All the Democratic presidential candidates have made detail-laden speeches explaining how they would provide health coverage for uninsured Americans and revamp the Bush administration’s tax policies. Still, the proposals from the Democratic candidates represent an abandonment of the incremental steps in political favor since the Clinton plan was quashed in 1994 and promise to dramatically reduce the number of uninsured. With the exception of long-shot candidate Kucinich, all the plans build upon the existing public and private health insurance system.