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Kucinich Is Lone Candidate For a Single-Payer System


 

And he's not concerned a universal coverage plan would strain the system by having people who previously had no health insurance start coming in for lots of services.

“When I was a city councilman in Cleveland, I had a proposal I thought would do a lot to protect the environment and move people around our community efficiently. I proposed free [public] transit. And the people who attacked the idea … said, 'My God! If we have free transit, everyone's going to be riding the bus!' Exactly. That's what we want. You want people to use the health care system, so that they're healthy.”

'I'm talking about a plan where everyone's covered, [and it] covers everything.' REP. KUCINICH

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