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Health Advocates: Bush's Speech Is "Step Back" for Nevada

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Wednesday, January 24, 2007   

President Bush's State of the Union Address last night met with a thud for most health care experts in Nevada. Caroline Ford, Assistant Dean for the University of Nevada's School of Medicine, said Bush's plan to tax those with good health insurance doesn't work in a state where so many residents are uninsured.

"So we haven't quite gotten up to the point where we have successfully been able to insure our own residents with an adequate health care plan, much less one with average benefits."

Ford believes the plan didn't put enough money on the table to meet Nevada's needs as a rural state.

"Resources that have gone to national security and away from public health have put the country in arrears with some of the significant gains we needed to make with public health."

She adds Nevada's first step should be insuring the state's 106,000 uninsured children. So far, not a lot of health care professionals are supporting the plan.

Don McCanne, a medical doctor and senior health policy fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program, concurs Bush's plan to increase taxes on people who have good employer-provided insurance in order to give tax breaks to those buying private insurance does nothing for most of the uninsured who have low incomes and don't pay taxes.

"They still won't be able to afford health care but their employers are accelerating the rate at which they are discontinuing coverage."

Congressional reaction to Bush's plan was sober, with Democrats highly skeptical. The American Enterprise Institute says the plan is more consumer-driven and would save money in the long-run.




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