Clinton acknowledges health care lessons

AP on Yahoo ^ | 2/9/07 | Holly Ramer - ap

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CONCORD, N.H. - Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that her unsuccessful health care reform effort in 1993 makes her more effective on the issue now as she seeks the presidency.

"I know there's a big difference between setting a goal and being able to get all the players at the table to agree to it and get it enacted," she said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "I think I know what not to do as well as having picked up some very important experience in the last 14 years about how to proceed."

This week, rival John Edwards offered his plan for universal health care that calls for a tax increase to ensure health care coverage for all and a requirement that businesses provide insurance. The tax increase would pay for the plan's cost of up to $120 billion a year.

In 1993, as first lady, Clinton led her husband's calamitous attempt to overhaul the nation's health care system. The failure of that effort helped Republicans win control of both the Senate and House the following year.

Clinton said in the interview that she is in no rush to offer her plan.

"The president can propose, but the Congress has to dispose, and if we don't have a consensus in the country that our present system is no longer adequate to provide quality affordable coverage to every American and increase the competitiveness of our economy and reduce the burden on individuals, then we can't get any plan sent forward," she said.

There are different ways to achieve the goals of universal coverage, higher quality and lower costs, she said, "But the first step is getting a majority of our citizens convinced it has to be done," she said.

Clinton spoke on the eve of her first trip to New Hampshire as a presidential candidate. She will spend the weekend holding town hall forums and attending small house parties.

At issue in the state is the status of New Hampshire as the first primary state. Clinton said New Hampshire deserves to hold its primary whenever it chooses, but the Democratic front-runner wouldn't say whether she agrees with allowing another state to vote first.

"I believe New Hampshire deserves to be able to put its primary wherever it chooses and I will be there to compete whenever it happens," she said.

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Democratic Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007 to discuss a new report detailing the continuing anti-Israel bias in school textbooks produced by the Palestinian Authority. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

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"I know there's a big difference between setting a goal and being able to get all the players at the table to agree to it and get it enacted," she said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

Carpathia had choreographed the murders, and then, while the witnesses sat in horror, Carpathia quietly told them what they had seen—the same story the newspapers now carried. Every witness in that room but one corroborated it. Most chilling, they believed it.

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Hillary's objective hasn't changed. But she knows getting what she wants in one fell swoop would be calamitous. Better to go the "salami" route.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[YaYa123]

Healthcare lessons Hillary has learned?

For the record, the following:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/may96/background/health_debate_page1.html


Even PBS' version of events shows just how arrogant Hillary was when Bill tasked her with deciding what healthcare us little people would get. You'll LOL when you find out, but for Paula Corbin Jones and Dan Rostenkowski, we'd already be living...and dying.... under HillaryCare.

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The grifter also knows how to:
1) Reorganize the White House travel Office (all fired)
2) Optimize administrative functions and record keeping (900 FBI files/Rose Law firm billing records)
3) Terminate unproductive employees (Vince Foster)

Feel Free, Freepers, to add to the list.

Semper Fi,

[texgal]

You'll LOL when you find out, but for Paula Corbin Jones and Dan Rostenkowski, we'd already be living...and dying.... under HillaryCare.

God save us from having this person for president. Lord know the people who want something for nothing will not.