Hillary Clinton on Health Care
: Oct 30, 2007 Insurance companies cannot deny people coverage
My proposal gives the insurance companies an ultimatum. They have to get into the business of actually providing insurance, instead of trying to avoid covering people. They cannot deny people coverage. They cannot have a pre-existing condition which is
not covered. That is one of the biggest problems that doctors face. They face this constant barrage of harassment and bureaucratization from the private insurance world. We need to clean up Medicare & Medicaid. They’re not as friendly as they need to be.
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Source: 2007 Democratic debate at Drexel University
Rudy Giuliani on Health Care
: Oct 21, 2007 Medicare and Medicaid need a private solution
Medicare & Medicaid are presently more expensive than Social Security. And within 10 years, they’ll be twice as expensive. So they’re going to go bankrupt a lot faster. And they need a private solution as well [as a private solution for Social Security].
What we need to do if we’re going to bring down the cost of Medicare and Medicaid is bring down the cost of the entire health insurance market. If we have 50 million or 60 million people who bought their own health insurance, the price of health
insurance would be cut in more than half. The people who aren’t presently covered with health insurance are not the poorest people; they’re covered with Medicaid. The people who are presently not covered are all consumers. They have consumer power.
They have to start getting into that market. It’s the only way in which you bring down costs. If you start to establish a private market, you’re going to be able to figure out how to solve these things within costs that are sustainable.
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