WASHINGTON -- President Bush looks at medical liability reform and healthcare in a series of campaign stops in Pennsylvania Thursday, with foreign affairs likely to come up.
Healthcare is the topic of the day in Pennsylvania, with Bush at Downington, west of Philadelphia and Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of Democratic Party candidate Sen. John Kerry, also is campaigning in her home state. Her discussion with women in Bucks County, just north of Philadelphia, is on healthcare and prescription drug prices, the Kerry campaign said in a release.
Bush claims John Kerry's healthcare plans mark an attempt to "federalize" U.S. health coverage. Kerry has countered that people deserve the same choices members of Congress have in their healthcare coverage and that no more people would be covered by government plans than are currently.
According to the Bush campaign Web site, the president is looking to battle "the root causes of rising healthcare costs, rather than shifting the costs to taxpayers or forcing Americans into an inflexible, one-size-fits-all bureaucratic system."
