Economists take critical view of health plans
09/16/08
From the Washington Post:
John McCain's health plan won't lower the ranks of the uninsured. Barack Obama's fails to curb the soaring cost of health care, meaning initial gains in helping more people buy health insurance would eventually be undermined.
That's the assessment of health care economists who critiqued the plans of the two presidential candidates.
The critiques, published in the journal Health Affairs on Tuesday, reflect fundamental disagreements over how to improve access to health coverage. They also sound warnings about what could go wrong with each candidate's plan.
Richard Kirsch, Campaign Director for Health Care for America Now reacts to analysis:
"I would have hoped instead that Health Affairs, which is after all a publication of Project Hope, would have also invited articles about why each plan would work, instead of featuring articles about each plan's shortcomings."
Read Richard Kirsch's reaction to coverage of the two plans.
