by Bill Scher | Mar 26, 2007 | Blog
Some reactions to Saturday's presidential candidate forum on health care from around the blogosphere. Taylor Marsh and Eteraz.org say Sen. Hillary Clinton had the strongest presentation, while Nevada Today's Hugh Jackson (link via Nevada Caucus 2008) talks up former...
by Bill Scher | Mar 26, 2007 | Blog
The following analysis of Saturday's presidential candidate forum on health care is excerpted from the full essay written by Prof. Jacob S. Hacker of Yale University. Hacker is the author of "The Great Risk Shift," as well as the “Health Care for America” proposal...
by Bill Scher | Mar 26, 2007 | Blog
After watching Saturday's presidential candidate forum on health care, and judging the candidates using Roger Hickey's five health care questions, I'm left with key questions for each Oval Office aspirant. To former Sen. John Edwards: your plan sets up competition...
by Roger Hickey | Mar 26, 2007 | Blog
At Saturday’s health care forum for presidential candidates, John Edwards was bold, detailed and specific—but didn’t diagnose the problem. Barack Obama was vague—but stressed that no president can do it without the people. Dennis Kucinich diagnosed the problem, and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 25, 2007 | Blog
Former Alaska senator Mike Gravel proposed a single-payer system of sorts, but under his system each American would get a health care voucher that they would use to purchase their choice of five or six private insurance plans. “Everyone gets the same product. If you...
