Here's this week's news from the CWA Health Care Campaign:

McCain would cut Medicare to pay for health tax credits
John McCain would make “major reductions to Medicare and Medicaid” to save enough money to finance tax credits for people who buy health insurance, the Wall Street Journal reported – meaning up to $1.3 trillion in cuts to the health programs.

Analysis finds Obama plan has “greater potential”
Barack Obama’s health plan has “greater potential to move the health care system toward high performance” than John McCain’s proposals, according to a new analysis by the non-partisan Commonwealth Fund, a foundation that studies health issues.

The faces of the uninsured
We often talk about the uninsured in big numbers – 46 million in the country lacking health coverage, up nearly 10 million in the past eight years. The huge numbers can make us numb to the individual suffering. Two recent works of reporting look at the uninsured one excruciating case at a time.