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• 41 Million people in America are without health care
• Health care premiums jumped 41 percent from 2000 to 2003
• Health care premiums rose 13.9 percent last year while earnings rose only 3.1 perecent
• Spending on prescription drugs doubled since 1998.

Medicare Prescription Drug Cost Scandal

The Bush Administration Deliberately Withheld Real Cost Of Medicare Prescription Drug Program.

 Bush Betrays Seniors, Protects Contributors

Many seniors may think this legislation will pay for their prescription drugs but will be surprised to find out they still have to pay a lot, in many cases most of the costs.

Bush's Medicare Gift to the Drug Industry

The Medicare Drug plan was written by the Drug Companies for their benefit, not the benefit of Seniors who have been waiting for some kind of drug benefit to be included in Medicare.


National Democratic Party Platform 2000

Accessible, Affordable, Quality Health Care

For fifty years, the Democratic Party has been engaged in a battle to provide the kind of health care a great nation owes its people. We reaffirm our commitment to take concrete, specific, realistic steps to move toward the day when every American has affordable health coverage. And we will not rest until the job is done.



California Democrats believe that all persons should have unrestricted access to health care. We oppose all discrimination in access to health care coverage based upon age, ability to pay, disability, ethnicity, gender, genetic characteristics, geographical location, pre-existing conditions, religion, residency requirements, and sexual orientation or gender identity. We believe that health care issues should be determined by individual need, not by profit margins. We steadfastly oppose the movement to privatize Medi-Cal and Medicare.

 

 




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