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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's health care plan, representing a vast 1.5 trillion dollar increase in costs billable to the American taxpayer over the next ten years, depends for many of its bold new health-related policy initiatives on the advice and counsel of the candidate's sharp-tongued philanthropist and food fortune heiress wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry. Does America know what it's getting itself in for? With the death of her first senator husband, John Heinz III, Teresa Heinz Kerry found herself a billionairess in control of the Heinz Family Endowments one of the nation's largest philanthropic organizations dispensing charitable millions to...

John Kerry has a $1.5 trillion big government health plan that will put over 80 percent of those covered on Medicaid, will raise taxes an average of $969 per year per family, and will vastly expand the role of government in your health care decisions. The very group John Kerry claims to help - small businesses - oppose the Kerry health plan. They have called it an "overpriced albatross" and released a study showing his plan would impose 225 mandates on employers. Take a good look at the chart below. Is that how you would like to navigate the health...

WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Critics of Sen. John Kerry's health care plan say that one aspect of the scheme, the Congressional Health Plan, is simply a reincarnation of an old Clinton administration idea that is doomed to fail.The plan would open up to the entire country the health insurance scheme that federal employees have had for years under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan. Depending on where he or she lives, a worker enrolled in the federal health plan can choose from between 10 and 20 different health insurance plans, ranging from HMOs to fee-for-service schemes. Kerry's proposal would allow small...

MODERATOR: Mr. President, let's have a new question. It goes to you and let's get back to economic issues. Health insurance costs have risen over 36 percent over the last four years, according to The Washington Post. We're paying more, we're getting less. I would like to ask you who bears responsibility for this? Is it the government? Is it the insurance companies? Is it the lawyers? Is it the doctors? Is it the administration? MODERATOR: Senator Kerry. SENATOR KERRY: The reason health care costs are getting higher -- one of the principal reasons is that this administration has stood...

On Fox News, Hillary described Kerry's Health Care Plan as "sensible" and "affordable." On MSNBC, she declared Kerry is for tort reform.

ffordable, high-quality health care will keep our families healthy, our businesses competitive, and our country strong. Over the last three years, family premiums have increased by more than $3,512 and prescription drug prices have grown four times faster than inflation. These skyrocketing costs have hurt our economy and forced many families into bankruptcy. We deserve a president who understands that in America, regular check-ups shouldn't empty family checkbooks - a president who will put people ahead of insurance and drug companies. John Kerry and John Edwards have a plan to address soaring premiums and cut Americans a break. Their plan...

We all know that one of the biggest contributors to rising health care costs are frivolous lawsuits. Two of the worst states for this are Ohio and Pennsylvania. While President Bush has supported tort reform in Congress, Kerry/Edwards have both voted against it at one point or another. In fact Edwards made much of his fortune suing doctors and hospitals, bankrupting 2 or 3 hospitals in his home state. Much of this was over Edwards suing “baby” doctors, accusing them of causing cerebral palsy in people. In spite of no medical evidence for Edward’s case (in fact the consensus of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry argues that "over a million more Americans would lose their health insurance coverage" under President Bush in a television ad the Democrat's campaign rolled out Tuesday. The campaign also is going back on the air this week in Colorado with a moderate level of ads, two weeks earlier than it had planned. The shift comes as polls show the race tightening in the state, which traditionally leans toward the GOP. The ad, unveiled as Kerry presses his health care plan in Florida, seeks to make the case that the Republican doesn't have...

I am so sick of Kerry's spew about 45 million uninsured. Can anyone tell me how many of the 45 million are under 35 years old and chose to drive a new SUV ($450/mo) instead of paying for health insurance? Someone needs to do this research! Kerry's plan is to raise taxes on those who currently pay them so he can give welfare to those who do not. Note that I said wealfare because giving tax credits to those who pay no taxes is welfare, period! Why should I pay for these morons insurance when I have 3 dependents of...

ROCHESTER, Minn., Sept. 16 - Using terms reminiscent of Republican attacks on President Bill Clinton's ill-fated effort to reshape the health care system a decade ago, President Bush attacked Senator John Kerry's health care proposal on Thursday, saying "it's a plan that is massive and it's big, and it puts the government in control of health care." Mr. Bush's critique won applause from Republicans as he campaigned through Minnesota, a once reliably Democratic state that polls suggest is up for grabs in November. But his words drew a sharp rebuttal from the Kerry campaign, which said Mr. Bush was deliberately...

