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All four plans include more spending and potentially reduced access by patients to treatment.  Commentators are predicting quick action by the Democratic Congress and Presidency in 2009 on this.<ref>http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20081203/OPINION/812030387/1049/OPINION</ref>
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Health care constitutes one-seventh of the economy, and there are 47 million uninsured residents of America.  But many of those are uninsured by choice, or uninsured temporarily.  The real [[liberal]] motivation to change health care, which was the first priority of [[Hillary Clinton]] when her president took office back in 1993, is to effect social change.  [[Abortion]] and the [[homosexual agenda]] can be advanced under the banner of health care reform in a way that would never pass otherwise.
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None of the plans are expected to be "single payer," at least not initially and publicly so.  "Top Democrats who will be deciding policy in America in 2009, including Baucus and President-elect Barack Obama, say single-payer is 'not politically feasible,' because the public won't strongly support it."<ref>http://www.helenair.com/articles/2008/12/03/state/80st_081203_column.txt</ref>
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Each of the Democratic plans is summarized below.
    
== Ted Kennedy's Plan ==
 
== Ted Kennedy's Plan ==
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== Tom Daschle's Plan ==
 
== Tom Daschle's Plan ==
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Tom Daschle, the former Senate Majority Leader who later became a health care lobbyist,<ref>http://www.bhpioneer.com/articles/2008/12/02/opinion/doc49356b800d2d4411203208.txt</ref> as did his wife, set forth his plan in a book entitled ...
    
== Max Baucus's Plan ==
 
== Max Baucus's Plan ==
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Barack Obama did not support universal coverage during the campaign, to contrast his approach with that of [[Hillary Clinton]].  It is doubtful that this issue is a priority for him in 2009.
 
Barack Obama did not support universal coverage during the campaign, to contrast his approach with that of [[Hillary Clinton]].  It is doubtful that this issue is a priority for him in 2009.
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