NEW YORK, Oct 2, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A report issued Thursday said
Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama's healthcare plan is better
than that offered by Republican John McCain.
The report by the Commonwealth Fund outlined the two candidate's healthcare
plans and evaluated their respective proposals.
"Senators John McCain and Barack Obama would place the nation's health system on
very different paths, with profound implications for the American people," a
statement from the Commonwealth Fund said.
The report noted that Obama is proposing a mixed private-public group insurance
with a shared responsibility for financing.
The Illinois senator's plan "has greater potential to move the healthcare system
toward high performance than does McCain's proposal to encourage individual
market coverage through the use of tax incentives and deregulation."
In 10 years, McCain's proposal would reduce the number of people who are
uninsured by 2 million out of a projected 67 million, while Obama's plan would
reduce the number of uninsured people by 34 million, the report said.
"The presidential candidates' health care reform proposals offer fundamentally
different visions of the future of health insurance in the United States," the
report said.
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