Kerry campaigning on Health Care Plan

[Adelante]

Kerry to Tout Health-Care Plan in Challenge to Bush

May 10 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential challenger Senator John Kerry will focus on U.S. economic competitiveness and how rising health-care costs affect families as he campaigns against President George W. Bush in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Florida and Arkansas.

``It's not acceptable to do nothing while these premiums are rising four times faster than workers' earnings,'' Kerry said in remarks prepared for delivery at Edinboro University in Erie, Pennsylvania, today. ``We need a president who knows our health- care crisis isn't acceptable and who has a plan to fix it.''

Kerry, 60, is focusing on health care as part of a strategy to tap into the economic anxieties of U.S. workers. By discussing health care this week, education last week and unemployment the week before, Kerry is trying to establish a dialogue with voters about economic concerns that touch their lives directly.

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Kerry will close his four-day health-care swing by focusing on how rising costs are squeezing veterans with a roundtable discussion in Little Rock, Arkansas. The Massachusetts senator will be joined at the event by two of his crewmates who are Arkansas natives and former General Wesley Clark who ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Source: Bloomberg 5/10/04

[boobooday]

1. The health care issue works for me

And I know it is important to a huge majority of people. I hope he makes it a major part of his campaign.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Adelante]

2. I think you're right

This is literally killing people as much as anything.

[cornfedyank]

3. a total package campaign is a good idea.

right now the war is the hot issue.
what if this united iraqi scholars group, http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2004-05/08/article08.shtml gets u.n. support and asks us to leave??

shrub et al will say it was the plan all along. the other long term issues: health care, the debt, the environment, sustainable energy policy may not get the attention they warrant.

[eridani]

4. Now all he needs is the balls to advocate single payer

Universal means EVERYONE--it does not mean 90% or 95%, especially when those left out are precisely those most likely to be sick. The Pew Foundation sez that 82% of Democrats and 51% of Republicans prefer universal health care to the Bush tax cuts. If we can't organize that kind of popular base for real policy change, what in bleeding hell is the matter with us?!?!?