Special Report: National Financial crisis threatens US health reform

摘要

The US presidential candidates' plans for healthcare reform offer substantial contrasts, but both are likely to be greatly affected by the USDollars 700 billion (?4 billion) government plan to rescue the US financial sector passed by the US House of Representatives on Oct3,2008."Both candidates' health plans are expensive and imply new federal spending", says Sherry Glied (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA). "But these are very different plans. We have not previously seen candidates offer plans as different as these two."