Another Step in the Hillary Health Care Program

[William769]

Hillary Clinton introduced legislation in the Senate today to improve the quality of health care, a precursor to the proposal she is expected to make in the coming weeks as part of her slow roll-out of a universal health care plan.

Today's proposal again emphasizes Clinton's focus on the cost of health care, which, politically speaking, has the potential to be at least as important in a general election than the issue of the 45 million or so Americans without insurance. (She is expected to call for universal health care coverage in a subsequent, separate roll-out.)

http://www.observer.com/2007/hillarys-health-care-preview

BTW, THIS IS NOT A POLL.

[ElizabethDC]

1. Excellent!

I notice you post non-polls all the time - but they tend to sink to the bottom because people only reply to the polls!

[William769]

2. Yep they sink.

Probably because they can't argue with them.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

3. Another (positive) baby step. Let's see what her health coverage plan will look like

Let's hope she is for universal coverage. Supposedly it will be universal, but we heard the same thing from Obama too before the actual plan was presented.

==just when and how she should do that has been a source of debate among Mrs. Clinton’s campaign staff and advisors, who are worried not only about their candidate’s complicated history with the issue, but about being outflanked by the health plans of her rivals.

That all changed last week, when Mrs. Clinton’s closest rival, Barack Obama, presented his plan.

Mr. Obama’s proposal, in the form of his much-anticipated first major policy address, had much to recommend it to liberal proponents of health-care reform. But unlike the plan unveiled by John Edwards—and the one Mrs. Clinton is expected to present some time in the coming weeks—it lacked one thing: a cut-and-dry requirement that all Americans have health insurance.

Suddenly, Mrs. Clinton had an opening. “She does have an opportunity now to really distinguish herself,” said Dr. Irwin Redlener, a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and an advisor to Mrs. Clinton on health-care policy. “It’s going to be universal. I don’t know how the mandates will be expressed, but there will be absolutely no ambiguity about the universality.”==

http://www.observer.com/2007/stat-clinton-readies-scalpel-obamacare