Howard Dean Releases Health Care Actuality
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:
"Hello, I'm Howard Dean; Dr. Howard Dean. For too long we've been talking about how to reform our health care system. Today, millions of Americans are struggling to pay for health care, and some 47 million Americans don't have any health care, including nearly 9 million children.
"Senator McCain's answer to the problem is more of President Bush's failed health care policies. Senator McCain is trying to tell Americans that he'll offer them a tax credit to pay for health care, but what he doesn't say is that he'll pay for this plan by actually taxing your health care benefits for the first time ever.
"Senator McCain also wants to do to our health care system what he helped do to our banking system with de-regulation and removing the protections that we rely on. The gamble he wants to take with his risky scheme could force 20 million people out of their current health care, and put the 156 million people who already have employer based health insurance at risk.
"Barack Obama's health care plan is based on commonsense ideas, it builds on the current employer-based system and uses existing providers, doctors and plans. That means that you get to make health care decisions with the doctor you choose.
"Under Senator Obama's plan, if you like your current health insurance, nothing changes, except that your costs will go down by as much as $2,500 per year.
"If you don't like your health insurance, or you don't have any health any insurance, then you will have a choice of new, affordable health insurance options.
"We need a president who will make health care more affordable and more accessible for all Americans, and Barack Obama will be that president."
For an audio version of the statement click HERE.
