Ralph Nader in The Associated Press
On Health Care:
Medicare prescriptions covered under universal health care
Q: Would elderly people with low incomes get all the prescription drugs they need at no cost to them under your proposals?A: Yes, under a system of universal health care. Price restraints should be placed on all drugs especially developed with
taxpayer money, and multiple licenses should be issued for those drugs in order to stimulate competition and bring prices down. The Medicare authorities should negotiate lower drug prices, as the V.A. and the Pentagon are already doing.
Source: Associated Press
Sep 8, 2000
On Health Care:
Price restraints on drugs; limit profiteering
The pharmaceutical industry is suffering from a malaise where corporate profits are more highly valued than people’s health. Price restraints should be placed on all drugs especially developed with taxpayer money,
and multiple licenses should be issued for those drugs in order to stimulate competition and bring prices down. In addition, the government should react to corporate profiteering by developing needed drugs itself.
Source: Associated Press
Sep 8, 2000
On Homeland Security:
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is discriminatory against gays
Q: Do you support the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military? A: No I do not. The current system is discriminatory against homosexuals who wish to serve their country. All members of our society should have equal rights and
responsibilities. Gays have served in all military branches in numerous foreign countries and, truth be told, have given their lives serving in the U.S. armed services throughout American history.“
Source: Associated Press
Sep 6, 2000
On Principles & Values:
Plans to be on 50 ballots & make a 4-party race
Consumer advocate and Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader predicted Monday that he will qualify for the November ballot in all 50 states. Nader said his party is “growing quite readily” as an alternative to the Democratic and Republican
parties - “which is really one party with two heads wearing make-up.” Nader continued, “We’re going to be on every state’s ballot. This is going to be a four-party race in November.” Nader said he plans to visit all 50 states.
Source: Associated Press
Mar 13, 2000
On Principles & Values:
Opposes concentration of power & monied interests
The progressive Green Party, founded in 1996, shares Thomas Jefferson’s and James Madison’s view of government as “a public check against the excesses of monied interests,” Nader said. The abolitionist, trade union, environmental and
consumer movements all have targeted the same evil -- “excessive concentration of power and wealth,” he said. Nader said too many working Americans have been left behind in the booming economy.
Source: Associated Press
Mar 13, 2000
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