Healthcare - Three Candidates

Barack Obama – Barack wants to give every American health insurance by law. No one should be turned away from health insurance and premiums will be less. The plan covers preventive, maternal and mental health care services. People will also be able to move from job to job without worrying about their health care coverage. Insurance companies will also have to report data to ensure quality of healthcare. Overall, he wants to make coverage more accessible and affordable for Americans. All children will be covered and will be allowed to remain under their parents’ plan until age 25. He wants to lower the cost, modernize U.S. healthcare and promote patient safety. He wants to prevent companies from monopolizing the healthcare industry which will lower the cost for coverage and prescription drugs. Obama strongly supports biomedical research.
Five Main Parts
1. Reduce costs for employers
2. Focus on preventing costly disability conditions
3. Improve quality
4. Reduce waste and efficiency moving from pen and paper to information technology
5. Prevent companies from monopolizing

Barack is committed to listen to everyone and move process forward, everyone should be covered without discrimination, system should be cost effective and families with insurance get relief with payments.


Hillary Clinton – Clinton also believes in Universal health care. She wants to give children health insurance, allow people to keep their current health care or switch to affordable choices. Hillary also wants to push drug companies to lower the cost of vaccinations. Believes it’s a tragedy to have one stroke of bad luck and lose everything you work to earn. Plan doesn’t create new government department or agency but a public private partnership providing more choices. Her plan is all about choice in order to make the people happy and incentivize people for healthy behavior. Put doctors back in charge of your health care not insurance companies. She believes the new health care system could be paid for by rolling back tax cuts Bush implemented and savings. If we had an electronic medical record system we would save $77 billion dollars a year. Also, innovations, prevention of chronicle illness and negotiation with drug programs and Medicare for cheaper drug prices will save money.

Three Objectives
1. Lower Cost for Everyone
2. Improve Quality for Everyone
3. Cover Everyone


John McCain – Sees the fundamental problem as the rising cost of U.S. health care. Improve health and spend less while promoting prevention of diseases. He wants to provide health care for all citizens. Promote competition throughout the health care system. He also believes in personal responsibility. We must take better care of ourselves to prevent illness and teach our children nutrition to prevent obesity and health concerns in future generations.