…Or maybe it should be healthcare bites.  Anyway, there is an article in USA Today today (3/26/08) outlining some of the issues in healthcare as well the general positions on healthcare of the 3 presidential candidates left standing.

The sound bites are as follows:

Healthcare in the US is a mess, and that is one thing all three candidates can agree upon.

• Lots of statistics that will scare the crap out of pretty much anyone.
• Greater Insurance coverage is needed.
• The last big attempt to restructure health care in the US was Hillary's push for universal coverage in 1993-94. If you missed it, it was too complex to deal with so Congress killed it.
• All candidates agree that some of the costs of healthcare can be addressed through technological efficiencies and through a more streamlined approach to chronic care, but none of them seem willing to address the issue of cost head on.

I thought it was interesting that the article did not mention any of the health care policies put in place over the past few years under the current administration including the implementation of HSAs and everyone's favorite… Medicare part D.

And if you missed the 16 blogs that went through Ms. Clinton's healthcare plan, you are in luck, because the article also provided sound bites on each candidate's plans as well and we are going to break them down one more level here into sound nibbles.  Here goes: