Healthcare and Kucinich
The following is an email sent out by the Kucinich campaign on August 13, 2003. You can sign up to be on the campaign email list at the official website.
KUCINICH & DOCTORS AGREE ON UNIVERSAL COVERAGE
From Associated Press today: "Washington -- Nearly 8,000 U.S. physicians are calling for government-financed national health insurance, which they say would cover every American while saving billions of dollars.
"Ten years after President Clinton's national health plan died in Congress, tangled in complexity and under fierce assault from the medical, insurance and pharmaceutical industries, the doctors argue that
private sector solutions have failed. The doctors would put in place a single-payer system -- essentially an upgraded and expanded version of
Medicare...
"Of the Democratic presidential candidates, only Rep. Dennis Kucinich is advocating a single-payer system."
Our campaign is giving voice not only to the aspirations of millions of Americans in need of health coverage, but many thousands of physicians and healthcare practitioners who know they can't adequately serve the public until national health insurance is implemented. http://www.kucinich.us/issues/issue_universalhealth.htm
KUCINICH vs. GEPHARDT, KERRY & DEAN -- Which Way for Democrats?
Campaign supporters have asked us for more analysis on Kucinich in comparison with other Democrats, and on our campaign's impact on the
party. To see this piece: http://www.kucinich.us/whichway.htm
DENNIS AS SEABISCUIT
Steve Cobble, Kucinich adviser and veteran campaign strategist, offers the following analysis:
Columnist Mark Shields made a crucial point in a recent essay when he wrote that "Democrats nominate dark horses, not front-runners...Only
twice in the last 44 years has the Democratic nominee for President emerged in the year before the election as the clear front-runner in
the Gallup Poll." For example: McGovern ended 1971 at 5%; Carter did not register in any of the four 1975 polls. Clinton was polling at only 6%
as late as October of 1991.
This history is important to our campaign because it proves that national polling at this stage is irrelevant. Here is what's relevant:
Are we raising sufficient money and building field organizations in early states? Do we have a base in the party and issues on which we
stand out to primary voters? Are we beginning to move up the ladder in early states?
The Kucinich Campaign can answer yes on all counts. We ended the second quarter with a million dollars in the bank, thanks to our strong MoveOn primary vote -- and we've added field staff in many states. In two weeks, our MeetUp membership went from 1,200 to 8,000 and we'll soon move past John Kerry into second place. Dennis is drawing the largest crowds around the country due to unique positions on universal health insurance, corporate globalization, the Iraq war, Pentagon cuts, "Patriot Act," etc. We've moved up in Iowa -- with Willie Nelson's
concerts to begin.
Kucinich is the dark horse candidate of 2003. We've exceeded expectations on every front from the beginning. Like Seabiscuit, we don't have to lead from pole to pole -- just be in front at the end.
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