Obama vs. McCain: Whose Healthcare Plan Reigns Supreme?

First of all to Emisdad I'd like to say that through Obama's plan it encourages people to be knowledgeable about their risks of disease before progression through Health Promotion tactics. This allows lifestyles to be changed before they develop more serious complications. Whether you as the health care provider agree with their lifestyle or not it is still the patients right of autonomy to choose what they will and will not be compliant with. Regardless if they make poor lifestyle choices they should never be denied basic healthcare in the United States. There are children with obesity and DM whose parents allow them to continue to eat fast food and not have any activity. These same parents would receive the money to provide healthcare to their children through McCain's plan. Yea right!! These type of parents will get that money and pay a bill or do other things with that money. The child would grow up undiagnosed living a sedentary lifestyle and in turn have multiple health problems, having probably never even seen a doctor. I agree that there has to be some type of patient accountability. I'm sure there would be some limitations so that overuse and abuse of the system does not occur. However, children should never be penalized because they do not have choices in such matters. In Obama's plan that comes in to play because people still will have the choice of private insurances. It just ensures that these insurance company's are not taking advantage of people and everything is balanced and fair. It also insures that the children will be insured regardless of the choices of the parents. And I guarantee that if children were insured and parents couldn't use that money on anything aside from insuring the child there would be no people growing up having never seen a doctor.

Senator McCain wouldn't be able to get insurance under his own plan. Right now the private insurance companies are robbing us blind and then not even covering us when we are sick. Of the 2 plans, Obama's is the better. But the best plan is HR 676, the single payer plan that lets you choose your doctor and choose the hospital you need. We all pay into a trust fund and all care providers are paid out of that trust fund. Everybody's covered, everybody's paid. WE all win. That;s the plan I'd like Congress to pass for Obama to sign. Oh and as an aside to cookiemom who thinks that doctors wouldn't be able to travel abroad to do charity work if we moved to a health care system that covered everybody, let me remind you that Doctors without Borders is FRENCH.

Why do you we need a plan? Government regulation has increased dramatically in the last twenty years and so hasn't medical costs. Coincidence? Maybe.

Obama has the better plan. HIs plan encourages tax benefits to employers who are willing to assist the employee with health coverage. He also wants to spend more energy in health promotion and prevention which is what nursing is all about. His "Universal" plan is targeted at groups without insurance or inadequate insurance. Individuals still have the option of "private" insurance. McCains little bit of money will not help my son whose insurance coverage left him with $15,000 of unpaid medical bills after he was hit by a hit and run driver and left for dead. Obama has the better plan !

How does McCain plan to keep insurance intact if you take time off of work to raise a family? If you take time off, and are responsible (at least in part) for your premiums, how do you pay? I can't afford my co-pay now. I am not sure if government involvement is the answer, but we sure need help now. As a healthcare professional, it pains me to see the number of uninsured in America at present. Is it only going to get worse?

McCain has the the best of the two plans.

Obama's plan sounds good, right? The only problem is that Americans historically have not wanted to pay the ENORMOUS costs that universal health care would require. Does anyone remember Hillary Clinton's attempt at universal health coverage? Also I think anyone who believes that the federal government can efficiently run a universal health care plan is absurd. If you want to see how that looks, go to your local social security office and see how effective that system works. I say put this in the hands of the individual states. We definitely need coverage for all Americans but the federal government running it is the wrong answer.