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INdemo

(6,994 posts)
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 08:09 PM Jan 2016

When asked during the Democratic presidential debate

what enemies she was most proud to have made, Hillary Clinton named pharmaceutical and health insurance companies at the top of her list. But that hasn’t stopped the Democratic front runner from accepting millions of dollars in campaign cash from both industries in the course of her political career, financial disclosure records show.

Hillary Takes Millions in Campaign Cash From ‘Enemies’

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/10/14/hillary-takes-millions-in-campaign-cash-from-enemies



For those that have to wonder why Hillary is hitting Bernie Sanders so hard on his Medicare for All Healthcare pproposals,
Well she is being paid well to attack Bernie.

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cascadiance

(19,537 posts)
7. But, but!... She said that one of her favorite enemies were "the Iranians" too....
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 08:40 PM
Jan 2016

Was she not honest in saying that? She seems to want to follow through with starting a war with them the way she's talking these days and before.

ejbr

(5,856 posts)
3. She's "evolved"
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 08:13 PM
Jan 2016

since taking those contributions, and will most likely "evolve" back once elected. Unlike Bernies' presumable change regarding suing gun manufacturers, her money trail makes her evolutions difficult to believe.

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
4. Huh? I thought she said "Republicans" were at the top of her list. It must be crowded up there.
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 08:14 PM
Jan 2016

I have heard of the legendary "Clinton enemy list", which must be getting longer by the day now.

INdemo

(6,994 posts)
5. I sure hope she calls Howard Dean to draft her scream speech because he
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 08:18 PM
Jan 2016

handled that so well in 2004.Cant you just hear her though? "Well this wasn't the celebration I was hoping for but"

cui bono

(19,926 posts)
8. Hillary Clinton’s Single-Payer Pivot Greased By Millions in Industry Speech Fees
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 08:42 PM
Jan 2016
https://theintercept.com/2016/01/13/hillary-clinton-single-payer/

Hillary Clinton’s sudden attack on Bernie Sanders’ single-payer health care plan is a dramatic break with Democratic Party doctrine that the problem with single-payer is that it is politically implausible — not that it is a bad idea.

Single-payer, the Canadian-style system in which the government pays for universal health care, takes the health insurance industry out of the picture, saving huge amounts of money. But the health insurance industry has become so rich and powerful that it would never let it happen.

That was certainly Clinton’s position back in the early 1990s, when she was developing her doomed universal coverage proposal for her husband, Bill.

But in the ensuing years, both Clintons have taken millions of dollars in speaking fees from the health care industry. According to public disclosures, Hillary Clinton alone, from 2013 to 2015, made $2,847,000 from 13 paid speeches to the industry.

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