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Clinton campaign demands Obama ad be taken down

MANCHESTER, N.H. — With new polls out this morning showing Barack Obama still leading Hillary Clinton in Iowa and gaining ground on her in New Hampshire, Clinton’s national campaign manager is calling on Obama to remove an ad that began airing in the Granite State yesterday they said was “misleading”.

Clinton’s campaign contends Obama’s ad above for his version of a health care plan does not mandate health insurance coverage for everyone like the Clinton and Edwards plan. The Clinton campaign also suggests the ad is misleading for giving the impression that it does.

The health care plans, proposals or whatever you want to call them that have been suggested or implemented to date are missing the larger point. These ‘plans’ will not solve the health care issue in this country. If health insurance coverage is a concern then finding a way for everyone to be covered is an understandable objective. But it does little to solve the larger questions of the successful delivery of health care or controlling the associated out of control costs.

It has become a game entirely focused on shifting the cost of health care to someone else rather than everyone sharing the burden and taking responsibility to control costs. With the advent of offshore outsourcing trends as well as importing cheap labor thru visas, illegal immigration and the like, not only have the real wages of the American worker continued to drop but pension or retirement plans as well as health care coverage are being abandoned by employers.

Entitlements or other government mandates merely shift the cost to the taxpayer. Government funds are, after all, public money in the form of tax revenue. Private insurance controls their costs by limiting claims and increasing premiums. Health care providers have been unable in many cases to demonstrate their methods for determining the price of care. The general public shares the guilt for their contribution to rising costs for feeling entitled to health care and having someone else pay for it.

The abuses in the form of fraud, the costs associated with malpractice, the needless additions of discretionary care to mandatory care or other unnecessary costs have also contributed to the problem. And the influence of lobbyists for the health care industry are at work right now to gain an advantage if a health care plan results from the 2008 Presidential campaign.

The big push by the three leading Democratic party candidates to offer ‘universal’ anything for health care can be viewed as merely another attempt to gain favor with the voting public. If it is true that Obama’s plan does not mandate coverage for all Americans, it may in fact be a superior proposal. But the likelihood with any of their plans is they will only add to the overall cost of health care, shifting more burden to the taxpayer if they even become a reality. We already have an example of a national health care plan from Clinton that failed. Her current plan is nothing more than repackaging the previous failure. And the other two plans are primarily mirror images of hers.

This post may cause you to wonder about the Romney plan that was implemented in the state of Massachusetts. Whether you view it as positive or negative, a recent report suggested it could work in MA. due to funding that was already available to get it started and having it duplicated elsewhere without that funding would be very difficult. Just like in Massachusetts, to implement any plan requires more than the one person proposing it. Just like the health care issue itself it requires participation from everyone to find solutions.

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