Posted on 01/04/2006 5:07:36 PM PST by The Grim Freeper
I have it on very good authority that this past weekend, in Charleston, there was a panel/forum to discuss health care, including "Medical Breakthroughs Which Will Alter Our Lives", "Avoiding, Identifying, Reversing, and Surviving Heart Disease", and a four-hour forum, "Costs and Consequences of Health Care Reform Alternates." Bill Clinton attended a small portion of the four-hour forum, and Ann Lewis, Hillary's campaign manager, did, as well.
It is obvious to me that Hillary does, indeed, plan on running, and that she is determined to push a nationalized health care plan through.
I cant wait
read later
Health care... Whatever. It hasn't won them the house, the senate and it won't win the White House. Housing costs; there's a winning strategy. Because really, unless you're sick, health care doesn't make much of a difference, but when half your take home salary, or more, goes to pay for your home, you sit up and listen.
Plus a lot of parents would like to see their children leave home.
But, thankfully, liberals don't read here for good ideas.
You must really have a short attention span!
Why, oh why, am I so laughing, then?
Hillary will run on health care? Ain't that like Kerry's gonna run on his Vietnam War protests? Or that Jimmy Carter will run on his success in Iran? Or that Hillary's little boy, Billy, will run on opposing welfare reform?
Truly, I wish her all the health care reform in the world. She may push the issue into the campaign -- but nobody will trust her with it. Sorry, witch. You had your chance, and you blew it.
Smartest woman in America...
SNORT.
"Senator Clinton, do you support the full release of the Barrett Report?"
OMG...
HILLARY WILL FOCUS ON HEALTH CARE IN HER RUN FOR PRESIDENT
No surprise. She fails to grasp the point Mark Steyn has made so well in a recent essay (see the thread It’s the demography, stupid):
...in the typical election campaign in your advanced industrial democracy, the political platforms of at least one party in the United States and pretty much all parties in the rest of the west are largely about what one would call the secondary impulses of society—government health care, government day care (which Canada’s thinking of introducing), government paternity leave (which Britain’s just introduced). We’ve prioritized the secondary impulse over the primary ones: national defense, family, faith, and, most basic of all, reproductive activity—“Go forth and multiply,” because if you don’t you won’t be able to afford all those secondary-impulse issues, like cradle-to-grave welfare. Americans sometimes don’t understand how far gone most of the rest of the developed world is down this path: In the Canadian and most Continental cabinets, the defense ministry is somewhere an ambitious politician passes through on his way up to important jobs like the health department. I don’t think Don Rumsfeld would regard it as a promotion if he were moved to Health & Human Services.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is not worthy of being the first female president of these United States.
Yes you are correct. We don't have insurance of any kind and yeah it is hard to pay a mortgage. I worry more about the mortgage, well, untill one of us get sick. lol
Healthcare? That is so 1990.
It also cost the Dems the House and Senate in 1994....
Wasn't hillary in charge of something in Arkansas?
There is a healthcare crisis. But nationalizing it will only bring it to its kneees. But it must be addressed before it's too late.
I get this strong intuition that all our medical records will belong to Hillary in a very short time, if not already. I sense an enlarged sense of entitlement where access to the records of others are concerned here, to state the obvious.
She scares me.
One of my top 10 or 15 movies of all time is Tombstone. Val Kilmer was awesome...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.