Presidential Candidates on Health Care

This article summarizes the three presidential candidates' health plans.
Clinton: Requires everyone to purchase health insurance, make employers provide insurance in large companies and have tax cuts for small companies that provide health care for their employees. She would make insurance portable from job to job and increase the use of government programs. Make it illegal for insurance companies to charge more or refuse service if someone has a preexisting condition.
Obama: Require everyone to provide health insurance for children. Make employers in large companies pay for insurance, have tax cuts for small company employers who provide health care, make insurance portable form job to job, and increase the use of government programs. Make it illegal for insurance companies to refuse service or charge more if someone has a preexisting condition.
Difference: The only difference between these two plans is that Clinton would require that everyone purchase health insurance, and while Obama says that people would buy it willingly without a mandate. If that is the case then the mandate is unnecessary and there will be no difference between Clinton and Obama's health care plans.
McCain: Increase competition between insurance companies, provide tax cuts for people who purchase their own insurance, make insurance portable from job to job or in other states.
I think that Clinton and Obama have really good health care plans. They are both as fool proof as possible and will greatly benefit our country. McCain's plan is a little idealistic, his ideas seem nice, but when it comes down to it, there will be no change, McCain's plan is based upon the assumption that the price of insurance will drop enough to make it affordable for everyone. I do not believe that this will ever happen.

"The Issues: Health Care." nytime.com. May 29, 2008. <http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/issues/health.html>