Yesterday Hillary Clinton announced in general terms her proposals for health care reform. Clinton calls for universal health care - Yahoo! News
There are a lot of similarities with Obama's and Edward's plans, but her plan is a bit more thought out and addresses some issues that the other plans do not. Despite Romney's cries of socialized medicine (odd, being he did originally support MA's plan), neither her proposal and nor anyone else's proposal is for a government run system. Like Obama's and Edward's plan, insurance companies stay in the mix. Unlike Obama's plan, her plan requires everyone to be insured but limits the amount people will have to pay for that insurance based on their income. Requiring all to be covered is important, otherwise the plans will do little to address the 47 million uninsured and issues of adverse selection will persist. One unique aspect of her plan is that she will allow people to retain insurance that they have through work or otherwise, but if you chose, you can buy into a public plan, medicare. You can do this no matter how old or young you are and no matter what your income. This would be an interesting experiment because the public plan would compete with the private plans.
Anyway, as is true of all the candidates, there isn't a lot of detail.
There are a lot of similarities with Obama's and Edward's plans, but her plan is a bit more thought out and addresses some issues that the other plans do not. Despite Romney's cries of socialized medicine (odd, being he did originally support MA's plan), neither her proposal and nor anyone else's proposal is for a government run system. Like Obama's and Edward's plan, insurance companies stay in the mix. Unlike Obama's plan, her plan requires everyone to be insured but limits the amount people will have to pay for that insurance based on their income. Requiring all to be covered is important, otherwise the plans will do little to address the 47 million uninsured and issues of adverse selection will persist. One unique aspect of her plan is that she will allow people to retain insurance that they have through work or otherwise, but if you chose, you can buy into a public plan, medicare. You can do this no matter how old or young you are and no matter what your income. This would be an interesting experiment because the public plan would compete with the private plans.
Anyway, as is true of all the candidates, there isn't a lot of detail.