Uni***sal H**lth C*re

(Also known as the eighth dirty word.)

So I was reading this article, about different governor's approaches to solving the health care crisis. There's two main approaches: trying to get more people covered, and reducing costs. The first one, championed by the Democratic governors, mostly focused on getting coverage for their state's children. Gov. Blagojevich, for example, is guarunteeing every child in Illinois health insurance. The GOP governors tended toward plans resembling Pres. Bush's "savings account" plan, which would reduce costs to the state (but increase costs to us).
The justification? "Advocates say these changes will restrain healthcare costs by increasing competition and making Medicaid recipients more sensitive to the services they use."
You know those Medicaid recipients. Always going to the doctor when they don't have to.