When Bill and Hillary Clinton gambled big

CNN ^ | 10/28/2021 | Julian Zelizer

[ChicagoConservative27]

(CNN)For a political party, controlling the White House and Congress isn't the picnic it's made out to be. Politicians who find themselves in this treasured position enter office with grand ambitions, even if they control only slim majorities in Congress.

Those ambitions often run into a harsh reality, as the frustrating last few months for the Democrats demonstrate. President Joe Biden has attempted to maneuver a massive domestic agenda through the Democratic Congress, but now heads off to Europe to attend the G20 and COP26 fearing that he might end up with nothing. The political risks are immense. Other Democratic presidents have learned the perils of failing to move their marquee policies through a Congress controlled by their own party. In 1993, President Bill Clinton gambled big by making health care reform a top priority. Democrats had 57 seats in the Senate and 267 seats in the House -- larger majorities than Biden's Democrats have today.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Different country in 1994.

[PGR88]

According to the administration, costs would be controlled; coverage would become universal. States would establish regional health care alliances in which insurers would be required to sell their coverage. The alliances, predecessors of President Barack Obama's health care exchanges, would encourage managed competition, thereby reducing the cost of premiums. A National Health Care Board would monitor the quality of health care coverage.

its the same garbage that was served up under Obama and snuck through Congress in the middle of the night.

[nascarnation]

Clinton had a 43% plurality win.
SlowJoe had a 51% fake win.

Clinton spent all his time hustling chicks.
Joe spends all his time snoozing at his beach house.

[libertylover]

Hillary Clinton headed the task force that devised the plan

It's CNN, so I guess they didn't notice the problem. Under her plan she, I mean the government, would decide which specialties a medical student would go into. The student may have been able to submit a "dream sheet" but ultimately the government would decide. (Veterans know about "dream sheets").

Moreover, all doctors would've become government employees and be paid only a small salary per year.

[BenLurkin]

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/05/05/hubbell.tapes/tapes.html