Posted on 01/16/2008 12:36:55 PM PST by CedarDave
SANTA FE— Gov. Bill Richardson launched his personal campaign for universal health care Tuesday.
Some of his key arguments, advanced in an in-depth interview with the Journal:
* Health care is a basic human right.
* Universal health care is doable this year and it won't break the bank.
* Physicians are too greedy and need to give a little.
* A so-called single-payer system is out of the question.
* New Mexico has been historically cautious; now is the time to move boldly to make sure every resident of this state has health insurance.
Richardson, fresh off his abandoned presidential campaign, appeared ready to jump back into the fray in Santa Fe. He said the state has the money and lawmakers have the time to enact universal health care coverage in their 30-day session.
Richardson said covering the state's 400,000 uninsured people is both a human rights issue and an economic development program. And it's good politics, he said.
The governor said he would not support new taxes to pay for universal coverage and they aren't needed.
The plan developed by administration staff says that new spending on public coverage programs would be offset by increased economic activity in the health care sector, by funds collected from employers who don't pay employees' health insurance, and through more premium tax collections as more people buy insurance.
The governor said legislators have told him his Health Solutions plan is too expensive and that an election year is no time to consider universal coverage.
He discounted those arguments. "That was their objection to everything," ... he said.
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The governor called health "a human right of every citizen" and access to care similar to a citizen's right to public education. "Everybody deserves the best possible health care," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at abqjournal.com ...
Grrr...
(PING)
Indeed!! (Maybe a Democrat lawyer politician?)
So says Eleanor Roosevelt's UN Declaration of Human Rights. The document does not have a fiscal note attached.
He’s going to jack up taxes to pay for that.
greedy doctors ??????????????
what if all the doctors took their football and went home.
Lost me on the very first “principle.” Food and shelter are not basic human RIGHTS. Neither is medical care.
Suppose, hypothetically, there were no physicians, nurses, etc. (or that, more realistically, the number OF them were about 10% of what reasonable care required for a given population). Then what? Would The Government *conscript* people into serving as doctors, at a slave wage? We may be headed in that direction in a few decades.
Yep, a brand new "entitlement" with costs going up exponentially each year.
NM has lost a lot of good health care professionals due to insurance issues, especially costs for malpractice insurance. When you have to pay more to work in your profession than you receive in income, you go elsewhere.
Which can only be had by the free market system.
The present mess is the direct result of direct government intervention starting in 1964, and that is when health car became disconnected from free market principles and began spiraling out of control.
The solution is less government or no government intervention, not more.
>Health care is a basic human right. - No, it is not.
>Universal health care is doable this year and it won’t break the bank. No, it isn’t and yes, it will.
>Physicians are too greedy and need to give a little.
Sure fire plan for no doctors except the lowest common denominator
>A so-called single-payer system is out of the question.
Any government plan is out of the question.
Richardson is little more then a Clinton lap dog.
A real big thinker there ya know.
What drives up healthcare costs are not doctors' fees, but hospitalization, treatments, medications--
Then students to medical school will be political appointments. Prepare to die.
No it is not. Health care is about choices. Choices that will be restricted or taken away by government mandated health care.
* Universal health care is doable this year and it won't break the bank.
Of course it will break your bank. It has everywhere else it is tried.
* Physicians are too greedy and need to give a little.
Wage and price controls destroy the market place and quality. KMart health care is quackery.
* A so-called single-payer system is out of the question.
Which means that I have to grease the palms of my buddies in large health care coporations to ram this through.
I watched my physician sister eat ramen noodles for about 10 years to finally have an opportunity to make a decent living.
I’m sick and tired of these panderers demonizing people who work really hard to make something of themselves and whose dedication to excellence make all of our lives better.
People who simply flap their gums for a living are the greedy ones.
Health care is a basic human right.
And which amendment to our Constitution might this be, hhhhmmmm????
case in point......I had an issue w/ my hands
sorta like slow healing broken skin sores..........thought the worst, went to a memorial hospital..........turns out a golf glove from China which advertised it was washable , well........it had a residue that broke my skin out.....
the cure ?.............1% hydrocortisone.....3.99
on the shelf...............
hospital bill ?
1000 dollars
No it's not. It's a service offered for sale.
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