[Iowa-dx] Clarification: Kucinich Supports Single-Payer Universal National Care

Daryl Northrop - Co Chair Iowa Green Party dnorthrop@PolkCoGreens.org
Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:38:49 -0600


Interesting point, Wendy. My father, an ardent Christian Scientist, may 
have to weigh in on this one. :):):)

I suppose opposing the expansion of healthcare in any form is a way of 
rejecting the falsehood of mortal medicine, and encourage people to 
adopt a "faith-based" approach to healing.

However, the rhetorical question of "Who would Jesus deny healthcare 
to?" comes to mind.

I'm going to stop typing now, before I am struck my lightening......

Daryl

Wendy Barth wrote:
>   good summary of all the democratic and republican candidates' 
> positions on health care is at
> 
> http://www.americansforhealthcare.org/storage/materials/AHC_Comparision%20Booklet.pdf 
> 
> 
> Most of the Democrats "achieve universal access" by requiring everyone 
> to purchase insurance and advocating a hybrid of public and private 
> insurance, with individual differences in how the public insurance is 
> allocated. Gravel and Kucinich have single-payer plans which do away 
> with insurance, Gravel's uses vouchers (?)
> 
> Most of the Republicans "oppose legally mandated universal coverage" 
> (angling for the Christian Scientist vote?)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> *Received: *Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:38:03 PM CST
> *From: *dr_pac-man@mchsi.com
> *To: *iowa-dx@gp-us.org
> *Cc: *kputman@mchsi.com (kelley putman), tpfeiff@earthlink.net
> *Subject: *[Iowa-dx] Clarification: Kucinich Supports Single-Payer 
> Universal National Care
> 
> 
>     I was wrong.
> 
>     To clarify;
> 
>     Kucinich supports a universal national single-payer health care
>     system which is
>     the position of the Green Party platform.
> 
>     No other Democratic or Republican candidate supports our position,
>     which I
>     understand was the position of the Democratic Party platfom from the
>     time of
>     Harry Truman until Bill Clinton was nominated for President in 1992.
>     Please
>     correct me if I'm wrong. I feel that what was once a majority
>     position in the
>     Democratic Party has been swept away in the Party's movement to the
>     right.
> 
>     http://www.richardsonforpresident.com/issues/healthcare
> 
>     2004 Green Party Platform
>     http://www.gp.org/platform/2004/socjustice.html#1004611
> 
>     Cosponsors fof The National Health Insurance Bill (HR 676)
>     http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR00676:@@@P
> 
>     Peace,
> 
>     Bob
> 
> 
> 
>     ---------------------- Original Message: ---------------------
>     From: "Kelley Putman" <kputman@mchsi.com>
>     To: <tpfeiff@earthlink.net>, <dr_pac-man@mchsi.com>,
>     <iowa-dx@gp-us.org>
>     Subject: Re: [Iowa-dx] Richardson and Kucinich support Universal
>     Health Care
>     Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 02:26:01 +0000
> 
>      > Richardson also supports universal health care.
>      >
>      > Kelley
>      >
>      >
>      > ----- Original Message -----
>      > From: <tpfeiff@earthlink.net>
>      > To: <dr_pac-man@mchsi.com>; <iowa-dx@gp-us.org>
>      > Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 8:08 PM
>      > Subject: Re: [Iowa-dx] Only Kucinich supports Universal Health Care
>      >
>      >
>      > > If Karen Kubby isn't on this list, would someone ask her to
>     share her
>      > > caucus experiences? I'm trying to visualize a juggler at the
>     moment when
>      > > she has an A and a Z in the air with DEF in hand. When fatigue
>     begins to
>      > > take its toll, which set of letters will be the first to fall?
>     Will there
>      > > ever be a mid-air meeting/collision, or is the juggler such a
>     master of
>      > > her
>      > > craft that there will always be uniform separation?
>      > >
>      > > Ted Pfeiff
>      > > Scott County
>      > >
>      >
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