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brooklynite

(94,591 posts)
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 05:31 PM Apr 2015

Clinton vows to defend Obamacare and calls for equal pay for women [View all]

Source: The Guardian

Hillary Clinton signaled at a campaign event on Wednesday that she was ready to stake her White House hopes on a defense of Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law, potentially putting her on a collision course with Republican candidates who have said they would seek to repeal the law as one of their first acts in the Oval Office.

“I am committed to trying to build on what works in the Affordable Care Act,” Clinton said at a meeting with small-business owners during an event at a fruit distributor outside Des Moines, Iowa. “Because 16 million people now have insurance who didn’t have it.”

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She heaped paragraphs of praise on Equal Pay day (the campaign day highlighting attempts to achieve salary parity for women), called for immigration reform and singled out healthcare as one piece of the Obama legacy worth protecting.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/15/hillary-clinton-iowa-election-2016

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anyone see the tea party guy OKNancy Apr 2015 #1
And, he has a microphone.. Cha Apr 2015 #5
Wow! What a turn around there. Welcome back to the human race, sir! n/t freshwest Apr 2015 #8
Mahalo Obamacare! Cha Apr 2015 #10
Hey, GF! From my post below: freshwest Apr 2015 #11
I love that Message.. who started that, fresh!? Cha Apr 2015 #12
My tea party sis loves the ACA, women and gay rights, so she's voting for Hillary! freshwest Apr 2015 #6
Lovely! Cha Apr 2015 #13
Ye-es! shenmue Apr 2015 #2
endorse equal pay. wow. edgy. controversial. and she's impotent to affect it. elehhhhna Apr 2015 #3
Yes. DURHAM D Apr 2015 #9
All women should get pay equal to Hillary's. Larry Engels Apr 2015 #15
And I should be paid as much as professional ball players. Thinkingabout Apr 2015 #27
Exactly! Larry Engels Apr 2015 #30
abc paid Chelsea 600k for NOTHing elehhhhna Apr 2015 #28
Did you do the hiring? Thinkingabout Apr 2015 #31
lolwut? elehhhhna Apr 2015 #32
Indeed I agree with you DrKZ Apr 2015 #33
Seems like reading tea leaves to me? Cosmic Kitten Apr 2015 #4
ACA is virtually equivalent to the one Hillary wanted in 1993. Larry Engels Apr 2015 #16
I worked for Columbia Healthcare in 1993...Rick Scott's hospitals Cosmic Kitten Apr 2015 #19
I don't care who you "worked for." Larry Engels Apr 2015 #20
Yes, This Commitment RobinA Apr 2015 #17
Indeed! It is a very vague statement Cosmic Kitten Apr 2015 #18
I can probably take a good guess that the parts that don't work don't benefit insurance companies DrKZ Apr 2015 #34
I thought Heritage/Gingrinch/Romney/Obamacare was going to turn into healthcare! Doctor_J Apr 2015 #7
Equal pay for women was signed into law in 1963. former9thward Apr 2015 #14
This message was self-deleted by its author CreekDog Apr 2015 #21
she did know that, it was you that was ignorant of the facts CreekDog Apr 2015 #22
Your original reply was so much more entertaining. former9thward Apr 2015 #23
apparently you can't answer why you accused her of being ignorant CreekDog Apr 2015 #24
"we" former9thward Apr 2015 #25
the reason you won't respond is that you have no response CreekDog Apr 2015 #26
Not stalking you, but when I read threads, if someone is casting aspersions on Dems CreekDog Apr 2015 #29
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