[Download] "Too Hot for Politics to Handle? Hard Questions About Health Insurance (Policy & Politics)" by The Hastings Center Report ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Too Hot for Politics to Handle? Hard Questions About Health Insurance (Policy & Politics)
- Author : The Hastings Center Report
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 166 KB
Description
Presidential candidates often fall back on language and images from their respective parties. McCain and Republicans tout the virtues of private insurance and competitive markets in making health care more accessible and priceworthy. Obama and Democrats emphasize the urgency of widening access and the critical role of government in restraining the insurance company behavior that impedes it. But McCain is no hard-line conservative, and Obama, though generally liberal, is not terribly enamored of the heavy hand of central government. Given the moderate nature of their views and the fact that both layer their proposals for health care reform on a base of market competition, one might expect some genuine dialogue to emerge from them about actual solutions to the country's horrendous problems of access and cost. But don't hold your breath. The hard questions these candidates should face are so disturbing for each of them that neither may rise to the challenge.