Two newspapers recently published opinion pieces that address the health care proposals of the two major presidential candidates. Summaries appear below. Malinda Markowitz, Miami Herald: The health care proposal of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) "won't come close to solving" the U.S. health care "crisis," Markowitz, president of the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association, writes in a Herald opinion piece. McCain has proposed to replace a tax break for employees who receive health insurance from employers with a refundable tax credit of as much as $2,500 for individuals and $5,000 for families to purchase private coverage, but the amount of those credits represents "less than half of the cost of average premiums now, not counting all the copays, deductibles and...
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