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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (1919)	5/4/2003 4:01:19 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 10965

LOL.... Ya Steve Forbes , I almost forgot that he ran. He did have some good idea's. Flat/ graduated tax or something like that. I was for McCain. Home state boy,War hero,Barry Goldwater hand picked him. But Bush is cool now!JMHO

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (1919)	5/5/2003 9:24:52 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10965

WHY WAS HEALTH CARE SUCH A HOT ISSUE FOR DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES? If you watched that sad, uninspiring debacle known as the Democrat’s presidential debate Saturday night you can understand the sense of despair that exists in leftist circles. Not one of these candidates is creating any real passion in the electorate. Howard Dean? A leftist nutcase. Kuchinich? He’s the guy who ran Cleveland into bankruptcy. John Kerry? He has one campaign line: “I served in Vietnam, and you didn’t” One issue that seems hot – and will remain so – is health care. Richard Gephardt has proposed one of the most insanely expensive government spending programs you could imagine … all in the name of universial health care. Why is this issue so important to Democrats? Control. Control and dependency. If you take a look at the entire breadth of Democratic policy proposals you find one common thread. Every single Democratic idea for a government program will inevitably lead to greater citizen dependency on government, and greater government control of citizens. This is no truer anywhere than it is in the area of health care. Democrats and other big-government lovers know that when you control a person’s access to health care, you control that person absolutely. You literally have him by the short hairs. Democrats hide their power grab in the verbiage of “concern” over “the availability and cost of health care.” Sounds good at election time, but it doesn’t stand up to logical argument. There are many ways the health care costs could be contained and the availability of affordable health care expanded. We could expand medical savings plans, make health insurance premiums deductible to the individual, end idiotic and unreasonable mandated coverages, grand broader practice authority to nurse practitioners and other medical personnel. Remember, though; the primary goal here is not to improve the delivery systems for health care, nor to make it more affordable. The primary goal is dependency and control. boortz.com