Look here: http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/
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That's where I quoted from. I read the entire page. Every bullet point is just an initiative and end result. None of it is a concrete plan on how to get there in a feasible economic fashion.
Admittedly this is a problem with almost all candidates, but it seems a particular problem with him. For instance, when it comes to health care I know Hillary's stance on it very well. I know not only what she would like to see but how she plans to get there, not only from the things she has said, but from the things she has attempted in the '90s during her husband's term of office. And I know that her plan is completely unfeasible economically speaking. That's one of the reasons I can outright reject her.
I don't know anything from reading this page from Obama except that he knows what he wants the end result to be. There are a few vague details like the blurb about the "National Heatlh Care Exchange" for oversight, or "modernizing the American Health care system", but all of those fall into the category of claims made by politicians with unknown plans since health care problems became a focus of American politics. I don't see anything that outlines his plan to increase health care coverage while lowering health care costs. I just see a list of "wants". We are well past the era of Keynesian economics, in which politicians seriously believed that they could just print more money, or dictate prices in order to keep costs down. All of those methods are loans on future capital, and since economic trends and values are in fact realities, dictations and stretchings of this sort always come back later demanding payment with interest.
Even hardcore economic conservative Republicans could list most of what he has listed here and still get elected by promising it would happen if we lessened restrictions on the industry rather than raising them. The fact is that the health care system, meaning what it is now as well as the history that has led it to be in the state it is in, is just too complex a story to be answered by political promises and declarations that favor style over substance, or which focus on telling us what we want to hear rather than on how we can actually get there. The "health care crisis" in America is at its core an economic crisis. Even the issue of coverage is at its core an issue of the high and continually rising cost of health care. No plan to revamp it is going to be credible without an analysis of the root economic issues behind the high cost. This list, on the other hand, reads like a magic potion recipe.
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