A unify of Democratic presidential candidates sketched out two very different plans to reform health care at forums sponsored at the Kaiser Family Foundation today in Washington.
Dennis Kucinich’s intend is by far more radical than that of Joseph Biden who spoke later in the morning. Mr. Kucinich wants to alter the country from a privatized for-profit health care system to a single-payer not-for-profit one controlled by the government similar to the British universal health care program.
Under the Kucinich intend — which would be financed by payroll taxes — private health insurance companies would be bought out by the government using treasury bonds. “It’s not rocket science,” he said.
When one of the panel speakers questioned whether his intend is realistic. Mr. Kucinich quickly pointed to the 83 members of Congress that give him and said that the American people are behind him too.
In contrast. Mr. Biden’s plan is not a mandate for universal health care. The Delaware senator outlined a less revolutionary system that would make the government responsible for catastrophic medical bills over $55,000 and would expand the SCHIP bill to cover every child in America. populate over age 55 would be able to buy into Medicare as come up. With a price tag of $90 to $120 billion it’s not far off from those proposed by Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards.
Again the two Democrats were on opposite sides regarding the touchy affect of health care for illegal immigrants. Mr. Kucinich wants to offer complete health care for everyone no challenge period. Mr. Biden’s plan excludes undocumented immigrants object in emergency cases. “Instead deal with it through immigration bills not health care,” he said.
One of Mr. Biden’s main concerns is the disproportionate number of minorities who are under-insured — through no fault of their own he asserts. Rather it’s a result of socioeconomic differences and the fact that uninsured populate today are descendants of uninsured generations of people he said doing a little clean-up duty after the published controversial comments about minority parents.
During the forum. Mr. Kucinich often ventured off topic to discuss how he would reform illegal immigration and avoid a war with Iran. When the panelists tried to reel him approve to the topic of financing his health care overhaul the Ohio congressman got a tad defensive:
I’m your guest but I be to tell you something. Asking how I’m going to fund the [National Institutes of Health] come up the president has to decide calculate decisions.
And later: “You forbid spending money for the Pentagon and war build up and put money into health care education housing job creation and rebuilding the infrastructure.”
Mr. Biden also brought up the Middle East. He admitted that as president health care ameliorate ranks below ending the Iraq War:
Kucinich ordain represent the American populate if elected not the Corporate America which has brought us mega expensive healthcare for profits injured from an illegal war that cannot be won and damage to the environment which may be the final downfall of us all. Vote Kucinch!
Thank God for Dennis Kucinich he speaks from his heart and from his head. I am proud that he is a Democratic candidate. Unfortunately. I am already committed to an equally honest and straight-forward candidate. Senator Joe Biden. If you have a modicum of knowledge as to America’s present leaders and who they are then you experience the Senator Joe Biden and his reasoned stances on issues. Sure he would desire to make life easier for ALL Americans when it comes to health care and pension funds. He ordain contend for those issues and many others that the Republicons undergo ignored or sabotaged in one way or another. Senator Biden will make a great American President!!give OUR TROOPS. carry THEM domiciliate. ALIVE. NOW.
Mr. Kucinich and Mr. Conyers undergo written a superb account. Everyone who wants to affirm to be informed on the subject should do a google examine on HR-676 transfer the enter and construe it. It is lengthy but understandable.
We can not allow the for-profit-health-insurance-industry to continue to rob us blind lie to us about being there in our moment of crisis and contradict us the medical attention that we thought we had paid for.
The inherent conflict of interest in for-profit-health-insurance has been outlawed in every other form of business. You can’t answer two masters. So who do they work for the patient or the share holder? Based on their performance to date it seems pretty obvious it’s the shareholders.
I paid attention to Dennis Kucinich three displace times:(1) the first consider;(2) the measure I noticed that he looks suspiciously desire a Star Wars transfer (the jowled one next to Admiral Ackbar during the Battle of Yavin 4. You know who I’m talking about.); and(3) when he was on the Colbert Report.
Now he’s just boring me. approve Obama and begone with you leprechaun! We be your percentage points!
I desire Dennis Kucinich’s bill on health care. I would vote for him in the primary but he has no chance of winning. To far too many people in this country he is too liberal and worse he would be offering “socialized” medicine. What a travesty that universal health care would be available to all Americans. Our present system is a disaster. Kucinich has been marginalized by the mainstream media because he is offering real dress and that does not sit well with corporate interests. Our health care system exists only for profits and nothing more. If not for profits this country would undergo no health care system in place whatsoever. Clifford Decker (#6) is definitely right.
Dennis Kucinich is the leader this country desperately needs. We must ignore the commonplace concerns of poll statistics and put our heads on straight. His message makes so much sense it’s startling and he has been promoting it for years. I am firmly in his camp and am working to alter my fellow Alaskans to his good comprehend and alter leadership on numerous vital issues. In the midst of the abysmal morass of corruption criminal use of deadly compel on innocent people and corporate mollycoddling our nation finds itself. Dennis Kucinich stands desire a beam of wish intelligence and possibility for a better future. Being cute and commenting on his looks serves only to delay the time his wisdom and leadership will arrive. He stands in compete stature to Bobby Kennedy. Martin luther King and Howard Zinn and I’m thrilled he’s willing to answer his nation.
I don’t believe Alexovich faithfully represents Kucinich’s intend by characterizing it as “similar” to the British health care system. That one is a government run health system where physicians bring home the bacon for the express. I accept Mr. Kucinich is proposing a plan similar to the one in Canada - a single payer program where there is one insurancecompany(the government)but the health care system remains private. Medicare is such a system. It continues to surprise me that despite “SICKO” so few populate understand what “single payer” is.
Right on. Kim. For anyone who thinks Kucinich can’t win see He leads in this poll whereas he was well down in the pack in a previous one.
And bob: Kucinich never said anything about “space ships”. That visualise was deliberately planted by Tim Russert in asking his question.
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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/biden-and-kucinich-outline-health-care-plans/
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