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Candidates' health plans are sickening to one another
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Frank Cotolo
2 Oct 2008 |
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John McCain and Barack Obama have revealed their approaches to reforming
the U.S. health care system but the two candidates insist that each other's
plan is no good.
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McCain suggests Obama's plan has no chance of making health care more
affordable, accessible, efficient and higher in quality. McCain said, "Obama
needs a doctor if he thinks that his plan is going to be a healthy addition
to the public."
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Obama said: "Nearly 46 million people are uninsured and many more
underinsured. My plan makes the uninsured insured and the underinsured
insured enough. So you see McCain is wrong about my plan."
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According to a recent report, Obama's plan would insure a projected 67
million uninsured people in a decade, while Republican McCain's plan would
cover just two million.
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McCain said, "That report is nonsense because Obama's plan cannot possibly
cover that many more millions than my plan covers. All you have to do is
look at the hard copy for my plan. The book of my plan must be two thousand
pages. Obama's plan book isn't that thick and he is using a larger font."
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"It's a big book, all right," said Arnold Stingbarrow, president of the
Insurance Corporation of America. "But McCain did not mention there are
pictures in it. That makes the book thicker. Obama's book is smaller, true,
but Obama's book has diagrams. Those things can help."
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McCain said, "Still, health insurance is clearly a top priority for me. I
have it, so everyone else should have it. I have dental, too. And, two of
four of my prescribed medicines are paid for by the policy I have. Everyone
should have such a policy and my plan will give it to them. Just read the
book of the policy. You can skim through it if you don't want to read it all."
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Obama's plan book has been given a bad review by some experts because, for
one, his page numbers are wrong. A proofreader for Obama's health-plan book
admits that the page numbers skip from twenty to sixty but he insists that
the text continues without anything missing.
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Obama said, "Before we turn around there could be 160 million people, or more
than 60 percent of the population under 65, who don't have health insurance.
I don't know how many people are in this country but 160 million sounds like
most of them to me. That's counting kids, too."
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