The Obama Health Care plan will have the following features:

The Obama plan will create a National Health Insurance Exchange to help individuals who wish to purchase a private insurance plan.

Mandatory Coverage of Children.

Employer Contribution: Employers that do not offer or make a meaningful contribution to the cost of quality health coverage for their employees will be required to contribute a percentage of payroll toward the costs of the national plan. Small employers that meet certain revenue thresholds will be exempt.

Subsidies. Individuals and families who do not qualify for Medicaid or SCHIP but still need financial assistance will receive an income-related federal subsidy to buy into the new public plan or purchase a private health care plan.

Barack Obama’s Record

Health Insurance: In 2003, Barack Obama sponsored and passed legislation that expanded health care coverage to 70,000 kids and 84,000 adults. In the U.S. Senate, Obama cosponsored the Healthy Kids Act of 2007 and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Reauthorization Act of 2007 to ensure that more American children have affordable health care coverage.
Women’s Health: Obama worked to pass a number of laws in Illinois and Washington to improve the health of women. His accomplishments include creating a task force on cervical cancer, providing greater access to ****** and cervical cancer screenings, and helping improve prenatal and premature birth services.

The Edwards plan still uses the HMOs and health insurance companies, with the stated goal of eventually phasing them out in favor of the single-payer universal health care model.

I’m against socialized medicine but your answer would be Clinton. Obama wants to socialize it in a way that makes it more affordable for everybody. Clinton wants to make it more or less free to people who can’t afford it.

But, if you think government run health care is the way to go, we already have it.

Most people call it “Walter Reed Army Medical Center”.

You know, the one that often makes the news for not being able to take care of our troops who are injured. They have to wait 6 months for surgeries they need today.

It’s your vote and it’s a free country, but based on how well it’s not working for the rest of the world and that we already have a failing example, that’s all I need to know.

Not to mention, for a country without socialized medicine, we do have a pretty high recovery/survival rate.

I don’t know your situation. I do know a few people who are hurting VERY badly right now and cannot afford things on their own. There are options. I have a family member in that situation right now. Unfortunately, a lot of the people using the free services available caused their own health problems. I think priority should go to people who did not live a lifestyle resulting in their health issues, at least for the currently free solutions.

Nobody gets denied health care who REALLY needs it anyway. There’s always a way be it NPO Hospitals to spending 6 hours on the phone making the right calls as I have done for family members.