The good folks at the Kaiser Family Foundation have put together a really useful tool to compare all the Presidential candidates’ health care platform planks.
You can slice, dice, and choose which candidates you want to compare. And yes, it even includes Tom Tancredo and Mike Gravel. It includes details on cost, coverage, role of public v private insurance, tax implications, mandates…the works.
And primary source links are provided too. This is really great work.
Oct
17
Just ran the Democrats’ health plans. Looks like RomneyCare is preferred by most of the Democrats, despite the fact that it simply has not worked in Massachusetts. Talk about rewarding failure! Only exception seems to be Dennis Kucinich and his universal single payer proposal, and Dennis has about as much chance as my cat of winning the Democratic nomination.
Screw’em. I’ll take my chances on my state (California) which has already passed universal coverage (only to have it vetoed by the Governator), and give up entirely on the notion of universal coverage nation-wide. Maybe this is something we should leave to the states, the way it’s left to the provinces in Canada?
Another great tool for comparing each of the candidates’health care proposals can seen by going at http://www.codebluenow.org. CodeBlueNow! is a non-profit, non-partisan health care reform organization. The presidential grid at codebluenow.org goes more in depth into each candidate’s plan.