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- Joe Biden
- Proposed a four step plan: reducing the cost of health care, covering all children, lowering insurance cost for employers, and reforming the insurance industry.
- Hillary Clinton
- Proposed the American Health Choices Plan, which involves giving people the choice to keep their current coverage while offering different options to those without coverage or wanting to switch coverage.
- Chris Dodd
- Proposed a plan that would create an insurance marketplace called Universal HealthMart. Coverage for children will be guaranteed and insurance will be portable.
- John Edwards
- Proposed a plan for universal health care, funded by making it more affordable, creating regional markets to increase choices, and requiring employers to cover their employees or help cover them.
- Mike Gravel
- Proposed a plan for universal health care paid for by retail sales tax, not by citizens. Vouchers would be given to citizens to pay for one of the six offered plans.
- Mike Huckabee
- Against a universal health care system.
- Supports more healthcare options and competitive pricing plans.
- Dennis Kucinich
- Proposed a plan to make health care universal, single-payer, and not-for-profit.
- Barack Obama
- Proposed a plan that would provide affordable coverage for every citizen to buy and a National Health Insurance Exchange for people who want private insurance. The plan would also require all children to have coverage.
- Bill Richardson
- Proposed a plan that will require every American to have health insurance and that will provide affordable care that everyone can purchase.
- Mitt Romney
- In favor of universal health care, but by market reform instead of federalized socialization.
- Fred Thompson
- Wants to provide more options for affordable health care for each individual.
- In favor of personal responsibility.
