Should the Clinton 1993-94 health care bill have been passed

[bluestateguy]

Remember that bill had no public option or Medicare expansion in it whatsoever. While government's role in health insurance was expanded significantly, their bill fundamentally relied upon private insurance to deliver insurance services.

[leftstreet]

1. No

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Like This One, It Was A Wet Kiss To The Insurers

Rebuffed by the insurers, the Clintons had to move on to offshoring our jobs and repealing Glass-Steagall to make their fortune.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. Should the emancipation proclamation have been signed?

It did nothing about the status of slaves outside the Confederacy.

But it was a long time ago when standards of progressive progress were not so advanced.



If you have something to say about HCR in this century, go for it.

[timeforpeace]

4. Funny how the insurance companies don't try this scam when a Repuke is president. What's up with

dat?

[goldcanyonaz]

5. Totally different circumstances back then, the Clintons weren't elected to pass HCR.

There asshats were.

[xultar]

6. It would have been a great stepping stone for single-payer today.

[marmar]

8. Good point.....If it had gotten passed, maybe we'd be much further along in this debate.

And we wouldn't be dealing with all of this foolishness now.

[DaveinMD]

7. yes

The Clinton health care plan was much stronger.

There would have been 3 health care plans that people would have been entitled to. There would have been much stronger regulations on the insurers. There would have been a strong employer mandate instead of this stupid personal mandate. Everyone would have gotten a health card that could never be taken away. There were much stronger bans on exclusions by insurers. The savings generated by the plan would have been reinvested in health care. It was a much stronger plan than this monstrosity.

[marmar]

10. Bull. The insurance companies would have watered it down long before it saw the light of day.

nt

[DaveinMD]

11. nonsense

this question is about what was in the bill. The bill was just as I described.

[stray cat]

9. Doesn't matter - it would not have passed nor did anything since the nation was founded