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[Media Mouse: News Briefs] National and International Headlines for February 5: The plans differ on requiring Americans to buy insurance--the Clinton plan would make it mandatory, while the Obama plan would only require the purchase of insurance for children. Neither plan offers the single-payer system favored by a majority of Americans, according to public opinion polls.
[The Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program: Publications, Events and More] Shannon Brownlee, Jacob Hacker in Chrisitan Science Monitor ...: Professor Hacker's template, outlined in an Economic Policy Institute briefing paper, notes: "America's $2.2 trillion-a-year medical complex is enormously wasteful, ill-targeted, inefficient, and unfair. The best medical care is extremely good, but the Rube Goldberg system through which that care is financed is extremely bad - and falling apart."
[World Prout Assembly] Dennis Kucinich's Fight to Bring Credibility to the Democratic Party: NAFTA, GAT, the WTO, China Trade, and every other trade agreement that's passed in Congress has been passed with the help of either the leadership of or with the help of the Democratic Party, knowing that each and every one of those agreements was devoid of protections for workers, knowing that if you don't have workers' rights put into a trade agreement then workers here in the United States are going to see their own bargaining position undermined because corporations can move jobs out of the country to places where workers don't have any rights. They don't have the right to organize, the right to collective bargaining, the right to strike.
[GNN Blogs] Cynthia McKinney and the Reconstruction party Manifesto: Both African-Americans and Latinos have been disproportionately hit by the higher-cost loans that characterize sub-prime lending. Just in the sub-prime mortgage crisis alone, Latino families have lost between $76 and $98 billion, due to predatory lending practices on the part of lending institutions.
[I HATE BUSH] Backtrack Obama - and why I'm for Hillary: For instance, he has a lot of good ideas, like providing $4,000 for every college student, eliminating taxes on social security earners who make less than $50,000 - the total of his campaign promises are over $1.45 trillion dollars per year in new spending. He's been answering the question of "how are you going to pay for that" with pointing to two sources - a Government Accountability Office study that says that the U.S. can save over $1.3 trillion dollars by eliminating wasteful and unneeded programs, and by ending the $300 billion of annual spending on the Iraq War.
[Most Boringest Journal Ever] I know, I know...: Obama proposes a 1.3 trillion dollar tax increase that mostly affects the middle class to stabilize social security, Hillary believes it can be done by rolling back the Bush tax cuts for the rich only (such as, but not limited to, the capital gains taxes and the tax cuts on the highest end tax bracket of Americans), without affecting the middle class.
[John Von Hollen's Blog] Extended conversation with a conservative friend: I am confused by your mention of govt spending versus other countries: do you really think govt spending would decrease under either obama's or clinton's plan? If you feel that the govt can do a good job with healthcare just like it does for education, then I don't think these convos will be going anywhere J That being said, our system does have its problems, but I don't think that a Universal Healthcare system is the answer to those problems, especially since it would increase government and taxpayer costs.
[Your Health and Balance] The Next Failure of Health Care Reform: The problem with this mandate is not only--as Obama has pointed out--the matter of enforcement (note that according to some estimates, up to 20% of car owners drive without car insurance), but the assumption behind the policy. The assumption is that most people who are not insured are "free-riders," people who could afford to buy insurance but choose not to, and choose to let someone else pay for their care when they get sick.
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