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ELECTION 2008 Previous Volume 359:1648-1650 October 16, 2008 Number 16 Next

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A central premise of Senator Barack Obama's campaign for the presidency is that America is ready — this time — for sweeping health care reform. He has laid out a vision for reform that promises health insurance for (nearly) everyone, with coverage as good as that enjoyed by members of Congress. According to the campaign, the Obama plan would shift most of the 46 million uninsured Americans into health plans, strengthen employer-sponsored insurance, increase the efficiency of the health care delivery system, and save the average family $2,500 a year on their insurance premiums. These hopes are too audacious to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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This article (10.1056/NEJMp0806561) was published at www.nejm.org on September 24, 2008.

Dr. Antos is a scholar in health care and retirement policy at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, a commissioner of the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, Baltimore, and an adjunct professor at the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill.

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