Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Kucinich blasts Clinton health plan

Democratic presidential contender Dennis Kucinich said in a Las Vegas appearance he is not impressed with the health plan put forward by Hillary Clinton.
|
|
 
  
Published: Sept. 18, 2007 at 2:26 PM

LAS VEGAS, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential contender Dennis Kucinich said in a Las Vegas appearance he is not impressed with the health plan put forward by Hillary Clinton.

Rep. Kucinich, D-Ohio, said at his new Las Vegas campaign headquarters that the New York senator's health care plan is not different enough from the current system, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Tuesday.

"Same old same old," Kucinich said, in reference to the Clinton plan. "Look, with all due respect to Senator Clinton, she's talking about continuing the present system."

Kucinich said Clinton's plan involves combining public and private resources to help purchase insurance coverage from for-profit businesses.

"Who wins with that? The insurance companies," Kucinich said. "I don't know if it has any connection to the fact that she (Clinton) is the No. 2 recipient in the entire Congress of money from health insurance companies. But I imagine if they didn't like it, they wouldn't give her money."

Kucinich said his own plan would do away with health insurance entirely, with the federal government footing the bill for any medical care needed by the people.

"No more premiums, no more co-pays, no more deductibles," he promised, to cheers. "Health care is a right in America. It is our basic right."

Topics: Dennis Kucinich, Hillary Rodham Clinton
© 2007 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Protesters, police clash at NATO summit Notable deaths of 2012 2012 Billboard Music Awards
The 137th Preakness Stakes Annual Solar eclipse occurs in U.S. Chen Guangcheng arrives in the U.S.
Additional Top News Stories
1 of 20
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visited in Washington
View Caption
Veterans etch the names of their friends inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War on May 26, 2012 in Washington, DC. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. UPI/Pat Benic
fark
Hi, I'm a stupid idiot. Please come rob me
Apparently there's no mandatory retirement age for burglars. w/classic mugshot
Dentistry in the UK needs reform. Unfortunately you can't just put an obvious tag in for the actual...
The Twins' infield is a very dusty place
High school wants to keep the grass down by...c) installing emus, alpacas, and sheep which will...
Photoshop this swooping cyclist