(Hillary) Clinton, Gingrich Seek Health Care Reforms

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5157352,00.html

Clinton, Gingrich Seek Health Care Reforms

WASHINGTON (AP) - What a difference a few years make?

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, the face of the relatively new Clinton administration's attempt to push a health care policy overhaul in the early 1990s, found Newt Gingrich, a Georgia Republican in the House at the time, as her adamant foe.

But there, standing together Thursday, were Clinton and Gingrich. Now a U.S. senator from New York, she joined Gingrich, an ex-House speaker and leader of the GOP's 1994 ``Contract With America,'' to push an array of health care reforms they said should be adopted by the government and private insurers.

Clinton and Gingrich said they want put partisanship aside to pull together a bipartisan coalition for cost-saving and lifesaving health care legislation.

``My hope and my sense is, we may be at the end of a 40-year cycle of bitterness,'' said Gingrich, who led the successful 1994 Republican effort to take control of the House.

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[AngryAmish]

1. Big corporate push for this

They want to get out from under their pension/health care obligations.

[Dawgs]

2. Good for them...

That combo sounds scary, but at least they're doing something.

[krkaufman]

3. I don't trust either of them.

Can't wait to see which corporations stand to make money off the deal.

[Dulcinea]

4. All of them.

If they don't have to pay for pensions or health care, the bottom line is healthier.

[jsamuel]

5. She is starting to scare me

between this and the video game thing...

[JNelson6563]

6. Is she trying to seem presidential?

Oy!

[sintax]

7. Single payer universal healthcare

is the only way, forget the 'Reform' BS. hillary is playing the same old deceptive song. She's a corporate shill. Good Cop-Bad Cop

Satisfied with negotiating the terms of your slavery people?
that's what these "reforms" are. Tossin' a few crumbs to the beggars.

[Iowa]

8. The article doesn't provide much in the way of specifics...

but why in the hell would I want some centralized corporate database holding all of my medical records? Hell no! I prefer paper records stuffed into an old, dusty, broken-down filing cabinet somewhere. If I decide I don't like the direction my doctor is taking, or get into some dispute with him, I'll walk away and start fresh with another doctor - one who isn't swayed by the prejudices of other doctors. I don't want my employer accessing my medical records at the press of a button (which is something that will almost surely follow). I don't want some hacker accessing all my medical records, or some corporation buying and selling them to insurance companies, drug companies, or corporations who peddle products for whatever I happen to be inflicted with.

This nonsense about the need to access medical records quickly in an emergency is a bullshit cover for a more sinister intent. I can think of many things that are desperately needed to repair our health care system, yet this is the type of useless drivel HRC and her good buddy Newt are focused on. Unbelievable! If she is the nominee in 2008, we may as well declare the Democratic party dead and start over.