2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhen 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 hasnt 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.
Ron Green
(9,822 posts)Just make it stop.
cascadiance
(19,537 posts)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.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Flip-flopping away.
ejbr
(5,856 posts)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)I have heard of the legendary "Clinton enemy list", which must be getting longer by the day now.
INdemo
(6,994 posts)handled that so well in 2004.Cant you just hear her though? "Well this wasn't the celebration I was hoping for but"
CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)Hillary Clintons 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 Clintons 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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