Bradley plans to get rid of Medicaid and replace the public system with private vouchers, i.e., turn over health care most entirely to private insurance. That is to the right of anything Richard Nixon would have done and spells disaster for some populations - Physicians for National Health care Program has being trying to get the word out on this aspect of the "socialist" Bradley and I have too from the perspective of PWDs. I may have to vote against Bradley to say I have at least contributed to stopping this awful "solution" he has come up with for health care, even though I don't want to vote at all.
Marta
Michael Pollak wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > What's an "avowed socialist" doing campaigning for Bill Bradley?
>
> He's a DSA socialist and has been since back when they were DSOC -- the
> Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee [of the Democratic Party]. One
> can surely disagree with their strategy of pulling the Democrats to the
> left (and I know you do quite vehemently) but given his organizational
> affiliation there's no contradiction at all between his label and his
> actions. He thinks Bradley is the left-most candidate (and the best on
> race), and he hopes that by supporting him, he can influence him
> afterwards. And to be fair, most of what looks so silly in the Times
> article would have sounded just fine on the undergraduate stump, which is
> where it was taking place.
>
> Michael
>
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