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TechnographBlagojevich's tax plan supports health care
Big corporations take hit for state health, education
By Patrick Wade and Pamela Nisivaco
Posted: 4/6/07 Section: News
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Blagojevich also visited Christie Clinic in Champaign on Thursday afternoon and focused his comments on the benefits the state's health care system will gain under the plan.
"This will be the best health care plan in the country," Blagojevich said.
When the governor was sworn into office in 2003, 43 million Americans were without health care.
Since then, that number has risen to 46 million, he said.
During that same time period, 565,000 more Illinois residents have obtained health care, he said.
Blagojevich said his proposed plan will also allow people over the age of 20 the option of remaining on their parents' insurance policy until the age of 29.
The philosophy behind expanding health care comes from a lesson he learned in Sunday school, he said.
People who have been blessed with many opportunities and are able to give themselves health care should work to follow the golden rule of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
"I believe everyone has a God-given right to get health care," he said. "This is a moral imperative. This is literally a matter of life and death."
Blagojevich said that you cannot please everyone with a tax plan and politicians have to make a choice somewhere down the line to get anything done.
"This is a fight we're going to win," Blagojevich said. "And we're not going to give up until we get this done."
"This will be the best health care plan in the country," Blagojevich said.
When the governor was sworn into office in 2003, 43 million Americans were without health care.
Since then, that number has risen to 46 million, he said.
During that same time period, 565,000 more Illinois residents have obtained health care, he said.
Blagojevich said his proposed plan will also allow people over the age of 20 the option of remaining on their parents' insurance policy until the age of 29.
The philosophy behind expanding health care comes from a lesson he learned in Sunday school, he said.
People who have been blessed with many opportunities and are able to give themselves health care should work to follow the golden rule of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
"I believe everyone has a God-given right to get health care," he said. "This is a moral imperative. This is literally a matter of life and death."
Blagojevich said that you cannot please everyone with a tax plan and politicians have to make a choice somewhere down the line to get anything done.
"This is a fight we're going to win," Blagojevich said. "And we're not going to give up until we get this done."
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Hank Rearden
posted 4/06/07 @ 8:13 AM CST
Since when did Stalin rise from the dead and become governor of Illinois?
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