Voter Confusion over Obama's Health Care Plan
Key quote: "Although economic issues have taken the forefront in the campaign, healthcare has remained a consistently important concern for voters—including independents."
Key quote: "Although economic issues have taken the forefront in the campaign, healthcare has remained a consistently important concern for voters—including independents."
Key quote: "Corporate benefits executives by a wide margin prefer Senator Barack Obama's health-care reform proposal, which would compel all employers to offer health insurance, over Senator John McCain's proposed repeal of the tax exclusion for employer–based health coverage, according to a newly released survey. "
Key Quote: "It is one of the most audacious promises in a campaign that has been thick with them."
Key Quote: "It was the worst of days, it was the best of days. On Wednesday, Senate Democrats capitulated to the Bush administration on wiretapping — with Barack Obama joining the coalition of the craven."
Key quote: " Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) on Thursday during a rally at a Bristol, Va., high school said that the health care proposal of presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) would not expand health insurance to all U.S. residents, the Washington Times reports."
Key quote: "Elizabeth Edwards put in a plug yesterday for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's health-care plan - possibly the closest either Democratic presidential candidate is likely to get to an endorsement from former rival John Edwards or his wife."
Key quote: "Campaigning in Texarkana, (Bill) Clinton said New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's plan to require everyone to have health insurance would solve what he described as a national problem. Clinton contrasted that plan to her chief rival's, Sen. Barack Obama, whose plan does not mandate everyone to purchase health care."
Key quote: "The principal policy division between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama involves health care."
Key Quote: "Obama's ad touting his health care plan quotes phrases from newspaper articles and an editorial, but makes them sound more laudatory and authoritative than they actually are."
Key quote: "Obama knows that if he tries to include a mandate in the plan, he'll face a barrage of misleading attacks from conservatives who oppose universal health care in any form. And he'll have trouble responding - because he made the very same misleading attacks on Hillary Clinton and John Edwards during the race for the Democratic nomination."
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