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Obama's healthcare plan sounds better. It is a sensible solution that can work. I have a hard enough time going through 5 different plans that range from full coverage, a HRA (Health Reimbursement Account...HSA setup in favor of the employer), to going out on my own and getting a HSA on my own. I've done them all, and it's a good thing I've never been really sick. But, I could imagine the nightmare if I had to go out and pick from 50 different plans setup by shady fly-by-night companies and the big health insurers that offer a low premium, but skimp on the benefits when you need them. Obama was right to say that there would be states that would lower requirements in order to have all of the major health insureres move there. The healthcare companies would work together to push through laws and get tax incentives for all the new jobs and whatever it would bring to their state. Kind of like Delaware and North Dakota for banking right now. I do think that small businesses (and big businesses...Wal-Mart) should be fined if they don't provide health insurance benefits. It is unfair competition. If the employee opts out, then it's another story. But having a business model that undercuts your competition by not paying the health insurance for your employees is wrong.
I liked the format and I thought the questions were good. I liked the one about what should Americans sacrifice and setting a deadline for social security reform. But, I have heard a lot of this other stuff that they have said before. And the time wasn't as big of a deal that Brokaw made it. Let them talk for as long as necessary to get their ideas out, just make sure that they get equal time.
And McCain was right to not attack Obama's character with the people in his past. McCain did pretty well on a few of his responses to energy independence, battery electric cars, and working on all of the tasks a the same time.
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