Health care advisers show plan diversity

McCain’s team of advisers is dominated by free market advocates and government waste hunters. Small in number and ideologically tightly knit, the team has produced a targeted mix of spending controls and tax fixes to expand insurance coverage. Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Health
Topics: Presidential Election 2008, John McCain, Obama Administration, Health Care
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Oct 8, 2008 - 10:12 AM PDT
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Oct 8, 2008 - 10:12 AM PDT

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Derek Hawkins
3.6
by Derek Hawkins - Oct. 8, 2008

This story offers insight into how Barack Obama and John McCain have crafted their health care plans, but the reader is left with a lot of work. Hardly any analysis went into this story, so I had to intuit what it means for these two teams of experts to advise the candidates. Informative, yes, but it would have been better fleshed out in a magazine article or feature story.

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Fabrice Florin
3.9
by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 8, 2008

Informative report about the individual advisors that are helping craft each candidate's health plans. The author provides a good overview of key advisors in each brain trust, with commentary from sources across party lines. This helps us better understand who is driving policy on this important topic.

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Kaizar Campwala
3.8
by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 12, 2008

This piece looks at Obama and McCain's health plans by considering the experts each candidate is relying on. It's information I haven't seen elsewhere, but without deeper analysis I'm not sure how much value it adds to the debate on it's own.

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Jim Lang
3.6
by Jim Lang - Oct. 8, 2008

This is an interesting article than ends up being somewhat disappointing. In reviewing expert teams advising McCain and Obama on health care the article touches on a little bit of each campaign's philosophy, a little bit on each candidate's approach to getting and taking advise and a very little bit on the details of each candidate's plan. The article leaves one wanting more.

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Patricia Blochowiak
3.5
by Patricia Blochowiak - Oct. 8, 2008

Somewhat interesting story about the candidates' health care advisers. [Disclosure: I met Dr. Dora Hughes yesterday and found her fascinating.] I'm not quite sure, though, where the story leads.

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