Health Care News Campaign Trail for the week of May 2
In a speech of H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday, McCain’s detailed proposal for health care and for the first time, proposed a plan to help individuals can not obtain private health insurance, because pre - existing medical conditions, the Miami Herald reports (Dorschner, Miami Herald, 4 / 30). The proposal would:
Replace a tax benefits for workers obtain health insurance by employers of a refundable tax credit of up to $ 2500 for individuals and families $ 5000 for the purchase of private insurance;
Allow you to buy health insurance and state lines
Establishment of a plan to guarantee access where it is stated that the coverage of individuals are not able to obtain, because private medical coverage or no existing preconditions group coverage (Reichard / Nylen, CQ Health Beat, 4 / 29).
During the speech, McCain also discussed proposals to strengthen the use of savings accounts health, and the use of electronic health records and other technologies to reduce costs ( “Washington Post” , 4 / 30). He also discussed a proposal to “concentrate” Medicare reimbursement for all services related to treatment of a single state of health (Health Beat CQ, 4 / 29).
McCain adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin, said that health insurance pools may, for a period of five million and seven million people and cost between $ 7 billion and 10 billion dollars per year (Cooper / Bag, New York Times , 4 / 30).
On Wednesday, the McCain campaign, said the proposal could lead to higher taxes for some higher income individuals and families.
According to Holtz-Eakin, individuals in the level of higher income tax the family with health insurance, whose employer contribute at least $ 14285 on the premiums they would have to pay more taxes (SAC / Cooper, New York Times, 5 / 1).
In a statement, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (DN.Y.) said that the proposal by McCain, “policies, employers based system of health insurance, so that while human beings have a” election “to obtain such coverage, the employer would have no incentive, it” (Quaid, Miami Herald, 4 / 29).
Hari Sevugan, a spokesman for Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.), said: “McCain, recycling the same failed policy that will not work if George Bush after them, and will not work now” (thrust , Washington Post, 4 / 30).
The costs of health care
Clinton, McCain and Obama (D-Ill.) respectively on the proposals announced, with the objective of reducing health care costs, but “it is not clear how many candidates’ ideas might actually a bump on the rising cost of care, “the Wall Street Journal reported.
According to the magazine, candidates have proposed similar initiatives to cope with health costs, among others: with consumers more information so that it considers the costs and quality medical treatment, to take decisions of health, promote the use of Generic drugs and health information technology to reduce costs, and adopt some form of medical liability reform.
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