Barack Obama isn't promising health care with universal coverage, just a close approximation of it, but it's not for any lack of taxes and regulations in his plan.(The Week)(Brief article)

Barack Obama isn't promising health care with universal coverage, just a close approximation of it, but it's not for any lack of taxes and regulations in his plan. Along with a lot of Democrats, he claims that he can pay for part of the plan by making drug companies sell medicine to Medicare on the cheap. The Congressional Budget Office finds, however, that no savings will materialize unless senior citizens' choice of medicines is restricted, which is something Obama is unwilling to advocate publicly. His plan builds on employer-provided health care. Companies that don't offer insurance ...