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EmilyAnne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 05:34 AM Original message |
Hillary Clinton's 1993 Health Care Plan- Why didn't it pass? |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 05:44 AM Response to Original message |
1. What happened was that Hillary did the same thing Obama is doing |
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EmilyAnne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 05:56 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. So you think that Obama's health care plan is not rational? |
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EmilyAnne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 05:56 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. And here is Harry and Louise for those of us too young to know the reference. |
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Asia Expat (116 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 06:33 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Thanks for that link. |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 06:15 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. In the sense that it doesn't address the root problems that have led to the current debacle, yes. |
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cyclezealot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 06:24 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Yes. the Harry and Louise ads were the biggest factor |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 08:23 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. "there is no compromising with them." |
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cyclezealot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 09:09 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Reason we love our Dennis Kucinich |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 09:15 AM Response to Reply #1 |
16. LMAO. The only difference between their plans are the mandates. |
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elixir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 09:17 AM Response to Reply #1 |
17. Agreed. She tried to answer everyone's needs and couldn't get it off the ground. |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 09:34 AM Response to Reply #1 |
22. You're off base with you analysis. |
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CTLawGuy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 10:13 AM Response to Reply #1 |
26. she wrote the thing herself, down to the last detail, in private |
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Hart2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 05:47 AM Response to Original message |
2. There is another thread about this here. In short it wasn't really important to them. |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 05:58 AM Response to Original message |
5. It was too mystifyingly complex |
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ramapo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 06:27 AM Response to Original message |
8. Republicans couldn't let it pass |
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IADEMO2004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 06:41 AM Response to Original message |
10. Long but worth the read, Before this election year drama |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 08:46 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. The reason why there were so many competing Democratic plans |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 09:26 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. And, of course, there were many Democrats owned by corporate interests then, as today. |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 01:40 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. I did not mention Cooper, who I know nothing about other than what was said in competing threads |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 06:59 AM Response to Original message |
11. It was a plan crafted in secret by Clinton and large insurance companies |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
15. Here's a really good detailed timeline of what happened |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 09:24 AM Response to Original message |
18. The entire health care industry rose up against it, along with the GOP. |
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jasmine621 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
20. You folks keep erroneously believing that the Dem elites supported the Clintons. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
21. It was as transparent as Cheney's energy policy meetings |
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Ino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 09:35 AM Response to Original message |
23. Hillary's campaign called me... |
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union_maid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
24. Ahead of its time |
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Exilednight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-20-08 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
25. In a nutshell - |
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