Obama and Health Care

October 03, 2008

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."

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September 18, 2008

Benefits Execs Prefer Obama's Health Plan

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. "

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July 22, 2008

Obstacles for Obama in Meeting Health Care Goal

Key Quote: "It is one of the most audacious promises in a campaign that has been thick with them."

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July 11, 2008

Kennedy’s Big Day

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."

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June 09, 2008

Obama Criticizes McCain's Health Care Proposal

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."

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April 10, 2008

Who has the better health plan?

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."

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February 15, 2008

Bill Clinton knocks Obama on health care

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."

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February 04, 2008

Obama's insurance plan

Key quote: "The principal policy division between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama involves health care."

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January 03, 2008

Obama's Creative Clippings: Embellished and Out-of-Context Quotes

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."

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December 10, 2007

Obama short-sighted on health care

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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