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- From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
- Subject: unc health care study
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 03:09:04 GMT
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- Here is a press release from the Clinton/Gore Campaign.
-
- Clinton Campaign Statement on University of North Carolina Health
- Care Study
- To: National Desk, Political Writer
- Contact: Avis LaVelle of the Clinton/Gore Campaign, 501-399-3840
-
- LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug. 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Statement of George
- Stephanopoulos, Clinton/Gore communications director, on a health
- care study released by University of North Carolina:
-
- "This study has one simple conclusion: Bill Clinton's health plan
- would control costs and create 2.2 million more jobs than George
- Bush's approach.
- "Bill Clinton supports comprehensive health care reform that
- controls costs; George Bush wants to protect the insurance companies
- and stick the elderly with the bill. George Bush's hatchet plan for
- Medicare benefits and do-nothing cost control scheme would increase
- costs for families, but protect profits for insurance and
- pharmaceutical companies. The study released today shows just how
- costly the Bush approach is.
- "What would happen under George Bush's assault on Medicare and
- Medicaid? According to the University of North Carolina study, the
- Bush Plan would result in:
- -- 2.2 million jobs lost as health care costs continue to spiral
- out of control;
- -- Health costs consuming 12 percent of the income of elderly
- Americans by 1997; and
- -- 60 million uninsured Americans by 1997.
- "We need comprehensive reform, not piecemeal cuts. The Clinton
- Health Care Plan offers an approach that will control costs
- throughout the health system and increase access and affordability.
- The Bush scheme will cost jobs; comprehensive reform will create
- them, as health costs get under control to the benefit of workers and
- businesses alike."
- ------
- NOTE: The study was conducted by Dr. Kenneth E. Thorpe, associate
- professor of health policy and administration at the University of
- North Carolina-Chapel Hill, School of Public Health. For copies of
- the study contact UNC News Services at 919-962-2091. Thorpe is
- available today for interviews. Call him at 919-966-7375 (work) or
- 919-408-0168 (home).
- Thorpe, who has testified before congressional committees about
- several national health-care proposals, specializes in national
- health insurance, financing health care and other public and private
- health care cost issues.
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