Healthcare for All

The American people understand that good health is the foundation of individual achievement and economic prosperity. Ensuring quality, affordable health care for every single American is essential to children's education, workers' productivity and businesses' competitiveness. We believe that covering all is not just a moral imperative, but is necessary to making our health system workable and affordable. Doing so would end cost-shifting from the uninsured, promote prevention and wellness, stop insurance discrimination, help eliminate health care disparities, and achieve savings through competition, choice, innovation, and higher quality care.

Health care reform must also provide adequate incentives for innovation to ensure that Americans have access to evidence-based and cost-effective health care. Research should be based on science, not ideology. For the millions of Americans and their families suffering from debilitating physical and emotional effects of disease, time is a precious commodity, and it is running out.

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Another Former Republican Senator for Obama

October 28, 2008 - In an op-ed printed in the Washington Post this morning, former Maryland Senator Charles Mathias (R) endorsed Senator Barack Obama. Mathias served in the House of Representatives from 1961 until 1969 when he was elected to the U.S. Senate and served until 1987.
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McCain Claims He Hasn't Flipped on Anything from 2000

October 23, 2008 - John McCain told the local CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C. that ''I'm the same guy'' from 2000, claiming that he hasn't flipped on any issue since his last run for the presidency.
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We Can't Afford John McCain

October 17, 2008 - Taxing health benefits? We can't afford John McCain.
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''Taketh''

October 8, 2008 - Watch the latest ad after Senator Barack Obama handily won last night's second presidential debate.
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$2 Trillion in Retirement Accounts Lost

October 7, 2008 - Americans' retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months, Congress' top budget analyst estimated Tuesday. Yet, John McCain stlil wants to privatize Social Security.
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''The Subject''

October 7, 2008 - We know what kind of game John McCain is going to play for the remainder of the election. A top aide recently admitted to that ''If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we’re going to lose.'' John McCain, who is out of ideas, out of touch and out of time, is desperately trying to change the subject. It will not work.
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Howard Dean Releases Health Care Actuality

October 3, 2008 - DNC Chairman Howard Dean released the following radio actuality on the choice voters face this election between four more years of broken Bush-McCain health care policies and the affordable health care plan that would be available to every American under the Obama-Biden plan:
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''Can't Explain''

October 3, 2008 - Last night at the vice presidential debate, Senator Joe Biden informed the American public on what John McCain plans to do with healthcare -- deregulate it like he deregulated the financial industry -- and then tax health benefits to pay for a $5,000 tax credit per family that will not even cover half of the average healthcare costs to the average American family. Watch the latest ad.
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Editorial Rips John McCain's Plan for Healthcare

October 2, 2008 - Concord Monitor (NH) editorial ripped John McCain's 'plans' to 'blow up' the current healthcare system that would leave far fewer Americans with insurance.
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John McCain: A Risk We Cannot Afford to Take

September 22, 2008 - John McCain says he wants to deregulate the healthcare industry just like he and his allies like Phil Gramm did to the banking industry. Watch this latest advertisement from the Obama campaign.
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