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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHillary Clinton’s Single-Payer Pivot Greased By Millions in Industry Speech Fees
https://theintercept.com/2016/01/13/hillary-clinton-single-payer/Hillary Clintons record on single-payer dates back to 1993, when she was tasked to help formulate White House policy. According to the notes of former Clinton confidante Diane Blair, Clinton told her husband during a dinner in February 1993 that managed competition a private health insurance market was a crock, single payer necessary; maybe add to Medicare.She eventually came to believe that the health care industry was too powerful to allow this reform to happen, and the plan she ended up putting together was not single-payer. Also in 1993, two physician advocates for single-payer lobbied her during a meeting at the White House. They said she told them they made a convincing case, but is there any force on the face of the earth that could counter the hundreds of millions of the dollars the insurance industry would spend fighting that?
The next year, in response to a question at a financial conference, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton said that if there was not a health care overhaul by the year 2000 we will have a single-payer system. I dont think its I dont think its a close call politically. I think the momentum for a single-payer system will sweep the country.
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Hillary Clinton’s Single-Payer Pivot Greased By Millions in Industry Speech Fees (Original Post)
eridani
Jan 2016
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merrily
(45,251 posts)1. I don't believe Hillary was ever for Medicare for All. I think this "Clinton confidante" is blowing
sunshine up our noses.
They said she told them they made a convincing case, but is there any force on the face of the earth that could counter the hundreds of millions of the dollars the insurance industry would spend fighting that?
So, they can buy ads. It's not as though the health care industry could defeat anyone at the polls and most Americans want Medicare for all. A lot.
In the end, because of the way Billarycare was handled by Hillary and Bill, a Democratic Congress would not vote for it. Do we really think Congress would have had the wherewithal to squash Medicare for All. Re-election is what they're all about.
EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)2. Her foreign policy
is much the same.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)3. Smears belong in GDP nt
eridani
(51,907 posts)4. Post a link showing that the numbers in the chart are wrong, please
Facts are not smears.