Federalist/Anti-Federalist
Federalists are people who believe in big government. They think that government can solve health care and education problems. For example, not everyone has health care. They can’t go to the doctor when they’re sick. That’s just not fair or right. Obama think that everyone should have access to health care. What if your baby is sick? Obama says that we should have “Mandatory coverage for children.” All children will be able to go to the doctor. A lot of things can happen depending upon your situation. If you don’t get the medicine you need in time, then things may happen. Depending upon the person’s situation and how sick they are, they could die.
The United States is the richest country in the world. You can have the richest country but not have the right doctors. Not all doctors know what they’re doing. They might not follow the right steps. According to the Center for Disease Control, “the United States ranks 17th in average life expectancy on a list of 33 developed nations, while Japan holds the lead.” People have to take care of themselves too, they can’t just rely on doctors and we may not eat as healthy or exercise as much as other countries do. However, people should still have health care.
Anti-Federalists are basically against what the federalists are proposing. They don’t think that problems can be solved by government. For example, McCain thinks that there should be “no mandate for universal coverage.” If everyone doesn’t have universal coverage, then they don’t have health care.
McCain believes in No Child Left Behind. It says that students need to take tests to show how much they’ve learned. Taking tests are necessary, but teachers don’t always teach what’s on the State Test. Teachers should teach things they know what’s on the test or students should tested on things that the teachers teach them in class. I am an anti-federalist in education, but a federalist with healthcare.
Health Coverage
Proposal to Expand Coverage
REQUIRE THAT ALL CHILDREN HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE; AIMS FOR UNIVERSAL COVERAGE
Require employers to provide insurance or contribute to the cost, but exempt smallest businesses, and reimburse all employers for catastrophic health costs.
Provide subsidies for low-income people.
Create purchasing pool with choice of competing private plans and one public plan like Medicare.
Make plans portable from job to job.
Expand Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage to people with health problems or charging them higher rates.
"Ninety-five percent of our plans are similar. [Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and I] both want to set up a system in which any person is going to be able to get coverage that is as good as we have as members of Congress. And we are going to subsidize those who can't afford it. We're going to make sure that we reduce costs by emphasizing prevention. And I want to make sure that we're applying technology to improve quality, cut bureaucracy. Now, I also want to make sure that we're reducing costs for those who already have health insurance. So we put in place a catastrophic reinsurance plan that would reduce costs by $2,500 per family per year.
"So we've got a lot of similarities in our plan. We've got a philosophical difference, which we've debated repeatedly, and that is that Senator Clinton believes the only way to achieve universal health care is to force everybody to purchase it. And my belief is, the reason that people don't have it is not because they don't want it but because they can't afford it. And so I emphasize reducing costs."
— Democratic debate, Feb. 21, 2008
Quality Affordable Health Care for All by the End of Barack Obama's First Term in Office
MC Cain
Health Care
OPPOSES MANDATE REQUIRING EVERYONE TO OBTAIN HEALTH INSURANCE; SAID HE WANTS TO GIVE INDIVIDUALS FREEDOM TO CHOOSE THEIR OWN HEALTH CARE; PROVIDE TAX CREDITS; HAS PLEDGED AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR EVERY AMERICAN
Sees controlling health costs as a top priority.
Make plans portable from job to job and accessible across state lines.
Provide $2,500 tax credits for individuals and $5,000 for families to buy their own insurance.
Eliminate the tax deductibility of employer-sponsored health insurance.
Move to compensate medical providers based on the quality of their work.
Bring greater competition to drug markets by safe re importation of drugs and streamlining the process for introducing generic drugs.
Offer federal assistance for states to create high-risk pools that would contract with insurers to cover consumers who have been rejected on the open market.
"The biggest problem with the American health care system is that it costs too much. ... Businesses and families pay more and more every year to get what they often consider to be inadequate attention or poor care."
— Des Moines, Oct. 11, 2007
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