Historic Day on Healthcare
The following is an email sent out by the Kucinich campaign on August 12, 2003. You can sign up to be on the campaign email list at the official website.
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DOCTORS SUPPORT NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE
Today, a new proposal was unveiled for single-payer National Health Insurance, with the endorsement of thousands of physicians, including former Surgeon Generals and hundreds of medical school deans and professors. It is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Dennis Kucinich, who has made National Health Insurance a centerpiece of his campaign, issued this statement:
"This is a historic day with thousands of doctors backing healthcare reform that addresses the key obstacle to universal coverage: private health insurance. Doctors have seen this obstacle up close. Private insurers add little to healthcare except waste, paperwork, marketing and advertising costs, profits, high executive salaries and sales commissions. Insurance firms don't heal or treat the sick, but they soak up huge amounts of resources that should go to treatment. Our country is already paying for national healthcare; we're just not
getting it.
"Other Democratic presidential candidates propose tinkering with a flawed, bureaucratic system dominated by private insurance. But incremental changes haven't gotten our country anywhere close to universal coverage. As thousands of physicians are telling us, National Health Insurance is the cost-effective solution."
DENNIS VS. DEAN
"My plan is not reform," Howard Dean told the New York Times (July 30). "If you want to totally change the healthcare system, I'm not your guy." Dean supports incremental change that leaves the private insurance bureaucracy in the center of health care, and doesn't provide universal coverage.
Kucinich's plan of streamlined national health insurance for all is a proven success in industrial democracies far less wealthy than our country. For more on the Kucinich plan: http://www.kucinich.us/issues/issue_universalhealth.htm
DENNIS & HEALTHCARE ON C-SPAN
On Thursday, Dennis and other candidates will offer their differing views on healthcare at a televised Iowa forum. Dennis will speak at approximately 3:30pm central/4:30pm eastern.
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