5 Democratic governors urge Obama health plan

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Five Democratic governors made a plea yesterday in Philadelphia for Barack Obama's health plan, saying John McCain's proposal would weaken the employer-based system that covers 158 million Americans.

They asserted that McCain would deregulate health care at a time when the financial crisis was giving deregulation a bad name. And many of us, they said, would end up spending more for insurance - if we could buy it at all. ...

... Gov. Corzine of New Jersey chimed in that a family of five would not get any more money than a family of four. And, he said, McCain makes no special provision for people who have health problems, a group that pays extra in the private market, if they can even find an insurer that will sell them a policy.

The McCain campaign rejected the contention that its plan would weaken the employer-based system.

The governors - the other three were Martin O'Malley of Maryland, Chet Culver of Iowa and Joe Manchin III of West Virginia - were in Philadelphia for a meeting. ...

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