Comparison of Obama, Clinton and McCain's Health Care Plans and How They Rate to One North Carolinian

Health care remains a very large campaign issue for all three candidates. Everybody knows that the system is broken. But nobody seems quite sure how to go about fixing it. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain have some plans, but how valid are these plans? With so many without health care, and the general consensus being that health care is simply not affordable or, in some cases, obtainable, whose plan will work?

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have presented plans that many criticize for being too close to each other. In fact, there is technically only one major difference. Hillary Clinton has decided that the way to assure that all Americans have health care is to force all Americans to have health care. Barack Obama disagrees, offering the plan that only children will be mandated to have health care. However, although this is the portion of their plans that most people are focusing on, this hardly encompasses the whole deal.

Obama's plan, according to USAToday, is expected to cost over $50 billion a year. He expects to make up this sum by cutting back tax breaks to the wealthiest citizens. At base, Obama's plan is about affordability. He wants to make sure that health care costs and health care insurance remain feasible options for all Americans. A lofty goal in this time of health care crisis, but Obama feels secure in his thinking that health care insurance that is affordable will be obtained, even without mandates. Federal government employees currently have reasonable and affordable health care, and Obama purports to be able to make a plan like this available for all people. Subsidies would be offered to help pay for either the public plan or a private insurer. With so many health care scams around, Obama's plan to enact a Watchdog service over the private insurers seems practically a mandate in itself.