Hillary Clinton touts universal healthcare at Geisinger conference

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | November 9, 2017 | Laura Legere

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DANVILLE, Pa. — Hillary Clinton knows a thing or two about pain.

Not just the soul-piercing kind that comes from losing to an opponent after describing yourself as the last thing standing between Americans and the apocalypse.

The broken-foot kind.

The former Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. senator and secretary of state walked gingerly across the stage at the “From Crisis to Cure” healthcare symposium at the Geisinger Medical Center campus on Thursday after having fractured her foot in October during her book tour in London.

The overriding lesson she has learned from studying — and using — the world’s healthcare systems is that “you have to have” a universal one that leaves no one out, she said during the conference’s keynote conversation.

The Affordable Care Act was clearly a compromise, she said, but “it got us to 90 percent coverage.”

She continued, “when people stand up and say, ‘We need single-payer and we need to blow up the whole system,’ my thought is, ‘Why don’t we get from 90 to 100 (percent coverage) before we try to go from zero to 100?’”

Mrs. Clinton spearheaded an ultimately unsuccessful healthcare reform effort in the early 90s during the presidency of her husband Bill Clinton. She has not backed a plan proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont for a single-payer system known as Medicare-for-all....

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I bet the old bat will be more than willing to pay for the albatross with Clinton cash