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Role of Healthcare in Presidential Primaries

By: Amanda Salem
Updated: February 20, 2008
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Healthcare has become a big platform issue for all candidates in this year’s presidential race.         


Experts say Texas leads the nation in the number of uninsured.  New Mexico is second.  Officials at University Medical Center say since we are the health hub for Texas and New Mexico that poses a big problem locally.


Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barak Obama are pushing for national healthcare in some form. Others, like Mike Huckabee and Senator John McCain, oppose federally mandated universal coverage; however, they are looking for other solutions to make healthcare more affordable.  Hospital officials say they hope our government will work together on the issue because treating those without insurance affects everyone.


"They're coming into the hospitals, into the emergency rooms, with an acute problem that could've been avoided.  The hospitals treat them because it is a life-threatening illness when they come in.  And they run up substantial debt that they either, more likely, don't pay, or the hospitals have to absorb that.  In our case, it would be the Lubbock County taxpayers that absorb that responsibility and it just continues to tax the system,” says Greg Bruce of University Medical Center.


Experts say there are about 47 million Americans without health insurance.

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