Competing visions on health care

 
By Merrill Mathews
Published: August 29, 2008

Despite his image as a politician who transcends party boundaries, Barack Obama 's health care platform is mostly composed of proposals long propounded by the Democratic mainstream. And it just won't work.

Take his plan to expand Medicaid , primarily by adjusting the eligibility criteria to include families earning up to $84,800 a year.

Many patients already enrolled in Medicaid can't get medical care. Administr...


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