congressional Health Plan. On the other hand the completeness of this plan probably doesn't help it much. You look at a plan like this, and it becomes evident that Obama does want to change how Healthcare works.