SCENARIOS-Daschle brings stature to US health debate Reuters - Nov 20, 2008 About 47 million Americans, nearly 16 percent of the population, are without health insurance. Provide affordable healthcare to all Americans while ensuring ...
Share the Warmth needs more children's coats Ithaca Journal, NY - Nov 29, 2008 Child Health Plus provides free or reduced cost health insurance for uninsured children up to age 19. Families should not drop existing coverage for their ...
New Jersey hospitals struggle with economy The Times of Trenton - NJ.com, NJ - Nov 29, 2008 ... challenge: more and more people find themselves without health insurance while hospitals remain obligated to provide "charity care" to the uninsured. ...
Where Should Health Care Rank in Obama's List of Priorities? AlterNet, CA - Nov 10, 2008 Consequently, while just 16.12 percent of 2004 voters" who chose Kerry "were non-white, fully 20.15 percent of 2008 voters" who plumped for Obama were ...
POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Law unclear on funding mammograms Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV - County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly last week announced he would sponsor free mammograms for women without health insurance. According to the county, ...
Obama: The big fundraising guns MSNBC - He rejects mandates for adults to buy health insurance and encourages the expansion of global exchanges for carbon-emissions credits. ...
Betting on the West: Colorado Rocky Mountain News, CO - Aug 6, 2008 Health care is a major issue for both residents. Wear and her husband, Keith, pay $1000 a month for health insurance. Recently, her husband had tests and ...
Obama's health care plan: The return of Kerrycare Enter Stage Right, Canada - Jul 27, 2008 It will be only a small step more to fully nationalized health insurance. So there we have them, the two cornerstones of Obama's health care vision: put the ...
Kerry, Snowe Press SBA on Energy Efficiency to Ease Crisis MarketWatch - Jul 31, 2008 ... greatest concern - behind access to affordable health insurance - with 42 percent of NFIB members surveyed indicating that this problem is "critical. ...
PMC kickoff: Sen. John Kerry riding for Kennedy NECN, MA - Aug 1, 2008 ... their health insurance from one place to another, he's been there for everybody." And as a way to give back, Sen. Kerry and his team have raised $120000 ...
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Kerry calls for universal health insurance by 2012
Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts on Monday proposed that all Americans be required to have health insurance by 2012, and that the government should take steps to make sure anyone uninsured at that point receives coverage.
Kerry, a potential presidential contender in 2008, unveiled a health care plan that would cover every child in America, give Americans access to the same type of health care members of Congress receive and lower costs for employers.
The proposal, the latest in a series of policy speeches by Kerry as he prepares for another possible White House bid, includes many of the same health care elements he proposed during his 2004 presidential campaign.
Kerry said health care was "not only the great unfinished business of half a century, but a matter of fundamental moral values," and he set a goal of health coverage for everyone by 2012.
"Experts -- some of them here today -- believe that my plan will provide coverage for all Americans by 2012," Kerry told several hundred people at historic Faneuil Hall, where he launched and ended his 2004 presidential campaign.
"But if we're not there by 2012, we will require that all Americans have health insurance, with the federal government guaranteeing they have the means to pay for it," Kerry said.
He said his plan could be financed by repealing the Bush administration's tax cuts for people earning more than $200,000 a year. He did not say how he would enforce the proposal to have all Americans insured if his plan is not implemented by 2012.
Roughly 46 million Americans have no health insurance, and Kerry said "it is time to jump-start a debate around the country that can shake Washington into action before the health care crisis devastates millions more of America's families -- and hollows out America's economy."
This year, Kerry's home state of Massachusetts became the first in the nation to require residents to have health insurance.
In April, Republican Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, another potential White House candidate in 2008, signed a bill to provide health care to about 95 percent of the state's half-million uninsured residents by 2009. Romney signed the bill in the same hall where Kerry spoke on Monday.
