Thursday, October 2, 2008

Health Care and Insurance Reform Delayed Due to Economy?

By Ethan Calvin

A conference in Orlando, Florida had health care experts, politicians, doctors and economists had talks about the poor economy's effect on health care and insurance reform. This was reported in the Miami Herald.

Usually these conferences only point out that we all don't agree on health care and insurance reform. This seemed to be the case here, as well.

The Miami Herald article writes that James Carville, democratic strategist, thinks that health reform will have to wait until the economy is better. He says that the federal government will be consuming their efforts with saving Wall Street first.

Karl Rove, republican strategist, disagrees, surprisingly. Rove states that John McCain's health insurance reform, which is proposed as tax credits and deregulated markets, does not need a good economy to work.

Tough times like these is when reform is needed most, counters an Obama representative. Florida governor, Charlie Crist, says that is should be the state's responsibility in regards to health care and insurance reform. He also backed a law recently that offers affordable health plans with limited benefits. Crist states, "There's such a difficulty getting anything done in Washington." This seems to be the truth.

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