By MIKE GLOVER
Associated Press
August 8, 2007
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson on Tuesday called for universal health care, offering a plan that would expand preventive coverage to help offset a package costing more than $100 billion.
The New Mexico governor said he could provide coverage to the 45 million uninsured without raising taxes. Instead, Richardson said preventive care would save the nation billions of dollars and additional money could be diverted from spending on the Iraq war.
''Universal health care is not only a moral imperative, it is also an economic imperative,'' said Richardson.
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