KerryCareâ„¢
BOSTON - Sen.
John Kerry on Monday will propose requiring all Americans to have health insurance by 2012, “with the federal government guaranteeing they have the means to afford it.
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In a speech scheduled for midday Monday at Faneuil Hall in Boston, he will advocate creating a program to cover catastrophic cases so an employer providing insurance doesn’t have to pass the cost to his other workers, and offering Americans the ability to buy into the same insurance program used by federal workers, such as members of Congress.
…Kerry will propose to pay for the program by repealing tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration that benefit those earning over $200,000 annually. He is not expected to immediately elaborate on how he would get his insurance mandate enacted into law.
Yes, even the AP felt the need to note that this is a plan without substance or a chance. I’m willing to hear people out on theories of universal care programs that don’t involve expanding the broken Medicare system, but this isn’t one of those plans. Seems to me this more directed at the 2008 primaries then anything else, could he be silly enough to run again?
— KnightHawk