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Running for Office

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Al Gore's Health Care Campaign

Today, we are a prosperous nation, and we can afford many things. But ill health is something we can't afford. That's why I led the fight in the Congress to stop the drug companies' price gouging, and make generic drugs more available...to bring competition to that market.

As President, I'll go much further, with your help I'll take the most dramatic steps toward
universal access to quality health coverage.

I'll fight to pass the Patients' Bill of Rights and put doctors in charge of health decisions, instead of HMO bureaucrats. I'll ensure that every single child in America has access to fully affordable, high quality coverage before the end of this coming four year term.

I'll put us on the road to full access to high quality health
coverage for every American family.

I'll make sure that any health care reform protects Medicare for future generations,
and expands it to include prescription drug coverage.

If we do this the right way, we can move our country toward coverage for every family - and I'm committed to doing so as President.

Key Points:

  • Universal access

  • Affordability

  • Cometition

  • Doctors in charge instead of HMO's

  • High Quality Health Care

BREAKING THE SILENCE

Typically not one to rise to criticism from Al Gore, Bill Bradley lobs some invective at his opponent's health care plan, claiming Gore has "abandoned that Democratic principle of basic health care for all Americans." Bradley also defends the cost of his plan, arguing that in such a stable economic climate, there's no better time to advocate universal health care. New Figures: Gore expert Emory University professor Ken Thorpe releases revised estimates of Bradley's plan. Thorpe now projects that Bradley's plan would cover 15 million Americans at a cost of $1.06 trillion, down from an earlier $1.5 trillion estimate.
Bill Bradley's Health Care Approach
  • Increase access, choice, affordability, and quality of care for all Americans
  • Improve protections for patients and a consumer's right to know
  • Maintain current insurance coverage systems that work for many people
  • Build new approaches to health care so that people are no longer disadvantaged by race, ethnicity, gender, income, geography or health status
  • Require access to equitable mental health services

Key Points:

No discrimination

Better access

Patient Choice of doctors

Affordability

High Quality care

Universal Access

Keep current systems that work

Mental Health Services
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