NU Online News Service, Jan. 16, 2004, 11:24 a.m. EST – President Bush promoted his health insurance and retirement proposals briefly Thursday during a campaign appearance in New Orleans.[@@]
“We want people owning and managing their own health care accounts and their own retirement accounts,” Bush said at a Bush-Cheney fund-raiser at the National D-Day Museum, according to a transcript of his remarks released by the White House.
Bush included the reference to the health and retirement proposals in comments about the general importance of promoting an “ownership society in America.”