Kerry Campaign: "Bush Has No Real Plans for Health Care"

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http://blog.johnkerry.com/rapidresponse/archives/002537.html

BUSH’S MISLEADING PROMISE: The Bush health plan would cover 10 million people.

REALITY: The Bush plan would not even reverse the increase in the uninsured under his watch.

3.7 million more Americans uninsured under Bush’s watch. In 2000, 39.8 million people were uninsured. In 2002, there were 43.6 million uninsured – a 3.7 million increase. Independent estimates show that Bush’s plan would cover 1.3 to 2.4 million people – not nearly enough to make up for the increase in the uninsured under Bush. Independent experts have looked at the Bush proposals and found that they would not even undo the increase in the uninsured we have seen during his term:

Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that 1.3 million more people will be insured. “Overall, this analysis finds that the President’s tax credit and tax deduction proposals for non-group health insurance, when fully implemented, would increase the number of people with health insurance by almost 1.3 million, at a cost of more than $4700 per newly insured person.” (Kaiser Family Foundation, “Coverage and Cost Impacts of the President’s Health Insurance Tax Credit and Tax Deduction Proposals,” March 2004)

[Nimrod]

1. Modern economics

Take a $3.00 item, double the price to $6.00, then drop it to $5.50 and call it a Bargain Sale.

That's our Georgie in damn near everything when you think about it.