Word: hmos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...with this idea there were no differences and this was about who's a nice guy. He wanted to show that there were differences, and they were serious." Without someone in the public arena slugging and scratching for them, Gore insists, Americans will be overtaken by the HMOs, prescription-drug companies and big oil. "You've got a lot at stake in this election," he boomed at a rally in Flint, Mich., to a screaming crowd of several thousand. "I ask for your support so I can fight for you, so I can fight for your families...
...Bush didn't speak out on partisan bickering during the fiercest, most personal manifestation of it two years ago, but he wants to end it now, when partisan bickering could clarify the issues. In the last debate, Bush took credit for passing a bill allowing patients to sue HMOs, when he actually fought it. But when he's not falsely claiming credit, he is glossing over the details of what it would really take to deliver love - say, in the form of prescription drugs - to ordinary Americans. He seeks refuge in the mantra, "I trust the people, not the government...
ROUND 1: The first question - vilifying HMOs - seems perfect for Gore. And he does a nice job clarifying the issue and then offering a clear answer. He disagrees with Bush in a nice way and does well. Bush, though, does a good job of making it seem as though he supports an equally expansive patient's bill of rights. (He doesn't.) And he's clearly got the smirk under control. No laughing about frying prisoners this time. It's mellow Bush...
...certainly do have, in this period of prosperity, adequate resources to provide basic health care services to all members of society. However, the current rhetoric skewers those plans that use health maintenance organizations (HMOs) as the model of affordable health care. We will never reach a viable health plan if we insist on the best health care that money can buy for everyone; medical science will always provide newer, more expensive, and more effective treatments for those with the money...
...Medicare. He recently criticized 1997 cutbacks to Medicare and indicated his support for elevating Medicare funding to $339 billion. Yet Bush's and Gore's proposals are not as different as they first appear. Both are advocating centralized health care providers; Bush in the private sphere with multi-state HMOs, Gore in the public, with state-backed Medicare. Properly administered, centralized health care offers many advantages, most important of which is the ease in which standards can be enforced...