A comparison/analysis of each candidate's healthcare plan

[cryofan]

Very good. Looks like we lost a good one when we lost Gephardt. He was my top choice at the time, and his plan was really the best of the viable candidates.

some excerpts:

WASHINGTON — It is a political paradox. Both in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, voters ranked health care at the top when asked which issues most concerned them.

But health care has been almost a nonissue in shaping voters' decisions on which candidates to support, polls in the contests showed.

The results indicate that none of the contenders has found a way to draw clear distinctions for voters among their competing plans — all of which represent ambitious efforts to provide insurance to many of the nearly 44 million Americans without it.

"All of us have been unsuccessful at developing a differentiated position," said Ed Reilly, the pollster for Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri. Gephardt centered his presidential campaign on a proposal to provide nearly universal health care, but withdrew after a poor finish in Iowa.
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More here:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-health29jan29,1,2831020.story?coll=la-news-politics-national