Dems split on health care, trade
By William L. Watts, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 1:01 AM ET Aug. 6, 2003
CHICAGO (CBS.MW) -- Competing prescriptions for reforming the nation's health care system highlighted divisions between the nine Democratic presidential candidates at an AFL-CIO forum Tuesday night
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Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean said his plan to rescind all of Bush's tax cuts would pay for the expansion of health insurance to uninsured Americans while also allowing the federal budget to return to balance within five years.
Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri, defended his plan calling for the rollback of all of the Bush tax cuts, which, along with a 60 percent tax credit to employers, would be used to expand health insurance to uninsured Americans.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio said neither plan was workable and that the only solution was to admit that "the private sector has failed" and that it was time to aim for a government-run, single-payer health insurance system funded by a 7.5 percent payroll tax increase on employers.
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Sen. John Kerry then accused Lieberman of thinking small. "America deserves a bigger and bolder vision than Joe just described," Kerry said, touting his own plan to target rising health-care costs and extend insurance to all Americans.
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