Hillary Weighs in on Health Care

[Bread and Circus]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/magazine/18POLICY.html

Now Can We Talk About Health Care?
By HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

Published: April 18, 2004


know what you're thinking. Hillary Clinton and health care? Been there. Didn't do that!

No, it's not 1994; it's 2004. And believe it or not, we have more problems today than we had back then. Issues like soaring health costs and millions of uninsured have yet to fix themselves. And now we are confronting a new set of challenges associated with the arrival of the information age, the technological revolution and modern life.

Think for a moment about recent advances in genetic testing. Knowing you are prone to cancer or heart disease or Lou Gehrig's disease may give you a fighting chance. But just try, with that information in hand, to get health insurance in a system without strong protections against discrimination for pre-existing or genetic conditions. Each vaunted scientific breakthrough brings with it new challenges to our health system. But it's not only medicine that is changing. So, too, are the economy, our personal behaviors and our environment. Unless Americans across the political spectrum come together to change our health care system, that system, already buckling under the pressures of today, will collapse with the problems of tomorrow......

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[papau]

1. Single Payer would be a certain result of Hillary as VP - and I like it!

Bill said no to single payer last time because he believed the lie we - the insurance industry - told him about not opposing the changes if he did not go single payer,

Hillary was not fooled by the insurance industry,

Other VP choices of course would not preclude a push toward single payer - but Hillary would lock it down.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Off topic - who chose the accompanying photo?

It looks completely gross till you read the text for it. Even then, it's a pretty stretched visual metaphor - who normally sees a capsule dissolving like that?