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OBAMA OFFERS FAKE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE PLAN
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday offered a
sweeping health care plan that would provide every citizen a means for
coverage and calls on government, businesses and consumers to share the
costs of the program. Obama said his plan could save the average
consumer $2,500 a year and bring health care to all. Campaign aides
estimated the cost of the program at $50 billion to $65 billion a year,
financed largely by eliminating tax cuts for the wealthy that are
scheduled to expire. President Bush wants to make those cuts permanent.
. .
Obama's plan retains the private insurance system but injects additional
money to pay for expanding coverage. It would also create a National
Health Insurance Exchange to monitor insurance companies in offering the
coverage. Those who can't afford coverage would get a subsidy on a
sliding scale depending on their income, and virtually all businesses
would have to share in the cost of coverage for their workers. The plan
is similar to the one covering members of Congress.
The plan doesn't have the mandate that rival Democratic candidate John
Edwards is proposing to ensure that all Americans get coverage. The 2004
Democratic vice presidential nominee would require everyone to have
health insurance, much like state requirements for auto insurance for
every driver. Both candidates would require businesses to help cover
their workers.
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who oversaw a massive but
unsuccessful project to overhaul the nation's health care system while
she was first lady, has promised universal health care but has yet to
provide specifics.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070529/ap_on_el_pr/obama_health
PROGRESSIVE REVIEW - Obama thus joins Edwards in offering a health plan
that leaves the insurance companies ripping off the country and avoids
the obvious solution of a single pay program. Meanwhile, the New Jersey
Industrial Union Council has endorsed HR 676, a single payer health care
health care bill introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). The
council represents 300,000 union members and retirees and follows the
endorsement of the bill by 274 union organizations in 43 states
including 75 Central Labor Councils and Area Labor Federations and 18
state AFL-CIOs.
As Kal Swift of the Green Party has put it, "Hillary Clinton, Barack
Obama, John Edwards, and other prominent Democrats are the greatest
obstacle to universal health coverage. Except for a few mavericks like
Rep. John Conyers [D-Mich.], who has regularly introduced single-payer
bills, Democrats have joined Republicans in favoring HMO and insurance
corporations over guaranteed publicly-financed quality health care for
every American. It's a safe bet that the 2008 Democratic nominee will --
like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and John Kerry before them -- follow the
same pattern."
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PRESIDENTIAL AMBITION DROVE KERRY'S VOTE FOR WAR
GREG PIERCE, WASHINGTON TIMES - Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat,
voted for the Iraq war resolution in 2002 after weighing the political
ramifications and being told by his future campaign manager that he
would never be elected president in 2004 unless he sided with President
Bush on the issue, according to a forthcoming book by Mr. Kerry's former
strategist. . . [Robert Shrum] writes that Mr. Kerry telephoned him on
the eve of the Oct. 11, 2002, vote. Mr. Shrum said that Mr. Kerry was
skeptical of Mr. Bush's claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction
and that he "didn't trust Bush to give the diplomatic route a real
chance." Nonetheless, Mr. Kerry asked Mr. Shrum whether he would "be a
viable general election candidate if he was in the small minority of
senators who voted no." Mr. Shrum wrote that he told Mr. Kerry that it
was "impossible to predict the political fallout if we went to war." But
he wrote that Jim Jordan, Mr. Kerry's former Senate press secretary and
future campaign manager, "was insisting that he had to vote with Bush."
Mr. Shrum wrote that Mr. Jordan had "hammered" Mr. Kerry with a warning:
"Go ahead and vote against it if you want, but you'll never be president
of the United States." Mr. Kerry voted for the war resolution, and Mr.
Jordan became Mr. Kerry's campaign manager three months later.
http://www.washtimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20070529-120428-8000r
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OBAMA OFFERS FAKE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE PLAN
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday offered a
sweeping health care plan that would provide every citizen a means for
coverage and calls on government, businesses and consumers to share the
costs of the program. Obama said his plan could save the average
consumer $2,500 a year and bring health care to all. Campaign aides
estimated the cost of the program at $50 billion to $65 billion a year,
financed largely by eliminating tax cuts for the wealthy that are
scheduled to expire. President Bush wants to make those cuts permanent.
. .
Obama's plan retains the private insurance system but injects additional
money to pay for expanding coverage. It would also create a National
Health Insurance Exchange to monitor insurance companies in offering the
coverage. Those who can't afford coverage would get a subsidy on a
sliding scale depending on their income, and virtually all businesses
would have to share in the cost of coverage for their workers. The plan
is similar to the one covering members of Congress.
The plan doesn't have the mandate that rival Democratic candidate John
Edwards is proposing to ensure that all Americans get coverage. The 2004
Democratic vice presidential nominee would require everyone to have
health insurance, much like state requirements for auto insurance for
every driver. Both candidates would require businesses to help cover
their workers.
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who oversaw a massive but
unsuccessful project to overhaul the nation's health care system while
she was first lady, has promised universal health care but has yet to
provide specifics.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070529/ap_on_el_pr/obama_health
PROGRESSIVE REVIEW - Obama thus joins Edwards in offering a health plan
that leaves the insurance companies ripping off the country and avoids
the obvious solution of a single pay program. Meanwhile, the New Jersey
Industrial Union Council has endorsed HR 676, a single payer health care
health care bill introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). The
council represents 300,000 union members and retirees and follows the
endorsement of the bill by 274 union organizations in 43 states
including 75 Central Labor Councils and Area Labor Federations and 18
state AFL-CIOs.
As Kal Swift of the Green Party has put it, "Hillary Clinton, Barack
Obama, John Edwards, and other prominent Democrats are the greatest
obstacle to universal health coverage. Except for a few mavericks like
Rep. John Conyers [D-Mich.], who has regularly introduced single-payer
bills, Democrats have joined Republicans in favoring HMO and insurance
corporations over guaranteed publicly-financed quality health care for
every American. It's a safe bet that the 2008 Democratic nominee will --
like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and John Kerry before them -- follow the
same pattern."
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PRESIDENTIAL AMBITION DROVE KERRY'S VOTE FOR WAR
GREG PIERCE, WASHINGTON TIMES - Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat,
voted for the Iraq war resolution in 2002 after weighing the political
ramifications and being told by his future campaign manager that he
would never be elected president in 2004 unless he sided with President
Bush on the issue, according to a forthcoming book by Mr. Kerry's former
strategist. . . [Robert Shrum] writes that Mr. Kerry telephoned him on
the eve of the Oct. 11, 2002, vote. Mr. Shrum said that Mr. Kerry was
skeptical of Mr. Bush's claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction
and that he "didn't trust Bush to give the diplomatic route a real
chance." Nonetheless, Mr. Kerry asked Mr. Shrum whether he would "be a
viable general election candidate if he was in the small minority of
senators who voted no." Mr. Shrum wrote that he told Mr. Kerry that it
was "impossible to predict the political fallout if we went to war." But
he wrote that Jim Jordan, Mr. Kerry's former Senate press secretary and
future campaign manager, "was insisting that he had to vote with Bush."
Mr. Shrum wrote that Mr. Jordan had "hammered" Mr. Kerry with a warning:
"Go ahead and vote against it if you want, but you'll never be president
of the United States." Mr. Kerry voted for the war resolution, and Mr.
Jordan became Mr. Kerry's campaign manager three months later.
http://www.washtimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20070529-120428-8000r
MORE POLITICAL NEWS
http://prorev.com/politics.htm
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