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With about two dozen reporters crammed in a press room, Presidential=20 candidate Hillary = Clinton=20 outlined her universal health care plan, which "would provide tax = credits to=20 make insurance more affordable" and "require businesses to offer = insurance to=20 workers or pay into a pool for people without it." Florida's health = insurance=20 advisor Morgan Moran added 'her opponent, Barack Obama thinks her plan is just talk'. =
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"Clinton's plan is the most sweeping universal plan offered by any of = the=20 2008 candidates." According to Moran, her campaign is pulling out all = the stops=20 on the health insurance issue.
Clinton points to her web site where her position on healthcare is = clearly=20 stated. On her website Clinton= .=20 From her time in Arkansas when=20 she improved rural health care to her successful effort to create the = SCHIP=20 Children's Health = Insurance=20 program which now covers six million children, Hillary has the strength = and=20 experience to ensure that every man, woman and child in America has = quality,=20 affordable health care.
"Clinton has been criticizing Obama's health care plan for falling = short of=20 universal health coverage" said Moran, because unlike her plan, "Obama's = (plan)=20 would not require every American to buy insurance". Obama claims "his = plan would=20 lower the cost of insurance and guarantee access", removing the = obstacles most=20 often faced by people without insurance.
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"Sen. Clinton = still hasn't=20 explained what this mandate is: What's she going to do if somebody = doesn't=20 purchase health care? Is she going to fine them? Is she going to garnish = their=20 wages?" Obama said.
"One of the problems with Clinton's health insurance approach, is = that she=20 hasn't been straight with the American people about how she's going to = 'impose=20 this mandate'. And without an enforcement mechanism, there is no = mandate. It's=20 just a political talking point," he continued.
A spokesman for the Clinton campaign, Lori Singer commented, "The fact remains = that Sen.=20 "Obama is going around saying he has a universal health care plan that = in fact=20 excludes 15 million Americans." Obama's own health care plan does = include a=20 requirement that families purchase insurance for their children.
Shortly after, Obama sent out a memo noting that in Massachusetts, the only state so far to = require=20 residents to buy health insurance, "hundreds of thousands of people have = not=20 purchased insurance despite a fine levied on those who fail to do so = through=20 their tax returns".
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