"KUCINICH & DOCTORS AGREE ON UNIVERSAL COVERAGE
From Associated Press today: "Washington -- Nearly 8,000 U.S.
physicians are calling for government-financed national health
insurance, which they say would cover every American while saving
billions of dollars.
"Ten years after President Clinton's national health plan died in
Congress, tangled in complexity and under fierce assault from the
medical, insurance and pharmaceutical industries, the doctors argue that
private sector solutions have failed. The doctors would put in place a
single-payer system -- essentially an upgraded and expanded version of
Medicare...
"Of the Democratic presidential candidates, only Rep. Dennis Kucinich is
advocating a single-payer system."
Our campaign is giving voice not only to the aspirations of millions of
Americans in need of health coverage, but many thousands of physicians
and healthcare practitioners who know they can't adequately serve the
public until national health insurance is implemented.
http://www.kucinich.us/issues/issue_universalhealth.htmDENNIS AS SEABISCUIT
Steve Cobble, Kucinich adviser and veteran campaign strategist, offers
the following analysis:
Columnist Mark Shields made a crucial point in a recent essay when he
wrote that "Democrats nominate dark horses, not front-runners...Only
twice in the last 44 years has the Democratic nominee for President
emerged in the year before the election as the clear front-runner in the
Gallup Poll." For example: McGovern ended 1971 at 5%; Carter did not
register in any of the four 1975 polls. Clinton was polling at only 6%
as late as October of 1991.
This history is important to our campaign because it proves that
national polling at this stage is irrelevant. Here is what's relevant:
Are we raising sufficient money and building field organizations in
early states? Do we have a base in the party and issues on which we
stand out to primary voters? Are we beginning to move up the ladder in
early states?
The Kucinich Campaign can answer yes on all counts. We ended the second
quarter with a million dollars in the bank, thanks to our strong MoveOn
primary vote -- and we've added field staff in many states. In two
weeks, our MeetUp membership went from 1,200 to 8,000 and we'll soon
move past John Kerry into second place. Dennis is drawing the largest
crowds around the country due to unique positions on universal health
insurance, corporate globalization, the Iraq war, Pentagon cuts,
"Patriot Act," etc. We've moved up in Iowa -- with Willie Nelson's
concerts to begin.
Kucinich is the dark horse candidate of 2003. We've exceeded
expectations on every front from the beginning. Like Seabiscuit, we
don't have to lead from pole to pole -- just be in front at the end."
I especially like Dennis as SEABISCUIT... Rumor has it thats what the Hollywood circles are calling him. Hes huge over there. Also its interstesting the Doctors are endorseing Dennis's plan as opposed to Deans. Dean did used to be a doctor... maybe he'll come around!
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