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In reply to the discussion: Guess what? [View all]sheshe2
(83,785 posts)68. Well, I have watched her for years...
I was alive during the Clinton years and paying attention. Were You?
Clinton health care plan of 1993
The Clinton health plan required each US citizen and permanent resident alien to become enrolled in a qualified health plan and forbade their disenrollment until covered by another plan. It listed minimum coverages and maximum annual out-of-pocket expenses for each plan. It proposed the establishment of corporate "regional alliances" of health providers to be subject to a fee-for-service schedule. People below a certain set income level were to pay nothing. The act listed funding to be sent to the states for the administration of this plan, beginning at $13.5 billion in 1993 and reaching $38.3 billion in 2003.
Once in office, President Clinton quickly set up the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, headed by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, to come up with a comprehensive plan to provide universal health care for all Americans, which was to be a cornerstone of the administration's first-term agenda. Clinton delivered a major health care speech to a joint session of Congress on September 22, 1993.[1] In that speech, Clinton explained the problem as follows:
Millions of Americans are just a pink slip away from losing their health insurance, and one serious illness away from losing all their savings. Millions more are locked into the jobs they have now just because they or someone in their family has once been sick and they have what is called the preexisting condition. And on any given day, over 37 million Americansmost of them working people and their little childrenhave no health insurance at all. And in spite of all this, our medical bills are growing at over twice the rate of inflation, and the United States spends over a third more of its income on health care than any other nation on Earth.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's leading role in this project was unprecedented for a presidential spouse.[2][3] This unusual decision by President Clinton to put his wife in charge of the project has been attributed to several factors, such as the President's desire to emphasize his personal commitment to the enterprise.[3]
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Once in office, President Clinton quickly set up the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, headed by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, to come up with a comprehensive plan to provide universal health care for all Americans, which was to be a cornerstone of the administration's first-term agenda. Clinton delivered a major health care speech to a joint session of Congress on September 22, 1993.[1] In that speech, Clinton explained the problem as follows:
Millions of Americans are just a pink slip away from losing their health insurance, and one serious illness away from losing all their savings. Millions more are locked into the jobs they have now just because they or someone in their family has once been sick and they have what is called the preexisting condition. And on any given day, over 37 million Americansmost of them working people and their little childrenhave no health insurance at all. And in spite of all this, our medical bills are growing at over twice the rate of inflation, and the United States spends over a third more of its income on health care than any other nation on Earth.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's leading role in this project was unprecedented for a presidential spouse.[2][3] This unusual decision by President Clinton to put his wife in charge of the project has been attributed to several factors, such as the President's desire to emphasize his personal commitment to the enterprise.[3]
Read More http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_1993
Then this~
Hillary Clinton On Gay Rights Abroad: Secretary Of State Delivers Historic LGBT Speech In Geneva (VIDEO, FULL TEXT)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/06/hillary-clinton-gay-rights-speech-geneva_n_1132392.html
I didn't just fall of the turnip truck. I have been watching for years. She just wasn't for me in 2008, Obama was.
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Remember before all of this, Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton HATED each other, right?
freshwest
Apr 2015
#1
It is wonderful that politicians now feel the environment is safe enough for them to evolve.
Bonobo
Apr 2015
#7
Because I respected the WOMAN in 2013? SHE WAS OUR SOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How low can you go.
sheshe2
Apr 2015
#108
on some level,,, you gotta know you do not get to decide if it is a good decision,
seabeyond
Apr 2015
#46
i ma so tired of this. these same people telling me how insignificant i am. screw 'em. i think we
seabeyond
Apr 2015
#114
I posted these pictures on another thread in response to the "embracing Kissinger" photo
NBachers
Apr 2015
#11
I respect your opinion, but think you are wrong to let a bunch of idiots on a message board
davidpdx
Apr 2015
#12
I think it IS worth mentioning because once she is elected it will be TOO LATE
davidpdx
Apr 2015
#23
So many points in which to praise Hillary. Some wants to drive a wedge between
Thinkingabout
Apr 2015
#38
It is pointless arguing with some here and I will only end up blowing up and getting a hide.
hrmjustin
Apr 2015
#76
Shocking! Wonder of wonders you came around to supporting who you already supported
TheKentuckian
Apr 2015
#63
No, I'm reporting it. A radical regressive? No. Conservative? I've seen little that doesn't support
TheKentuckian
Apr 2015
#115