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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (3767)	1/11/2008 3:12:27 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

Looking at that link, and others found through google, its not clear that they do have an agenda to expand government provision of health care or payment for health care. There are some indications of support for that idea from them, but no solid indication that its one of their main ideas. Their main thrusts seem to be improving local provision of health systems through providing education to local providers, and providing disaster relief. Neither of those main areas of concern seem to apply a very political agenda. OTOH this study doesn't seem to be strongly connected to those areas of concern. I haven't found enough to outright say they don't have some agenda for more socialized health care insurance, but I haven't found any evidence that strongly supports the contention that they do have such an agenda. Edit - I can't seem to find any mention of the study on Project Hope's website. Edit - On the Health Affairs web site I do see some support for more socialized health care payment system in the US "SCHIP: Not-So-Happy New Year December 18th, 2007 by Sarah Dine Sarah Dine View Author Bio Perhaps the signal event in federal health policy for 2007 is the failure to reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). On Wednesday, December 13, President Bush vetoed the second version of the SCHIP reauthorization..." healthaffairs.org and healthaffairs.org I'm not sure of the exact connection between healthaffairs.org and Project Hope, but the study was published on Heatlh Affairs site.