Posted by jba/fl on 7/23/08 2:23am
Msg #256389
NYT: Obama health care vow unrealistic?
Obama’s health care goal faces big obstacles
Candidate's pledge to lower premiums by $2,500 leaves many skeptical
By Kevin Sack
updated 12:15 a.m. ET, Wed., July. 23, 2008
It is one of the most audacious promises in a campaign that has been thick with them.
In speech after speech, Senator Barack Obama has vowed that he will lower the country’s health care costs enough to “bring down premiums by $2,500 for the typical family.” Moreover, Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has promised that his health plan will be in place “by the end of my first term as president of the United States.”
full story:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25807026
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