Health Care Plans
Following up from an earlier story and posts, two Republican candidates for governor have offered up detailed health care proposals. That's in advance of tonight's tonight's health care debate on UNC-TV.
Bill Graham held a news conference in downtown Raleigh today to give his pitch, which focuses on creating community risk pools. Essentially, Graham wants to let churches, civic clubs, employers, etc... band together to form insurance pools that will make the purchase of insurance cheaper.
There's no online link yet (although the color booklet is very nice) but I'll post one when I get it. Update: Here's the link. (PDF)
Bob Orr made his pitch by way of an e-mail announcement that linked to his plan. As is typical for Orr, his thoughts are detailed and multi-faceted. The highlights that I've picked out so far include increasing the number of doctors and nurses available to treat those in need by working to train more medical professionals, emphasizing preventative care and decreasing the cost of insurance be reducing coverage mandates.
Coverage mandates are things that an insurer has to cover if they sell you a policy in North Carolina. The most recent addition to that list - mental health care.
Democrats Bev Perdue and Richard Moore have already offered their plans while Republicans Fred Smith and Pat McCrory seem to have some broad brushstrokes in place.
You can catch tonight's debate at 8 p.m. if you have UNC's digital channel, or at 10 p.m. on the regular broadcast.
