Clinton

-Provide tax relief to ensure affordability
-Limit premium to percentage of income
-Create a new small business tax credit
-Strenghten Medicaid and CHIP
-Reducing cost in hidden taxes

Obama

-Guaranteed eligibility
-Comprehensive beliefs in that of FEHBP
-Affordable premiums, co-pays and deductibles .
-Subsidies. For those families that do not qualify for Medicaid but cannot pay for private insurance.
-Simplified paperwork and easy enrollment.

Edwards

-Families without insurance will get coverage at and affordable price.
-Families with insurance will pay less and get more choices.
-Creating “Health Care Markets”
-To Let every American share the bargaining power to purchase an affordable, high Quality health plan, increase choices among insurance plans

Guiliani

-Income exclusion of up to $15000 for those without employer coverage to make insurance more affordable
-Help low income family’s and individuals secure health insurance.
-Save lives and reduce cost by streamlining the FDA process.
-Reward States for innovated solutions.

McCain

-Bringing cost under control
-Reform payment systems in Medicare
-Promote competition throught the health care system
-Make patient the center of care and give them a larger role in both prevention and care.

Huckabee

-Advocates policies that will encourage the private sector to seek ways to cut down cost
-Against universal health care
-Americans will have more control of their health care system
-Reform the tax code to eliminate business employer health insurance


Interview

When I asked my interviewee what he thinks about health care and which candidate he supports more. My interviewee is Carlos, a political major student. There something that he said that stood out most to me it was, " We're one of the richest countries in the world and its ridiculous how many Americans doesn't have health care right now." He believes that it should be the governments responsibility to pay for everyone to have health care. An Obama supporter, he has that because many of his friends only work part time because they are in school they do not qualify for health insurance and that thats not fair. "They work just as hard" he said. The latest static shows that 47 million Americans are without health care insurance right now.