Reply #89: Lagniappe on Health Care

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Kucinich’s health care plan would be run by the states and federal government by eliminating insurance companies from administering health care.

Private insurance companies would be eliminated from the health care system completely

Clinton’s plan still left big insurance firms in the health care system, unlike Kucinich’s plan.

Health care is currently dominated by insurance firms and HMOS,
Thousands of physicians support a single-payer system .

Over the years, groups and individuals as diverse as Consumers Union, labor unions, the CEO of General Motors, the editorial boards of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and St. Louis Post Dispatch, and Physicians for a National Health Program have endorsed a single-payer approach.

The government would save money by making bulk purchases of prescription drugs, Kucinich said, something that Canada has done for years. American pharmaceutical companies have fiercely opposed such an approach, however, arguing that in driving down costs the government would siphon away funds needed for innovative research.