Election Health Care

[Fin]

Let us compare:

McCain's health care plan

Obama's health care plan

Reflections?

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Universal health care while nice in principle will be bad for the economy and medical scientific advancement Sci/tech advancement is a key for the American economy in the long run. Luckily I have hope cooler and more rational heads will defeat it the same way its been squashed the last time we had a go at it.

Despite that , all the other baggage that the GOP brings with it will probably end up forcing my hand to vote for Obama. The fear of having Palin as president alone is enough to scare me away from the 'publican ticket.

[Ice Queen (1)]

I was glad to see both seeing the need to reduce professional insurance for health care providers and trying to reduce prescription costs. Some of the ideas were pretty much the same, some different. At first read, I was getting a lot of actual content, just political speech fluff. I read more closely and navigated around a little to find actual content. Still, there is a lot of "this needs to change" but not a lot of "this is how we will do it, specifically" on both sides. Both of them have ideas that just sound ludicrous, or I could never see being implemented or working. One thing that really bothered me: in Obama/Biden's plan, there was the use of words like "guaranteed" and "mandatory". The magic # seems to be $2500 for both. McCain with a tax credit to everyone? (did I read that right?) to use for health insurance or get cash? So, everyone that makes plenty of money, and gets full benefits gets this too? And how will this be funded? Obama to save families roughly that amount through changes that may or may not actually happen and may or may not save any $. There is no slam dunk here for me. They both have some pros, and both have some WTF are they thinking?s. I guess it's more of a question, do I think either one of them will actually try to do any of this if they get into office. Even if it is actually on their agenda, with so many other things, how far down on the list of priorities would it be? Then, even if they try to make changes, will they be met with too much opposition?

Am I sounding pessimistic that anything will actually change?

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Am I sounding pessimistic that anything will actually change?

Probably just realistic.

Governmental change is glacially slow for the most part. Part of the drawback of the system, but also part of its genius. It DOES work, despite it being perpetually sub-optimal. If it was susceptible to rapid, dynamic changes, it could more easily get fucked up (or fixed) which, that level of uncertainty is something we wasn't to avoid in the most important overall structure on the planet.

Unfortunately that leaves many areas in poor shape for long, long periods of time.

[Rev.Reverence]

..so..I open the links in seperate tabs...I give it a glance..."John McCain's Vision for Health Care Reform"..."Barack Obama and Joe Biden's Plan"..

Any one else think the titles are funny? I do...the humor is intrinsically woven into this one...