A section of Creamer's book, titled
"Progressive Agenda for Structural Change,"
laid out the blueprint for a national health-care plan and recommended the president create a "national consensus that the health-care system is in crisis."
Other Creamer recommendations include:
Creamer's plan, written in 2006, explicitly proposed that it be carried out in 2009, once a "progressive Democrat is elected President" and once Democrats could count on 60 votes in the Senate.-"We must create a national consensus that health care is a right, not a commodity; and that government must guarantee that right."
-"Our messaging program over the next two years should focus heavily on reducing the credibility of the health-insurance industry and focusing on the failure of private health insurance."
-We need not agree in advance on the components of a plan, but we must foster a process that can ultimately yield consensus."
"We must focus especially on the mobilization of the labor movement and the faith community."
That’s some good info if these candidates would take and run with it. It may shake up some dems.