But these days, Hillary Clinton isn't running away from the 1994 failure of her health care plan. She's wearing it as a badge of honor - joking that she's got "the scars to show for it. "We set the groundwork in place, so that now, people are saying, 'boy, we wish we had done that back then,'" she told an audience at a health care forum in Carson City, Nev.The long told tale, as seen above, is that the health care plan that was defeated in 1994 was Hillary's baby, start to finish. But now we have a strange story (The Hillarycare Mythology) just published in the liberal magazine The American Prospect by Paul Starr (a "White House senior health policy advisor at the time") that purports to set the story straight on that particular heath care plan debacle. He claims that Hillarycare I was actually Billcare I - it was her husband's plan all along. Hillary was there just as a salesperson for the plan, and when it courageously failed, fell on the sword to protect her beloved husband.
"It's really quite remarkable how Mrs. Clinton is turning the health care debacle of 1994 into an asset," said Norman Ornstein, a political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute. "Hillary Clinton has two great things going for her on this issue. The first is, she knows it cold. The second is that she can say, 'I was for dramatic reform before any of the rest of you.'"
Someone on the Left doesn't have their story straight. Was Hillary a wronged genius, or was she a convenient fall guy? Pretty soon this Paul Starr character will be found attempting to commit suicide on an Amtrak train somewhere.
Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. I work construction Doctors are biulding multi million $ homes filled with all the latest super fad items Insurance agents are biulding multi hundred thousand $ homes with several new cars of the highest quality and price you wonder where your premiums are going it is going to the new super rich doctors who can charge any thing they want to and don't have to set a price first you get a big suprise when you find out what you just got charged for an asprin
fred at 6:37PM on Sep 17th 2007
2. shoot your mouths off if you would.my kid had a fever and i got a $ 7.000.00 bill,and I have insurance .I just could not afford to insure him.
bj at 7:13PM on Sep 17th 2007
3. Hillary Clinton was a failure with Health Care then and is a failure now!!!
Keep away the Clinton's from the White House.
They are an unethical bunch!!!
We need to bring back honesty, ethics, morals, respect and dignity to our government.
We need an administration that will restore trust in America!
Sam at 7:55PM on Sep 17th 2007
4. Perhaps health care wouldnt be so ridiculously high is we didnt have to treat all the illegal aliens. Who do you think pays for that???
Tag Nomelli at 8:49PM on Sep 17th 2007
5. "HILLARYCARE".... SOUNDS LIKE A HILLBILLY GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED PLAN TO ME! IT WAS A BAD IDEA THEN ITS A BAD IDEA NOW. KEEP BIG GOVERNMENT CONTROL OUT OF MY PERSONAL DECISIONS.
MARLA at 8:13PM on Sep 17th 2007
6. I DONT WANT TO HEAR ABOUT OJ AGAIN... I DONT WANT TO HEAR ABOUT HILLARYCARE AGAIN... AND I CERTAINLY DONT WANT A CLINTON IN THE WHITE HOUSE AGAIN. JUST GO AWAY!!
KEITH at 8:17PM on Sep 17th 2007
7. Hillary is of a type of communist.She thonks everyone should be on the dame ecomomics level .God help us if she gets elected.I am moving to the Bahamas.
Linda Beranek at 10:08PM on Sep 17th 2007
8. Solutions to healthcare. Part 1
1-Get rid of the current insurance system. It does NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for the public good. Power back to doctors. Have accredited medical societies to administer the payments to doctors and insure the patients.
2-Get rid of current non-MD hospital administrators. They are part of the problem too.
3-Get rid of all the moronic paperwork that consumes > 50% of MDs' time and resources. Medicare is part of the problem here.
4-From the insurance profits, now re-distribute 30% to doctors and 70% to hospitals.
5-Mandatory for MDs to absorbe the uninsured patients (10-15% of the workload).
Make the math, it works. There will be more time for patients, like 40 years ago, when we could make them better in body and spirit. Problem solved. Hope somebody hears.
neurologycenter at 10:08PM on Sep 17th 2007
9. I THINK IF HILLARY WOULD BRING THE TROOPS OUT OF THE SAUDI DIRT AND CHANNEL THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY TO HEALTH CARE AND HOUSING.THEN PROBLEMS FOR SOME OF US WOULD CLEAR UP IN THIS COUNTRY.WHATS SO IMPORTANT ABOUT DYING OVER THERE FOR OIL AND BARLEY ABLE TO PAY YOUR MORTGAGE HERE AND STILL HAVE NO HEALTH CARE. SO IF THE TROOPS WIN AND WE HAVE NO HOMES AND HEALTH....WHAT HAVE WE ACCOMPLISHED AND FOR WHO, WHAT AND WHEN. WILL THERE BE A NEXT 100 YEARS WORTH FIGHTING FOR OVER HERE IF WE SPEND ALL OUR MONEY OVER THERE ON A WAR.
Jay at 7:11AM on Sep 18th 2007
10. Headline to watch for? "Paul Starr makes the Mesa List"? Would not be a 'surprise' thing at all. Lets hope the word "attempts" is as far as it gets. Do you really think the words "beloved husband" fits this not really a wife kind of woman? Her plan does nothing about high costs. It only makes it mandatory for both employers (and employees) to pay the costs. Employers will have to put that expence somewhere. Customers: higher pricing? or Employees: Lower wages? It doesn't fix anything as long as the prices remain so very high. There are reasons it hasn't been done in the 14 years of talking about it (Plus the supposed time she was alledged to be working on it): To much of that money gets put up for election run bids, Bill's And Hillary's etal. Its the same old merry-go-round!
Larry at 1:49AM on Sep 18th 2007
11. JAY, IVE NEVER HEARD SO MUCH CONFUSED DRIBBLE SINCE MISS SOUTH CAROLINA TRIED TO ANSWER A QUESTION ABOUT A MAP...YOUR THOUGHT PROCESS ON THE SUBJECT OF SOCIALIZED HEALTH CARE JUMPS AROUND AS MUCH AS HERS DID, MAKES ONE SAY... WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?
KERRY at 12:48PM on Sep 18th 2007
12. I have no problem with having a woman as a President but NOT Hillary. I have been studying all the Candidates and paying attention to all there issues and what they intend to do for the American people. Unfortunatley they all make a million promises but once they get in they never follow through. It's hard to beleive that anyone of them can relate to the poor middle class or even upper middle class since they are all Millionare's. What do they know about wanting or not getting because they have never been there. My biggest problem with Hillary is that fact that she has allowed her husband to commit adultry for the thrity years that they have been marrried. Now to some that may not be such a big issue. For me it is a major problem. I feel anyone who allow there husband to carry on with other women are weak. She allowed it because she had an aggenda and that was to become President. Everyone has marital problems but infidelity is the worse betrayal of all. He has an affair for 12 years with Jennifer Flowers. He made a fool out of himself and his wife on National TV when he lied to the American people about his affair. I think I could maybe forgive once but on a regular basis ? Not! I don't know how you can get in bed day after day with a man who sleeps with other women. Call me old fashion but it really disgusts me. I could have voted for her if she had divorced him. I know nobody's perfect and many Presidents have had affairs but he made a proffession out of it. I don't know no where my vote is going but you can be sure Ms. Clinton is NOT getting my vote. I'm being hopeful that someone is going to get my attention by January. This is just my personal opinion. Which is my right:) as an American citizen. Have a good one!
Judi at 12:30AM on Sep 20th 2007
13. HillaryCare ONLY 110 billion! WOW! www.americansagree.com
Donald at 10:37AM on Sep 21st 2007