Let Kerry fix health-care mess
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I know, thereâs only one issue that matters in this presidential contest, the war in Iraq. But just in case some voters are willing to look at a domestic issue offering a crystal-clear difference between President George W. Bush and Sen.
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Democrat John Kerry, citing a newly commissioned study, said on Thursday that rising health care expenses have cost American jobs and President Bush has done nothing to solve the problem.
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Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry blamed President Bush on Thursday for failing to take action that would bring down health-care costs for Americans and help the 5
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Sen. John Kerry hasn't gone away quietly. In his first major speech since conceding the presidential election, the Massachusetts Democrat took aim at President Bush's health care proposals on Thursday, saying they were irresponsible and won't meet the needs of children and low-income families who don't have health coverage.
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It&#39;s time Gray Matters put up or shut up, instead of merely complaining about what passes for the American health care system.
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Too many important policy issues are unlikely to be addressed by major party candidates in this year&#39;s presidential campaign. As of the recent Republican Convention, Sen. John Kerry
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Thursday proposed cutting health care costs by overhauling the patent process for breakthrough drugs and requiring health insurance companies to spend at least 85 percent of their premiums on patient care.
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MILWAUKEE John Kerry says rising health care costs are putting the financial squeeze on seniors. He&#39;s promising to ease that pinch, which he blames squarely on President Bush.
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Senator John Kerry (DâMA), the Democratic presiÂ­dential candidate, is offering an expansive plan to increase insurance coverage and control health care costs.
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LANCASTER, Pa. - Teresa Heinz Kerry says "only an idiot" would fail to support the health care plan proposed by her husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry...
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President George W. Bush and White House rival John Kerry are pushing competing remedies for the crippled US healthcare system, with some 45 million Americans are unable to afford health insurance.
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As public health officials scramble to find more flu vaccine and experts debate how to increase the U.S. supply, Sen. John Kerry hopes voters will come to one conclusion: The severe shortage the United States now faces is President Bush's fault.
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Health care has taken center stage in the race between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry. WebMD Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich talked to top staff members from each campaign to find out
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As elections get tighter and more complicated, it's inevitable that one of them will be so thoroughly botched it'll have to be done over. It's time to start thinking about how. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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I hope the Republicans come prepared to debate health care this year, and they leave the platitudes and slogans home.  Enough of us have been seriously sick, or know someone who has, or have family members who have been or are now. The way the Republicans describe health care, it's as if they've never been through it or don't know anyone who has. I got some pushback, not much, from a casual mention of universal health care a few days ago. Some think the problem can be solved through the "private sector" but that's nonsense. There is no such thing in health care. It's not a free market, as anyone who's been through it can tell you. There's nothing free about it. (Free as in freedom, not as in free beer.) When you check into a hospital you turn over your whole being to the health care system. I can't imagine anything changing that, nor do I think it should. When you're dangerously ill, decisions must be made about you. To people who have never relinquished control, it's a big trip, because that's what you have to do. You spend huge amounts of time waiting. You can't sleep because hospitals are 24-by-7. You're much more likely to get an infection in a hospital, and infection on top of other disease can kill. Even so, people are treated and some even are cured by the system. Lives are definitely prolonged, pain is eased.  Whether we have universal health care or not, it won't change the basics of how health care works, and how unfair it is to be sick and fighting for your life. But there are some things we can change, and if you have a heart, and think about it, I don't see how anyone could be against universal health care and still sleep at night. One commenter said that no one is ever turned away from an emergency room, as if that's all there was to health care.  First, emergency rooms do turn people away, and some of them die. But most disease is not treated in emergency rooms. If you need drugs to treat cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, AIDS, heart disease, depression, arthritis, emphysema, to name a few common chronic diseases -- you're out of luck if you don't have insurance. You could die years before you would with treatment, or might suffer, where if you had good insurance, you wouldn't.  I'm lucky I have good health insurance. It's lucky that I lived in Massachusetts when my COBRA policy expired, it's the one state in the US that has liberalized health insurance. I'm lucky that I can afford the monthly payments. I'm lucky. But why should getting the care and treatment you need depend on luck? We can do so much better. And I think our country would do better with a healthy population that knows if they, or someone they love, got sick they'll the help they need. It'll be interesting to see if we can get McCain to talk about this, if he turns out to be the Republcan nominee. The Republicans have never been responslble about this issue. It's of huge importance to Americans, and McCain presents himself as an honest person. He must understand how the health care system actually works. He's been through it himself, probably many times.  BTW, Hillary's passion for computerizing medical records is a good thing. She's right, a lot of money could be saved, the system could be made much more efficient, people would get better treatment, and lives would be saved. The sooner we get busy doing this, the better it will be for all of us.
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Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry Monday said we need a fresh start on health care in America, and he outlined his plan to help middle-class families by cutting costs and expanding access to quality care.
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Expand Medicaid. Give tax breaks to employers. Offer health savings accounts. Sell the sort of health insurance Congress gets. These ideas and others are part of the presidential