Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report
Over 70% of likely voters in the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania have doubts about its ability to provide health care, according to a survey by Quinnipiac University released last week, the Wall Street Journal reported.
According to the poll, voters rank health care as a matter of the third largest in the choice of the economy and the war in Iraq. Among voters, cited health care as their main issue in the election, 56% said they support Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY), and 38% said they prefer Senator Barack Obama (Ill. .).
According to the magazine, Clinton is “the adoption of a plan of battle that looks like James Carville and Paul Begala to increase Unterlegene Harris Wofford Democrats in the Senate in the years 1991, and a year later, to push Bill Clinton to the presidency “The centre of gravity for health care and the economy. Wofford” knocked the world of politics, when he beat former Gov. Dick Thornburg, experienced a moderate Republican, which was withdrawn in the United States, as US Attorney General for the seat, “reports the magazine. The newspaper also noted that Obama heard a speech on the economy Thursday, followed by a six-day bus tour in Pennsylvania (Timiraos, Wall Street Journal, 3 / 27).
Organ transplant
Tuesday in an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial, Clinton discussed, as his proposal to invite all American citizens to obtain health insurance, access to organ transplants.
According to a recent study Tribune-Review, hundreds of people every year, liver transplants, when they do not need 10 patients and in death, when she would have lived longer without the transplant. Bill Clinton said: “The question of transplantation is a very sensitive issue because it is not only human beings that maybe, if patients are not critical, but also in a hospital research, ‘Do we want a Registry to give the insured person and eat all the costs, or give us a transplant of a person insured to the tune? ”
In addition, Clinton said: “Of course, now, doctors, insurance, transplantation, and that she could not.” She added: “It was, I think, an alarm clock for many doctors. They do not want, and rightly so, that the government tell them, and I do not want the government to say, but they have a another bureaucracy, namely the insurance companies, she said. ”
According to Claude Earl Fox, director of the Public Health Institute in Florida and former administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, an expansion of health insurance for all residents could increase access to organ transplants could increase, but the demand for organs, without an increase in the offer. He said: “The biggest advantage, I could see universal coverage would it perhaps that access to transplants more egalitarian, less dependent on the state of the economy, and more dependent on the state of health “