Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Capitol Hill in 1994 in an effort to lobby support for a universal health
care plan for which she was sharply criticized.
Posted on 06/10/2006 12:02:38 PM PDT by Pharmboy
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Capitol Hill in 1994 in an effort to lobby support for a universal health
care plan for which she was sharply criticized.
WASHINGTON, June 9 — No policy issue has bedeviled Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton more than health care. Ever since the collapse of her proposal for universal coverage in 1994, critics have used the issue as prime evidence in their case that she is, at heart, a big-government liberal with a zeal for social engineering.
But now, as Mrs. Clinton heads into her re-election campaign and a possible bid for the presidency, she is trying to recast the political disaster of 1994 as something else: as a badge of honor, as a symbol of lessons learned and, perhaps most significant, as invaluable preparation for dealing with the problems in the health care system today.
"A lot of people know that I was involved in health care back in '93 and '94, and I still have the scars to show for it," Mrs. Clinton says in a new biographical film that she is showing on the campaign trail. After raising the topic in a recent speech, she added, "But it's worth wading into again — and we're going to have to."
Mrs. Clinton's approach to health care is strikingly different this time around, a measure of her evolution from an impatient agent of change to a cautious senator — and potential presidential contender — keenly attuned to the political center.
In 1994, she and President Bill Clinton insisted that anything short of universal coverage was unacceptable and proposed a vast overhaul of the health care system to provide it: a 1,342-page plan that drew withering fire from an array of interest groups and died in a Democratic Congress.
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Bring it on hag. There goes that political tin-ear of hers.
How can she be the "smartest woman in the world" yet be so absolutely dense?
Health care will be a big issue in 2008. Medicare is going broke, Medicaid is breaking the backs of the states, and the number of uninsured approaches 50 million. Couple that with medical costs rising faster than inflation and you have a real political issue.
"Wounds salved"? No way. This woman has a festering wound instead of a soul.
The first step to universal health care is to get rid of ambulance chasers like John Edwards who the left seems to never find fault with. It`s OK for pigs like that to leech millions off of health care, but screw doctors who have to pay upwards of a quarter mill a year in insurance.
1) Times editors NEVER leave the Manhattan/Hamptons/Nantucket axis, and never hear "new" ideas
2) Times editors are propagandists who lack even the primitive skills of the Soviets.
1) Medical Savings Accounts
2) Catastrophic insurance and pay your way for outpatient care
A pig with lipstick putting lipstick on a pig.
Let's see if she repeats herself:
"I can't be responsible for every undercapitalized small business in the country."
Like Mark Simone of WABC says; "Name one thing Hillary has ever done for anybody." He actually had a guy call up his show a few months ago who could not stop praising the beast, and Mark asked that very question. First asked him to name 4, then 3 then ANYTHING the Beast has ever done and this guy could not, then Simone told him he would give him a year to get back to him when he finds something.
Hillary is the Paris Hilton of the Political world without the looks. Everyone kisses her arse yet nobody can name what she has done.
I just finished a minscule job that the USDA was involved in. They spent 2 1/2 years, numerous agent and engineers, multiple unworkable blueprints that had to be redrawn, incomplete or innacurate specifications. The most unintelligent, educated people I've ever seen in my life. Spend ten minutes explaining any answer to the simplest question.
All to make water run downhill.(it already was doing so) Tens of thousands of dollars to fix what could have been fixed for $1000. Not counting the man hours they provided themselves.
You think I want the Gubmint involved any more in my healthcare?
Interesting! Many people here were screaming bloody murder because Pres. Bush got his Medicare prescription policy passed. Think about this: Every person in this country is automatically enrolled in Medicare when they turn 65, WHETHER THEY WANT IT OR NOT. And the money to be forceably enrolled in Medicare is taken out of their SS payments every month. But, it never helped with the enormous prescription bills. And that left Hitlery in a good position to push her universal health care.
Once again, Pres. Bush made the world safer from Hitllery.
Shhhhhhh...let's don't tell her that just associating her name with "health care" is NOT a good campaign strategy.
The slime one found out Ann Coulter was wayyyyyy to classy for her to fire on.....so now she's back to her 'safe' mode.....
Bring on some more Ann....we need to bring the slime one out in the open!!!
Can anyone stand to hear her monotoned voice? Lately Billy-Carter-Clinton has been making speeches on her behalf. It's always others that are speaking for her. Her downfall will be that NO ONE can take listening to her speeches. It's like fingernails on a chalk board.
On the one hand, I hope she gets the Democrat nomination in 2008, because it means an almost certain win for whoever gets the Republican nomination.
On the other hand, what if she won? Could our nation survive?
I dare you to deny she's done a yoeman's job of promoting the gay... and especially... lesbian agenda. ;)
Regards, Ivan
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