Released: October 28, 2008

Election: Your health insurance at stake

Source: Tami Luhby, CNNMoney.com

Both presidential candidates want to turn employer-sponsored health insurance on its head. A principal goal: to make sure more Americans get coverage.

But in helping the 45 million uninsured, both Republican nominee John McCain and his Democratic rival Barack Obama could prompt radical changes in on-the-job insurance, which currently covers 164 million people.

“Both McCain’s and Obama’s plans would move coverage in ways that changes the nature of the employer-sponsored system,” said James Klein, head of the American Benefits Council, which represents larger employers. McCain and Obama take very different paths to what they say is the same endpoint - reforming health care

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