Friday, February 06, 2004

Kucinich said he would "take the for-profit out of health care" by establishing a government-run system. About a quarter of the $1.6 trillion spent on health care each year goes to corporate profits, executive salaries, marketing and other elements of the profit system, he said.

"If we put all of that money into health care for all of the American people, we would suddenly relieve hundreds of millions of Americans of the threat of being driven into poverty by a health care system that is predatory, and in which people can't afford to be sick," he said to loud cheers.

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