Obama, McCain and Health Care
September 28, 2008
Some people get health insurance from their jobs. Some people don’t. It is not uncommon for one spouse to have health insurance from their jobs and another spouse not to get health insurance. Sometimes there is just a lack of affordability for health insurance.
Buying health insurance for oneself may not give you all the benefits you want and you will be penalized for poor health. The crisis in the financial industry has taken center stage on media. However the health care problem is more deep rooted and many families are having to deal with it.
Of Alabamians, one in five working age adults lack health insurance. One in five is also eligible for Medicaid. This coverage is likely to consume 31 percent of the general fund budget. Alabama has the highest stroke risk, second highest obesity rate and third highest infant mortality rate.
Doctors and dentists are not easily available in Alabama. Obama looks at health care as a central part of his poll issues. McCain does not have a lengthy proposal for health insurance but he wants a major change in the purchasing process of insurance as well.
Whoever becomes president and whether a free market solution is found for health insurance as propounded by McCain or another proposal takes effect, lets hope the public benefits.
