Someone whom I admire posted a story yesterday on his choice of candidate and based it on the lack of detail in the recent Plan offered up by the Sanders campaign.
He used his extensive knowledge of the industry and made a very cogent analysis and argument that the plan the Sanders campaign released on Sunday just before the debate was rather skimpy on details. So skimpy that he, even liking candidate Sanders on other issues, was moved to choose Clinton to support for the nomination of the Party.
It was a very convincing argument which he laid out (and you all should go read it right here: On Healthcare, I have to side with Hillary) because he was right. That plan isn’t so much a plan as a Road Map for where Sanders wants to end up.
In particular, the posted Sanders Plan said that there wouldn’t be any co-pays and that it would cover everything. Anyone who has ever worked in healthcare can understand that those two things are highly unworkable from a fiscal standpoint. There is simply no way in the world any healthcare system could ever cover EVERYTHING, what if someone walked into the doctor’s office day after day after day to get their sore thumb treated? It would break the system. Also, even though I don’t subscribe to the “skin in the game” theory of healthcare, everyone except the poorest should be able to pay something at time of service, even if it’s just a $5 or $10 or $20 co-pay for visits and prescriptions.
After I got up today, it struck me that I didn’t know anything about the Clinton Plan for Healthcare, considering the depth that the other story covered the Sanders Plan, I wondered why he didn’t note what it was in the Clinton Plan that had made him so much more satisfied. So I went and looked.
What I saw stunned me.
If the Sanders Plan lacks details, at least it’s a Map to where Sanders wants to take Healthcare to, which is Single Payer.
For Clinton? It’s nothing more than a bunch of “I believe” statements. I’m not kidding.
This is the Hillary Clinton Healthcare Plan from her website at HillaryClinton.com
It is the entire page, nothing is left out:
Do you see ANY details in this “plan” on how to get anything she notes she “defends” or “believes in” or “will work to expand”? Because all I see are a lot of WHAT I WANT TO GET statements and not a single detail on how to get any of it.
Defending good laws is good, I agree, but how will a President Hillary Clinton LOWER OUT OF POCKET COSTS:
Hillary believes that workers should share in slower growth of national health care spending through lower costs.
What about how to REDUCE THE COSTS OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS?
Hillary believes we need to demand lower drug costs for hardworking families and seniors.
Before I go any further, let me further say I’m not beating up on the person who wrote the other story, I like him very much, he is, in fact, the guy who is designing and hosting my campaign website in my run for the 3rd Congressional District of Washington State seat in 2016. I trust and admire his abilities and especially his knowledge of the healthcare system because of his work the past couple of years on his site ACASignups.net
I’m just saying that he analyzed the Sanders plan for details and found it very, very lacking. I just wish he would have done a side-by-side with the Hillary Clinton “plan”, because what he might have determined is that NEITHER ONE OF THEM has a detailed plan.
What they both have are two different visions of where the country should be aiming for on the issue of Healthcare Insurance — and I and a lot of other people just prefer that we start loudly demanding a SIngle Payer system now, and then be willing to settle for a Public Option Federally sponsored Plan for now, and let the President, the Governors, the Congress and the CBO start churning the numbers and work on a detailed plan to get us from HERE to Universal Healthcare Coverage sometime in our lifetimes.
If I’ve missed something and there is a different, actual PLAN from the Clinton campaign which has some actual details on how she would do the things she says she “believes in”, then please point me to it, I’d love to read it.
