Thursday, October 2, 2008

Health Care and Insurance Reform Delayed Due to Economy?

By Ethan Calvin

The Miami Herald reports that a conference was held in Orlando, Florida with health care experts, as well as politicians, doctors and economists. They debated whether the poor economy will effect the reform of health insurance and health care.

Conferences like the one held in Orlando usually only result in one agreement: that we do not all agree on the topic of health care and insurance reform. This conference seemed to follow suit.

James Carville, a Democratic strategist, said that health reforms would probably have to wait. His basic argument was that the federal government will have their hands too full trying to save Wall Street, and health reform will have to wait for a better economy, wrote the article.

Shockingly, Republican strategist Karl Rove, disagreed. Rove contended that health insurance reform as Republican presidential candidate John McCain - tax credits and deregulated markets - proposed doesn't require a good economy.

Countering, a representative for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said tough times like these are when we really need reform. Florida Governor Charlie Crist reasoned that state governments should take responsibility for health care and insurance reform. Governor Crist recently championed a Florida health insurance law that offers affordable health plans with limited benefits. "There's such a difficulty getting anything done in Washington," said Crist. And there's certainly a lot of truth to that. - 15224

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