Tuesday, September 16, 2008

More Studies Confirm: Obama Healthcare Plan Would Cover 34 Million Uninsured, McCain's Would Cover 5 Million


I had written about the Economic Policy Institute's (EPI) study in the Top Reasons to Support Obama Over McCain list, but there are now even more independent sources coming out with similar results.

"Barack Obama and John McCain are both proposing more than $100 billion a year in spending for health care, but the candidates' plans have vastly different goals, and vastly different outcomes.

New studies from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and the policy journal Health Affairs suggest that Obama's proposal would eventually cover more than 34 million of the roughly 47 million Americans currently without insurance, while McCain's would cover at best 5 million uninsured.

Read the full story here.

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