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Obama Says It Is Time for Universal Health Care

January 25, 2007 1:57 PM

ABC News' Tahman Bradley Reports: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illlin., wants every American to have health insurance, and said today that that goal should be a dominant issue in the 2008 election.

"In the 2008 presidential and congressional campaigns all across the country, affordable, universal healthcare for every single American must not be a question of whether, it must be a question of how," Obama said in a speech before the Families USA conference.

Obama, who plans to officially launch his bid for president next month, also offered a timeframe for his goal saying that he is "determined that by the end of the first term of the next president, we should have universal healthcare in this country."

The Senator said he is working to develop his own plan and rejected President Bush's healthcare proposal calling it "halfway measure." "The President's latest proposal that does little to bring down cost or guarantee coverage falls into that category," Obama said.

Certainly not a newcomer to the national healthcare debate, one of Obama's likely presidential rival Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., is expected to unveil her new plan to cover every American soon.

Democratic presidential candidates former Sen. John Edwards, D-NC., and Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio., have said they also back universal healthcare.

And on the Republican side, 2008 presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, while serving as governor of Massachusetts signed law making his state the first in the nation to offer a plan to cover all its citizens.

January 25, 2007 in Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (0)

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