Friday, September 5, 2008

McCain and Obama on Health Care

By Nathan Benefield

While health care policy won't getthe level ofmedia coverage as Sarah Palin's teenage daughter or Barack Obama's crazy pastor, some people might be interested in looking at the candidates proposals on that.

The NCPA has put together a brief analysis of both the McCain plan and the Obama plan.

- The John McCain Health Plan
- The Barack Obama Health Plan

The Cato Institute also released a policy brief a few weeks ago describing the McCain and Obama plans on health care.

[Editor's note: The focus here is on state rather than national politics, but there are a few rare exceptions. With the national conventions over, it may be worthwhile to take a glance at what's going on with the presidential candidates. We now resume our look at state issues.]