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Presidential candidates on healthcare

   July 6, 2007

The NY Times (Graphic: Candidates on Health Care ) has a great table on the positions of the various presidential candidates on healthcare:

Republicans:

Sam Brownback: market-based health care; establish regulatory competition among states

Rudy Giuliani: market-based health care; make private insurance affordable through tax deductions

Mike Huckabee: market-based health care; make private insurance affordable through tax deductions and cost control measures

Duncan Hunter: market-based health care; opposed to government-subsidized universal health care

John McCain: Affordable health care for every American without a federal mandate; expected to release a detailed plan this summer

Ron Paul: market-based health care; opposed to federal mandate

Mitt Romney:Encourage states to develop market-based health care programs; opposed to a national version of the plan he supported for Massachussets as governor of the state, requiring everyone to get insurance

Tom Tancredo: market-based health care; would not rule out federal subsidies for the needy

Tommy Thompson: Make health care more affordable and accessible without federal mandate

Democrats

Joseph Biden: Immediately insure everyone under 18

Hillary Clinton: Pledges to insure everyone

Chris Dodd: Universal healthcare subsidized by government and employers

John Edwards: Require everyone to get insurance, subsidized by employers and the government

Mike Gravel: Issue vouchers to everyone based on their projected needs

Dennis Kucinich: Establish medicare for all

Barack Obama: Require children to get insurance; Aims for universal coverage

Bill Richardson: Require everyone to get insurance, subsidized by employers and the government

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