Top Three Presidential Candidates Health Care Reform Proposals
Leading Presidential Candidates-Clinton, McCain, Obama Proposals for Health Care Reform Two weeks ago I wrote an article about the five fundamental questions that need to be asked in order to design optimum health care reforms in the United States. This week�s column analyzes the leading presidential candidates Senators Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, and John McCain proposals on health care reforms and how their ideas would address these five concerns: Access to Care Optimization of Government Purchasing for Medicare and other Programs Reimbursement Alignment for Desired Clinical Outcomes Streamlining the Health Care System Administratively Financing Health Care for all Access to Care The three questions that must be addressed in order to answer the access question are: Do the proposed changes provide health care coverage for all residents, or at least a close approximation of that? Secondly, do their proposals address adequacy of reimbursements for health care clinicians and facilities...