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Reviewing the details of what would become the House version of reform legislation, he asked on the House floor: "Is this the best we can do?
Forcing people to buy private health insurance, guaranteeing at least $50 billion in new business for the insurance companies?
Is this the best we can do? Government negotiates rates which will drive up insurance costs, but the government won't negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies which will drive up pharmaceutical costs...
Is this the best we can do? Eliminating the state single payer option, while forcing most people to buy private insurance.
If this is the best we can do?
Then our best isn't good enough and we have to ask some hard questions about our political system: such as Health Care or Insurance Care?
Government of the people or a government of the corporations.
Rep. Kucinich: You're building on sand. There is no structure here. You're building on a foundation of privatization of our health care system. That's the problem. The insurance companies are the problem. They're nothing to build on. We build our hopes on the insurance companies and all we'll have is more poverty in this country. And people aren't -- people aren't going to get the care they need.
Remember, insurance companies make money not providing health care. That is a fundamental truth about our health care system . . .
Dennis Kucinich was very purposely ignored by the media by the powers that be during the primaries. He's a true Statesman and there is not one issue that Kucinich has not gotten right. He has advocated for single payer from the very begining.
Regardless of the fact that I don't agree with Kucinich on a lot of things, the guy has to be the most honest liberal in DC. Wish there were more like him on the Dem side of the aisle.
I'd like to see Kucinich and Ron Paul put together a health care bill. While i don't like Ron Paul, ay least he's honest and seems to act in what he thinks are the best interests of America. Kucinich does the same. They both voted the right way on invading Iraq. I have a feeling if you gave them a month, they could come up with something that could reduce costs, but work for all Americans.
Those conservatives who may not like him should at least respect his principles and foresight:
Kucinich was elected Mayor of Cleveland in 1977 and served in that position until 1979.[15] At thirty-one years of age, he was the youngest mayor of a major city in the United States,[5] earning him the nickname "the boy mayor of Cleveland".[16] Kucinich's tenure as mayor is often regarded as one of the most tumultuous in Cleveland's history.[16][17] After Kucinich refused to sell Muni Light, Cleveland's publicly ownedelectric utility, the Cleveland mafia put out a hit on Kucinich. A hit man from Maryland planned to shoot him in the head during the Columbus DayParade, but the plot fell apart when Kucinich was hospitalized and missed the event. When the city fell into default shortly thereafter, the mafia leaders called off the contract killer.[18]
In the book Best and Worst of the Big-City Leaders, 1820–1993, Melvin G. Holli, in consultation with a panel of selected experts, claimed Kucinich to be among the ten worst big-city mayors of all time. Kucinich's supporters argue that Kucinich kept his campaign promise of refusing to sell Muni Light to CEI and was brave in not giving in to big business.[citation needed] Specifically, it was the Cleveland Trust Company that suddenly required all of the city's debts be paid in full, which forced the city into default, after news of Kucinich's refusal to sell the city utility. For years, these debts were routinely rolled over, pending future payment, until Kucinich's announcement was made public. In 1998 the council honored him for having the "courage and foresight" to stand up to the banks and saving the city an estimated $195 million between 1985 and 1995.[
Anyone who has the principle to do that, may not make a lot of Americans happy, but he won't leave our children with a mountain of debt, and he won't sell off our country to corporate interest.
I see no reason we should have any private sector involvment in either providing or insuring health care. Both segments could be done by the government for far less overall cost then the private sector with their over paid executives and greedy stockholders.
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