{"id":294164,"date":"2010-02-08T17:15:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T22:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76105"},"modified":"2010-02-08T17:15:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T22:15:11","slug":"kucinich-it%e2%80%99s-high-time-for-single-payer-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/294164","title":{"rendered":"Kucinich: It\u2019s High Time for Single-Payer Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Republican leaders are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2010\/02\/08\/politics\/politicalhotsheet\/entry6186856.shtml\" >urging<\/a> President Obama to scrap the Democrats&#8217; health care reform legislation and start the process from scratch, they&#8217;ve found an unlikely ally in Rep. Dennis Kucinich. The Ohio Democrat &#8212; a perennial presidential candidate &#8212; wants President Obama to consider government-sponsored, single-payer health coverage in lieu of the insurance industry-based reforms being proposed by Democratic leaders.<span id=\"more-76105\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kucinich.house.gov\/UploadedFiles\/Medicare_for_All_Ltr_to_Obama.pdf\" >a letter<\/a> to Obama today, Kucinich argues that single payer is &#8220;the only health care [system] that has consistently proven to address each of the criteria you have outlined for a satisfactory heath care plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As you know, Medicare for All increases quality, provides coverage for everyone, and controls costs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Ohio liberal is urging Obama to include a single-payer advocate as part of the bipartisan health reform summit the White House will host on Feb. 25. Indeed, Kucinich offered himself to be that advocate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Republican leaders are urging President Obama to scrap the Democrats&#8217; health care reform legislation and start the process from scratch, they&#8217;ve found an unlikely ally in Rep. Dennis Kucinich. The Ohio Democrat &#8212; a perennial presidential candidate &#8212; wants President Obama to consider government-sponsored, single-payer health coverage in lieu of the insurance industry-based reforms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}