LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR: Now we turn our attention to Al Gore. His focus today, children's health. He is speaking now in Rio Bravo Park in Albuquerque. We're going to listen in.</s>VICE PRES. AL GORE (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'll be talking about the need for a patients' bill of rights to take the medical decisions away from the bean counters who work for the HMOs and the insurance companies and give the decisions back to the doctors and the nurses, and the health care professionals, the people who have the expertise to make those decisions.</s>WATERS: That's Al Gore. He's at Rio Bravo Park in Albuquerque talking about mainly health insurance for every child in America, one of the promises in his campaign. The vice president sounding a little horse today, speaking as he has been each day of the week on his focus, which is health care. Now under Mr. Gore's health care proposal, an existing child health program will be extended with $100 billion in new spending over 10 years. Mr. Gore would allow families who earn 250 percent of the federal poverty level to be eligible for a program of subsidized health insurance for children. We'll be hearing more about that. We'll be hearing about the Bush health care proposals. We'll be hearing it all in the days to come.
Vice Pres. Al Gore Delivers Remarks on Affordable Health Care for Children