The Nation: Clinton's Prescription for Another Heath Care Reform Failure

The Nation

Posted 09/18/2007 @ 06:24am
Clinton's Prescription for Another Heath Care Reform Failure
John Nichols


Would someone please ask Hillary Clinton to stop coming up with health care "reform" plans that are less attractive than the dysfunctional system she proposes to replace?

The former first lady, who snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the 1990s by responding to the demand for a sane and humane system to deliver affordable medical care to all Americans with a plan to drown the ailing in a bureaucracy designed to augment the profits of the nation's largest insurance companies, is back with an equally heavy-handed and unappealing "reform" proposal.

The senator from New York who has emerged as the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination -- based, in no small part, on romantic misrecollections of her last foray into the nation's seemingly-endless health-care debate -- wants to solve the crisis of the uninsured and the under-insured by requiring every American to obtain coverage.

Of course, the ridiculous Mitt Romney decries the Clinton campaign proposal as ``European-style socialized medicine."

But Romney knows so little about health care that he cannot even pick a smart site for a press conference on the issue -- he derided the Clinton plan in front of St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, home of the Rudolph W. Giuliani Trauma Center that is named for his chief rival in the Republican nomination race.

The reality is that the Clinton plan is about as socialistic as a Ronald Reagan corporate tax cut.

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she will not rest until they get the profits they deserve.

Just like Billy came thru for the telecommunications companies.

...I thought it was interesting.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/sickos-for-sale/candidates/

Fortunately, the Clintons have never been observed doing stuff for cash.

That's like lumping contributions from the cops and the robbers in the same category.

Its worth every penny.

or just make snide remarks like some middle school kid?

You'll have to think of another dismissive insult to cover for Hillary next time.

but then neither is toilet paper....

Try going poop without toilet paper.

mandatory, universal INSURANCE is all we're gonna get. Ditto that for Big Pharma and Big Medicine. HRC is bought and paid-for, and just like any other "asset" is simply delivering on their investment for them. Period.

We aren't even in the equasion as long as corporations are.

TC

sung to that old movie theater break tune