2006 Michigan Senate Debate: on Health Care


Debbie Stabenow: Health coverage needs to be a right, not a privilege

Q: Polls indicate support for universal healthcare coverage - do you support it?

STABENOW: Healthcare coverage needs to be a right, not a privilege. I've been laser focused on working with auto industry to more adequately and effectively to lower costs of prescription drugs. I've worked bi-partisan to allow you to bring prescription drugs back from Canada legally.

BOUCHARD: I do not support universal healthcare that the government. But we can and should do many things - such as tort reform.

Source: 2006 Michigan Senate Debate in Grand Rapids Oct 15, 2006

Mike Bouchard: No government-run universal healthcare

Q: Polls indicate support for universal healthcare coverage - do you support it?

STABENOW: Healthcare coverage needs to be a right, not a privilege. I've been laser focused on working with auto industry to more adequately and effectively to lower costs of prescription drugs. I've worked bi-partisan to allow you to bring prescription drugs back from Canada legally.

BOUCHARD: I do not support universal healthcare that the government. But we can and should do many things - such as tort reform.

Source: 2006 Michigan Senate Debate in Grand Rapids, x-ref Stabenow Oct 15, 2006

  • The above quotations are from Sen. Debbie Stabenow debates Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard, Oct. 15 2006, hosted by WGVU in Grand Rapids and shown on Michigan public TV stations at 8 p.m. Sunday evening. Transcribed by “Liberal, Loud, and Proud.”.
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Gov.Mike Huckabee
Rep.Duncan Hunter
Sen.John McCain
Rep.Ron Paul
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