The Obama-Biden plan provides new affordable health insurance options by: (1) guaranteeing eligibility for all health insurance plans; (2) creating a National Health Insurance Exchange to help Americans and businesses purchase private health insurance; (3) providing new tax credits to families who can’t afford health insurance and to small businesses with a new Small Business Health Tax Credit; (4) requiring all large employers to contribute towards health coverage for their employees or towards the cost of the public plan; (5) requiring all children have health care coverage; (5) expanding eligibility for the Medicaid and SCHIP programs; and (6) allowing flexibility for state health reform plans.
The Obama-Biden campaign decidedly not promising single payer. Compare and contrast with the Senate bill. Shocking dishonesty, I know. Had Bush been allowed a third term, we’d be looking at this same kind of thing right now: 40 million people getting access to insurance.
Lemkin 