This was 5 months before Hillary's task force submitted a plan. It is a tough sell to claim he supported a plan that didn't exist yet.
I remember those days. I had the same conservative views that I have now in 2003 and 1993 and 1983.
It was clear to every conservative in the country what the goal was for Hillarycare, because they said what the goal was.
In his campaign, Bill Clinton talked about health care being a "right" of all Americans.
He had already talked about defining a basic package of health care that every American would have a right to receive.
They had appointed big government arrogant liberal d-bag Ira Magaziner to head things up.
All of us conservatives were fighting this thing tooth and nail at the time.
Hillary was trying to keep the proceedings secret because the idea was to write the bill in secret and then spring it at the last minute and try to ram it through.
You can argue that Rick was a liberal in 1993 and only became a conservative later, that would be fine.
But I remember those days and those of us who were conservative were fighting like hell to push the RINOs like Bob Dole into fighting this thing, it was clear to all what the goal was. Conservatives certainly weren't commending Hillary and lobbying for government favors for some specific group.
http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/statesman/politifact/092411_perrylettertoclinton.doc
Above is his letter. There was concern at the time the results would put rural area’s in a bind by putting small health care facilities out of business. I see his letter as a a request to not screw over the rural people. I don’t see it as praising the plan.
The Clintons were in charge with Democratic House and Senate at the time. In April 1993, many expected that this was going to be put in place and tried to minimize the damage.