Summary
• Universal health care is a moral imperative
• Insurance and drug company malfeasance must be punished
• Health care for children must be mandatory
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Summary
• Health Care fundamentally an individual responsibility
• Medicare costs are growing astronomically
• Democrats are relying on the old saw that government can solve everything
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"I'll be a president who finally makes health care affordable to every single American by bringing Democrats and Republicans together.[1]
I believe absolutely passionately that we must have universal health care. It is a moral responsibility [to] move us to universal health care ... [2]
On Medicare and Medicaid, the reimbursement system is not working the way it should. Instituting a universal health-care system that emphasizes prevention will free up dollars that potentially then can go to reimbursing doctors a little bit more. [3]
My emphasis is on driving down the costs, taking on the insurance companies, making sure that they are limited in the ability to extract profits and deny coverage, and the drug companies have to do what's right by their patients instead of simply hoarding their profits. We've got very conservative, credible estimates that say we can save families that do have health insurance about a thousand dollars a year, and we provide coverage for everybody else. We provide mandatory health care for children. [4]
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"For all the grandiose promises made in this campaign, has any candidate spoken honestly to the American people about the government's role and failings about individual responsibilities? Has any candidate told the truth about the future of Medicare? Its costs are growing astronomically faster than its financing, and leaving its structural flaws un-addressed will hasten its bankruptcy. Has any candidate warned that we have a personal responsibility to take better care of ourselves and our children? Yet that is the only way to prevent many chronic diseases. Has any candidate insisted that genuine and effective health care reform requires accountability from everyone: drug companies, insurance companies, doctors, hospitals, the government and patients? Yet that is the truth upon which any so-called solution must be based.
“Democratic presidential candidates are not telling you these truths. They offer their usual default position: If the government would only pay for insurance everything would be fine. They promise universal coverage, whatever its cost, and the massive tax increases, mandates and government regulation that it imposes. I offer a genuinely conservative vision for health care reform, which preserves the most essential value of American lives — freedom.” |
[1]
January 17, 2008
Nevada TV Ad
"President"
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[2]
January 31, 2008
Los Angeles, CA
Democratic Debate at Kodak Theater
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[3]
October 30, 2007
Philadelphia, PA
Democratic Debate at Drexel University
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[4]
June 3, 2007
Manchester, NH
Democratic Debate at St. Anselm College
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October 11, 2007
Des Moines, IA
Remarks on Health Care
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