Kerry health plan would fail, say critics

[Hook Dem]

Kerry health plan would fail, say critics
Recycled Clinton concept favors healthy, avoids sick
By Laura Gilcrest, CBS Marke ch
Last Update: 2:54 PM ET Oct. 18, 2004 E-mail it | Print | Alert | Reprint | RSS
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Critics of Sen. John Kerry's health care plan say that one aspect of the scheme, the Congressional Health Plan, is simply a reincarnation of an old Clinton administration idea that is doomed to fail.

The plan would open up to the entire country the health insurance scheme that federal employees have had for years under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan.

Depending on where he or she lives, a worker enrolled in the federal health plan can choose from between 10 and 20 different health insurance plans, ranging from HMOs to fee-for-service schemes.

Kerry's proposal would allow small businesses -- those with 50 or fewer employees -- to buy into the federal health plan via purchasing pools. Larger companies could also access the program by sponsoring the health benefits at their work sites.

Champions of the Kerry plan claim it would allow U.S. employees to choose a health plan tailored to their own medical needs, cutting costs in the process. But opponents of the program say that it actually creates "perverse incentives" that will shift most health insurance dollars to healthy enrollees, while the costly, chronically ill will be left in the lurch.

The Congressional Health Plan is actually the failed "managed compe ion" scheme that then-First Lady Hillary Clinton floated a decade ago, said John Goodman, president of the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis and architect of the health savings account concept.

That aspect of Kerry's health care proposal "will morph into the Clinton plan very quickly because it's got all of the same problems," he said.

Click on link below to view the entire article. Basically, it is the old failed Clinton plan and this from CBS!!


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[Bandit2981]

Bush plan has failed, say millions of americans who don't have insurance

[Hook Dem]

Bush plan has failed, say millions of americans who don't have insurance

My dog is better than your dog!

[ClintSquint]

There are also those who say it won't.
Throw a group of so called "experts" in a room and throw a dart and you'll get a different answer from each one of them.
Bottomline, their opinion is as good as mine.

[Hook Dem]

There are also those who say it won't.
Throw a group of so called "experts" in a room and throw a dart and you'll get a different answer from each one of them.
Bottomline, their opinion is as good as mine.

I'm gonna agree with you on that one Clint!