Clinton's Health Care Plan

I found this article on the website for the St. Louis Post Dispatch. It concerned the Democratic front runner for the 2008 election Hilary Clinton's new plan for universal health care. She called for a requirement for businesses to obtain insurance for employees, and said the wealthy should pay higher taxes to help defray the cost for those less able to pay for it. Clinton also stated that people satisfied with their current health care plan can chose to stay with their current health care providers. "I know my Republican opponents will try to equate health care for all Americans with government-run health care," Clinton said. "Don't let them fool us again. This is not government-run." This plan would force every person, man, woman, and child, to have adaquate health care. Large buinesses would be required to put certain amount of money into a pool that would expand coverage for their employees. Indiviadual and small buisnesses would be offered some type of tax break to compensate to provide adaquate health insureance.

Overall, I think that the author of the article, Beth Fouhy, did a very good job of not showing her own personal bias on the health care plan proposed by Hilary Clinton, but I also beileive that the entire article had a slight bias for Hilary Clinton or the democratic party as a whole. The quote "won't make me the insurance industry's woman of the year," ilistrates that the author of the article was attempting to portray Mrs. Clinton in a positive light.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/politics/story/B9CD367CD4C23B678625735A0013D7D3?OpenDocument