Kucinich is right on healthcare (Boston Globe)

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.dennis4president.com/go/in-the-press/kucinich-is-right-on-healthcare-%28boston-globe%29

By Derrick Z. Jackson | August 29, 2007

"...He deserves more attention than he gets. On healthcare, he says what Americans believe, even as his rivals rake in contributions from the industry.


"One of the greatest hoaxes of this campaign -- everyone's for universal healthcare," Kucinich said. "It's like a mantra. But when you get into the details, you find out that all the other candidates are talking about maintaining the existing for-profit system."
Kucinich quoted the 2003 study published by the New England Journal of Medicine that found that 31 percent of healthcare expenditures pay not for actual care but for administrative costs. That compares with only 16.7 percent in Canada. Administrative and clerical employees make up 27 percent of the healthcare workforce in the United States, compared with 19 percent in Canada.
"With 46 million Americans without any health insurance at all and another 50 million underinsured," Kucinich said, "isn't it really time to look at the other models that exist that are workable for all the other industrialized nations in the world? When you think about it, the only thing that's stopping us is the hold that the private insurers have on our political system . . . corporate profits, stock options, executive salaries, advertising, marketing, the cost of paperwork. . ."

The hold of the healthcare industry on the top candidates is already apparent. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the top recipient of campaign contributions so far from the pharmaceutical and health products industry is Republican Mitt Romney ($228,260). But the next two are Democrats Barack Obama ($161,124) and Hillary Clinton ($146,000). The top recipient of contributions from health professionals is Clinton ($990,611). Romney is second at $806,837, and Obama third at $748,637.

[Double T]

1. Dennis Kucinich is the ONLY candidate that is truly offering........

a viable universal health care plan. The corrupt and greed mongering HMOs and pharmaceutical companies must be put in check, or in the case of HMOs, eliminated. Health care in the USA is in a shambles with double digit annual cost increases from penny pinching health care providers. The corporatist front runners from BOTH parties have NO PLANS for universal health care, just the SOS with a new wrapper.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

2. True. True. nt.

[The Sushi Bandit]

3. K&R

[Fearless]

4. Yup.

[reprobate]

5. Isn't it amazing? The rest of the industrial world uses one basic model, we're the only holdout.

And surprise, we're the ones with the corporate owned government.

I'm sorry, but government should NEVER be run by the profit motive.

Winston Churchil was right. He said: "You can trust the Americans to do the right thing. After they've tried everything else."

[0007]

6. Kucinich is the man right on everything

and I can't think of any other person worthy.

[The Sushi Bandit]

7. Agreed!