(2004-09-17) -- John Forbes Kerry, the Democrat presidential candidate, today denied allegations by President George Bush that Mr. Kerry has a plan for a "huge" government-controlled health care system. "George W. Bush can only wish that I had a plan so he could have something to attack," said Mr. Kerry, who is also a U.S. Senator. "But if I had a health care plan, don't you think I would have introduced it during my 19 years in the Senate? After all, the legislative branch is where legislation starts, not the executive. I could have written a health care bill, rallied...

IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Kerrycare Would Be Like Hillarycare. 2. The Cost Would Be Over $1 Trillion. 3. Quality Of Health Care Would Decline. 4. Bottom Line: We Don’t Want This. Introduction If elected president, John Kerry says he will implement a massive new health care plan that will radically change what is today the finest medical care system in the world. Kerry says he wants to insure the “44 million people” (a very questionable number) who don’t have health care insurance. His plan is similar to that served up by Hillary Clinton in 1994, a plan which would have...

My boss today mentioned being very upset with the Prez because he thinks he caught him in an inconsistency. (OK, he said "lie".) This genetic democrat* was considering making a Security vote for Bush, because like Ed Koch, he feels the domestic stuff on which he would disagree gets trumped by the need to kick terrorist hindquarters.He heard a sound bite of the president disapprovingly quoting a figure for J F'n's health care proposals. He says the next day the campaign came out with a figure for Bush's own health care proposals, and it's "twice as big."*He's a democrat cuz...

Senator John Kerry has proposed a plan to radically reform the U.S. health care system. If he is successful, millions of middle-income families will be enrolled in Medicaid, the federal-state health program for the poor. Millions more will get their insurance through a system of managed competition modeled after the federal employee’s health system and similar to what Hillary Clinton proposed more than a decade ago. Most people would be forced from the private health plans they have today. The ostensible purpose of Kerry’s proposal is to insure the uninsured. By some estimates as many as 44 million people lack...

ARLINGTON, VA – Bush-Cheney ’04 Campaign Chairman Gov. Marc Racicot today issued the following statement: “Governor Shaheen’s flailing attacks in New Mexico are part of the Kerry campaign’s desperate effort to regain control in a state where one-fourth of Democrats now support the President’s positive agenda for a safer world and more hopeful America. Shaheen knows that Kerry’s out of the mainstream policies ignore the priorities of New Mexico voters – she even agreed with the President's thoughtful stand against the Clinton Roadless Rule and opposed Kerry’s extreme environmentalist position. “The Kerry campaign’s effort to talk down New Mexico’s growing...

Throughout the presidential race, John Kerry has assiduously avoided proposals that might taint him as a traditional big-government liberal. His campaign documents are remarkably free of bureaucracy-building proposals. And in August, Kerry moved to pick up former President Bill Clinton's new-Democrat reinventing government mantle, unveiling a proposal to cut management ranks, freeze the federal travel budget and reduce its vehicle fleet. Nevertheless, in a speech in Greensboro, N.C., Wednesday, Kerry offered up a proposal for nothing less than a whole new Cabinet department. "What I want to do, what I'm determined to do, and it's in my health-care plan, is...

When Bill Clinton suggested that John Kerry talk more about domestic issues in order to boost his sagging presidential campaign, the creation of a new federal Department of Wellness was probably not what the former president had in mind. But that's what Mr. Kerry advocated Wednesday in Greensboro, N.C. MSNBC quoted him as stating that, in an effort to reduce the cost of health-care coverage, "I intend to have not just a Department of Health and Human Services, but a Department of Wellness." In truth, it's probably just a matter of time before the level of ridicule rises to a...

"John Kerry's attacks on health care costs ignore his opposition to the President's Medicare bill that will guarantee seniors affordable prescription drugs, his opposition to $25 billion in funding for rural health care and his opposition to medical liability reform that would curb the frivolous lawsuits costing Americans as much as $108 billion each year. It's not surprising voters are having so much trouble trusting a candidate whose government-run health care plan would shift costs to taxpayers while empowering Washington bureaucrats." -Steve Schmidt, Bush-Cheney '04 Spokesman Kerry Opposed Medicare Prescription Drug Bill, Skipped Nearly Every Vote Kerry Missed 36...

September 3, 2004--Cedar Rapids Heinz Kerry Hammers Healthcare The Democrats chose a different plan of attack to compete with the Bush rally in Cedar Rapids. Teresa Heinz Kerry met with about half a dozen people at the home of Linn County Supervisor Linda Langston. The small group talked about their concerns with the nation's healthcare system. Topping Heinz Kerry's list of concerns are restricted coverage for low-income people, the growing cost for prescription drugs, and adequate healthcare for childern. She says healthcare is one of the most important issues in this election. "We can not have healthcare becoming a double...