Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Obama & McCain On The Issues: Education, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Energy, Science and Technology








Health Care
The candidates’ health positions reflect the wide gulf between Senator John McCain’s devotion to free markets and Senator Barack Obama’s embrace of a larger government role. But the campaign also has revealed common ground on priorities like reducing health spending by reconfiguring the Medicare payment.
Both candidates would have to achieve significant reductions in the growth of health spending to fill budget gaps left by their proposals. Whether they can, either econometrically or politically, is speculative at best, particularly in a battered economy. http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/issues/health.html


Energy
While the two candidates agree that the nation must wean itself from a $700-billion-a-year addiction to imported oil, they disagree on how to do it. Both hew fairly closely to party orthodoxy: Senator John McCain backs using the tax code to encourage oil drilling, while Senator Barack Obama would use the proceeds from a windfall profits tax on oil companies to finance alternatives and help the poor.

Although both acknowledge a need to encourage energy conservation and development of renewables, only Mr. Obama would use government mandates and tax incentives to achieve it; Mr. McCain calls such subsidies boondoggles.
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