Democratic Health Care Forum in Las Vegas, sponsored by Nevada Democratic Party, the Center for American Progress, and SEIU (Service Employees International Union)
|
|
Drugs
Bill Richardson: Treatment & education over enforcement & incarceration.
|
Education
Bill Richardson: Eliminate junk food in schools; statewide smoking ban.
|
Families & Children
Chris Dodd: Add illness leave to Family and Medical Leave Act.
|
Government Reform
Mike Gravel: Institute healtharereforms by people’s National Initiative.
|
Health Care
Barack Obama: Employers are going to have to pay or play.
Barack Obama: Need political will to accomplish universal coverage.
Barack Obama: Address minority health needs by more coverage & targeting.
Bill Richardson: All Americans need same coverage as members of Congress.
Chris Dodd: Extend Medicaid to poorer families.
Chris Dodd: All Americans need same coverage as members of Congress.
Chris Dodd: Examine healthcare in context of income, education, & jobs.
Dennis Kucinich: HR 676, Conyers-Kucinich bill, establishes Medicare for all.
Dennis Kucinich: Break the hold of the insurance companies.
Dennis Kucinich: Competition between insurers only drives up profits.
Hillary Clinton: 1990s healthcare reforms laid groundwork for today’s reforms.
Hillary Clinton: Insurers must fund prevention without preexisting conditions.
Hillary Clinton: Require electronic medical record for all federal healthcare.
John Edwards: Dysfunctional health care system needs bold, dramatic change.
John Edwards: Universal coverage makes US business more competitve abroad.
John Edwards: Not possible to get universal coverage without raising taxes.
John Edwards: Job-based insurance can be accomplished, not single-payer.
Mike Gravel: Doctors do a lot of testing today to cover their backsides.
Mike Gravel: Single-payer health care plan via vouchers you can add to.
Mike Gravel: Real reform impossible under mercantile lobbying system.
Mike Gravel: Reforming employer-based system keeps historical accident.
Mike Gravel: Vouchers provide freedom of choice and perhaps public plan.
Mike Gravel: President has role to energize people for preventive health.
Mike Gravel: Phase out Medicare and Medicaid over time.
|
Homeland Security
Bill Richardson: Hero’s health card gives veterans access anywhere, anytime.
Bill Richardson: Reorder priorities: shift $400B from war to human needs.
|
Immigration
Bill Richardson: Legalization plan, not this stupid wall being proposed.
|
Jobs
Barack Obama: Burdens of globalization are placed on the backs of workers.
|
Principles & Values
John Edwards: In it for the duration, despite wife’s breast cancer.
Mike Gravel: Let the people decide: Solution is with you, not leaders.
|
The above quotations are from Democratic Health Care Forum in Las Vegas, sponsored by Nevada Democratic Party, the Center for American Progress, and SEIU (Service Employees International Union).
|
