Health Care Event

Once again, this is covered pretty thouroughly elsewhere, but there was a great big event focusing on the Dems plan for healthcare, with Bob Shamansky in the starring role. Video is available from the Shamansky website or BSB.

Pictures available at Ohio Elections 2006.

Text available at OH-12.

This is the 4 point plan:

• Healthcare coverage should be affordable to all Americans


• Healthcare coverage costs should be contained


• Proposed healthcare plans must guarantee choice of doctors


• Proposed healthcare plans must prioritize the role of preventive medicine.

Ahhh. This is another good example of the difference between campaigning and governing. I'd have an easier time getting excited about actual proposals than about guidelines for what proposals should/must look like.

Sigh.

I know you can't detail policy in an election. You just can't. You can only set priorities. You write the legislation in the House itself. If we want a debate on exactly how to improve health care for everyone, we need a Democratic Congress. You don't hear Pat Tiberi running on comprehensive health care reform. Americans overwhelmingly believe that Democrats are most likely to improve the healthcare system in the U.S. We're right. It's good to keep reminding us.