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President Bush wants to achieve universal health care before he leaves office [Vanity]
USA Today ^ | 9.18.07 | staff

Posted on 09/18/2007 8:02:13 AM PDT by rface

Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said GW Bush would like some sort of universal health care before the end of his term.

Leavitt stated that Bush will veto a Democratic plan that would add $35 billion in taxpayer subsidies to the Children's Health Insurance Program.... Leavitt also stated that Bush will urge Congress to search for a way to ensure coverage for all Americans.

"He'd like to see the larger debate begin," Leavitt said. "The very best opportunity we have may well be in the next 15 months."

(Excerpt) Read more at usatoday.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bush; derangement; healthcare; hhs; leavitt; syndrome; term2
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To: Owen

‘There has to be a conservative approach or the Democrats will have the issue all to themselves.’

The last time this was attempted, in 1993, that wasn’t necessary. All that was required was noting 7% of the economy would fall under goverment control, then pointing out no other Federal Program has been ‘successful’ enough for this to be considered by intelligent people already receiving the best healthcare in the world.

If the President wants to get into this, he should go to the United Nations and ask they intervene in the war being waged by the Trial Lawyers Association against the AMA, specifically ob/gyn’s.

The doctors are being ‘massacred’. Stop the killing....of the medical profession by the John Edward’s of the world.


41 posted on 09/18/2007 8:20:10 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: rface
I just didn’t think I could get MORE disappointed in his presidency.
42 posted on 09/18/2007 8:20:23 AM PDT by hophead ( "Enjoy Every Sandwich")
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To: rface

My health care reform proposal: pay your own damn bills.


43 posted on 09/18/2007 8:21:09 AM PDT by KingSnorky
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To: pillut48
Canada care,
44 posted on 09/18/2007 8:22:01 AM PDT by null and void (<---- Awake and filled with a terrible resolve...)
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To: Uncle Miltie

>>>You can’t out-bid Democrats on spending, mandates, government control. Ever. <<<

Should a business be allowed to demand compensation for its services?

If a government is going to mandate that a business render services before compensation, should not that government put a system in place to assure the business that consumers will be able to pay for services rendered after they are indeed rendered?

>>>Freedom should be non-negotiable. <<<

You don’t seem so concerned about freedom when it involves hospitals and healthcare providers. Or perhaps there are instances where effective-slave labor amounts to freedom?

Fill me in.


45 posted on 09/18/2007 8:23:29 AM PDT by CheyennePress
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To: rface

With a Republican in the white house, the headline should read “President Wants to End Department of Health and Human Services Before he Leaves Office.”


46 posted on 09/18/2007 8:23:39 AM PDT by demshateGod (Duncan Hunter for president)
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To: rface
That is a possible strategy. In other word he will force Hillary Clinton to present her socialist heatlhcare plan before the election which will not pass in the current environment and hence deal her a major campaign issue blow.
47 posted on 09/18/2007 8:26:25 AM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: ravingnutter

I agree. I was just answering one of the posters questions. That is all. I can’t have BDS because I am in the military. I have to like the President regardless of personal feelings.


48 posted on 09/18/2007 8:26:25 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: rface
Sigh. The guy isn't finished coming out of the closet yet, either.

Nor will he give up on his other globalist agendas, from the Law of the Sea Treaty [Terminated with prejudice by Reagan, but revived under HWBush and Xlinton, and W] and the N.A.U.'s elements being pushed piece-meal by the Rats, RINOs and W...


49 posted on 09/18/2007 8:29:36 AM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: Badeye

No, you misunderstood. The Bush conservative approach was STRICTLY a tax policy that provided people the ability to make their own choices. Credits and deductions would be provided based on the choices made by the people. There would be no new government bureaucracy.

Look at this carefully. Bush’s SOTU proposal is the ONLY counter on the conservative side to the Democrat government control plans for universal health coverage.


50 posted on 09/18/2007 8:30:06 AM PDT by Owen
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To: Kay
I’m not really inclined to believe any editorial board.
From what I see here is the usual media trick. Neither Bush or Leavitt is proved to have actually said “Universal Health Care” or “seeking coverage for all Americans” because the words would have been in quotes. Another thing is Leavitt is supposedly speaking for Bush but before I believe anything I would like to hear it from President Bush himself and it’s not on his web site.
51 posted on 09/18/2007 8:30:24 AM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: Owen

Hmmmm. Okay, I will do so. thanks.


52 posted on 09/18/2007 8:30:48 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: KingSnorky

Many folks choose not to get insurance and they spend money on cigarettes. Go figure. Th rich can pay for hospital bills themselves. However, there are many folks who cannot get health insurance due to pre-existing conditions or the cost of insurance is prohibitive.

I think it is good to engage in debate about this issue but I do not want socialized medicine. The doctors would see 2 patients per hour — govt work, after all. It would take 6 months to see a doctor.

Our country has a hx of being inovative. Maybe some genius could figure out a private way to accomplish medical care for all.


53 posted on 09/18/2007 8:31:02 AM PDT by Kay
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To: rface
"not a scam.....this report is "reworded and rewritten and redone" from a reputable source that cannot be posted here because of "copywrite complaint"..."

You can still post a snippet and the link from the source so we can go there and read the full article.

54 posted on 09/18/2007 8:31:29 AM PDT by Spunky ("Everyone has a freedom of choice, but not of consequences.")
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To: tennteacher
The prez should make it official and switch parties.

There's only one party in DC. "Republican vs. Democrat" is just a puppet show.

55 posted on 09/18/2007 8:34:37 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: rface

http://www.newsroomamerica.com/politics/story.php?id=392390


56 posted on 09/18/2007 8:35:12 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping that it will eat him last..)
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To: rface
The sourse (which is a non source) and being posted by you ... let's just say that I have my doubts!

LLS

57 posted on 09/18/2007 8:35:32 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: Petronski

“Well there’s a bright side here, anyway.”

That’s true but the problem is that we have a Children’s Health Insurance Program. Instead of arguing about how much to fund it, the president should be battling with congress over getting rid of it.


58 posted on 09/18/2007 8:37:25 AM PDT by demshateGod (Duncan Hunter for president)
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To: rface
Pres. Bush's "ensuring coverage" is with plans like HSA's.

Please don't demogogue. We get enough of that from the MSM.

59 posted on 09/18/2007 8:38:31 AM PDT by what's up
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To: rface

He’s just being consistent. Stabbing the base in the front.


60 posted on 09/18/2007 8:38:40 AM PDT by Ron in Acreage (Conservative 1st, republican sometime)
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