Hillary's healthcare plan ...

[online.education]

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Hillary's American Health Choices Plan covers all Americans and improves health care by lowering costs and improving quality. It speaks to American values, American families, and American jobs.

It puts the consumer in the driver's seat by offering more choices and lowering costs. If you're one of the tens of million Americans without coverage or if you don't like the coverage you have, you will have a choice of plans to pick from and that coverage will be affordable. Of course, if you like the plan you have, you can keep it.

* Affordable: Unlike the current health system where insurance premiums send people into bankruptcy, the plan provides tax credits for working families to help them cover their costs. The tax credits will ensure that working families never have to pay more than a limited percentage of their income for health care.

* Available: No discrimination. The insurance companies can't deny you coverage if you have a pre-existing condition.

* Reliable: It's portable. If you change or lose your job, you keep your health care.

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http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/healthcareplan/


I can't help thinking that this is just another government handout to certain companies. Obviously, it's not a good idea to not have any healthcare coverage, but do you need to be forced by the government to have one? If you can't afford it, then the government pays for it, and that money goes to healthcare coverage providers ...

This scheme sounds like another (unnecessary) subsidy ...

That's my take, but ... I haven't looked into this very closely (not lately anyway), so ... it would be great if someone who's familiar with this can first explain to me exactly how it works, what she (Hillary) gets out of this ...

[Sar]

I'm going by my knowledge, so don't expect it to be the best or accurate.

The thing about healthcare is that it helps people purchase medications and/or surgeries by alleviating some of the upfront costs. Of course what doctors/surgeons you can use is often limited by the healthcare agency, so you have to pick and choose, as well as how much you're willing to spend. I do not know if it is classified as an insurance or not, I'm a bit confused between the two terms (healthcare and health insurance). Medicare and Medicaid are two healthcare providers for example, and they help seniors get things like wheel scooters and needed medicines (such as diabetes medicines for diabetics).

Hilliary would be doing this strictly for a rise of popularity among the Democrats. Not a lot of decent healthcare plans (or health insurances, again confusion) are inexpensive for the average person, so often the business they work at often supplies it for them. However with the CEOs demanding more money than is needed, they have cut healthcare out of their spending systems.

I'm pretty mixed on the idea at first reading it, but I don't think it should be released. We (the American people) already in enough debt in our government system, and the government should aim more into removing the corrupted CEOs and putting more money back into the taxpayer's pockets. Yes I am aware this is a free enterprise system (capitalism is the wrong term), but there have been times where the government stepped in to remove corruption, and I believe they should do it again.