Obama’s prescription for American health care came under immediate, if indirect, criticism from two of his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, including a leader of the last major attempt to revamp the system, Senator Clinton. Individuals and families would be eligible, regardless of pre-existing conditions, to buy policies currently offered to federal employees. He would require most employers to offer subsidized insurance or pay a percentage of their payroll to the government. Obama’s proposal consists mostly of incremental changes in the current system under which most Americans get health insurance through their employer. “The climate is far different than it was the last time we tried this in the early ’90s.” Obama told a crowd at the University of Iowa’s medical school in Iowa City, according to the Associated Press. Senator Obama of Illinois rolled out a health care plan yesterday that he said would drive down spiraling insurance costs and offer coverage to the 47 million Americans who lack it.
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