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[…] no single payer, no individual mandate to have insurance here (like Massachusetts). There are other no shows as […]

At least Clinton and Edwards address health quality and preventive care. Maybe it will develop over time, but Obama’s plan to me seems not to constitute health care reform, or even insurance reform, but merely coverage reform. If we can get rid of a lot of the administrative waste in the system, and implement preventive care and chronic disease management that works (including eliminating perverse reimbursement incentives), we might be able to afford to cover everybody - as Clinton has pointed out - but Obama is (so far) just adding more bureaucracy and confusion and, as he has pointed out, we’d have to raise taxes.

Now, I don’t mind raising taxes if it’s for cause, but I don’t see why we should need to for health care. We really need to be aiming to lower health care costs, even - especially - as we expand coverage, and Obama’s plan doesn’t address that.

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