What happend to the 'hot button' issue of the 2004 presidential debates? Specifically health care.?

Question

has anything changed? would kerry have kept his promises?

Answer 1

The new DNC platform is bash Bush...

Good question, by the way...

Answer 2

Then there was September 11.....and the whole world changed for us....I would like to think that John Kerry and John Edwards would have kept their promises...I hope that either one or both run again and more people get off their behinds and VOTE!!!

Answer 3

The same thing that happened when Clinton was running for office nothing, and in his second term he also ran on the health care cause, and in his second term also nothing happened.Clinton didn't keep his promise. I remember Clinton and Hillary speaking on that subject together, in an interview and they said they were going to do something about health care, well nothing has changed since Clinton.

Answer 4

For some reason, I believe that Kerry would've have fulfilled his promise about health care... to an extent.
But it wouldn't have mattered, there are more Bush-supporters in the electoral committee. Kerry never would've gotten in.

We all know the real purpose of the whole campaign; to keep our forces in the Middle East.

Answer 5

Who was suppose to pay for all this health care?

Note the following from that leftist rag, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Opinion section:

It's the arithmetic that ought to get our attention. Consider a few bullet points from a long-term scenario modeled by the Government Accountability Office:


By 2024, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and net interest consume all revenues; the deficit hits 10 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).


By 2025, net interest on our current debt costs more than Medicare; debt held by the public exceeds 100 percent of GDP.


Ten years later, the net interest exceeds Medicare and Medicaid; debt held by the public equals 200 percent of GDP.


By 2037, the federal deficit reaches 20.5 percent of GDP, exceeding the size of today's entire federal budget.


By 2046, net interest on federal debt nears 22 percent of GDP and exceeds the size of today's entire federal budget;


In 2049, "GAO model blows up."

The model blows up because it exceeds the most dire projections.

Answer 6

He may have kept it before he didn't. His band of brothers would have probably wanted to take a poll and throw someone else's bandages over the fence.

Answer 7

No politicians keep their promises, I think its just part of the process, get in office and completely forget what got you there.

Answer 8

the hot button issue will be immigration, nothing will be done about it and they will soon forget that too.

Answer 9

its being saved for when Hillary runs in 08