Could Clinton have achieved healthcare iniative in 99.

[Skink]

I was working for a cruise line at the time. Basically for his entire second term so I was out of touch. But.... if these are actually repub ideas and we had the money which we did could it have happened and I mean either if the early nineties had not happened or even if they did?

[DURHAM D]

1. NO

[safeinOhio]

2. Impeachment hearings

stopped everything.

[Skink]

3. Does that mean it might have been back on the table.

[Oregone]

4. Almost any Democratic dominated congress could of passed this old rejected Republican idea for...

the last few decades...


Dont let the Kabuki theater fool you. Yeah, yeah, they all put up a good show, but if you turn back the clock you find out whose idea this really was and which party actually stood in the way of mandated & subsidized private insurance

[Skink]

6. Is that what Gore would have done?

I returned to the states just as the election of 2000 went crazy. And since I wasn't working got to watch it al live.

[Oregone]

8. Not sure. Its certainly seemed like the consensus reform for last few years so its possible

Just like NAFTA was a consensus structuring of international trade in the favor of the rich. It was up to each separate party to sell it to their base, whoever was in charge at the time.

[saltpoint]

5. They gave it a whirl during his presidency.

Things didn't work out.

The hammock rotted and the dog died.

[Skink]

7. Hammock or Hemlock?

[saltpoint]

11. Hi, Skink. I don't remember. They took me to a place in a basement

somewhere just before the Lewinsky thing broke and didn't let me out until this year's Superbowl at halftime.

[Skink]

12. Prepare yourself....

The Red Sox won the world series at least once during that time.

[saltpoint]

13. Bullshit! I don't believe it for a minute!

Next you'll tell me that David Vitter hires hookers to change his diapers.

[Skink]

14. Yep.

[Drunken Irishman]

9. No.

Especially in 1999 with a pending election involving his Vice President. That would have created a battle similar to what we saw this go around, except the Democrats were in the minority at both the House & Senate levels. No way would they have had enough votes to pass anything.

Plus, Clinton held less clout after the impeachment proceedings, even though he was a popular president.

[pnwmom]

10. Not necessarily. Even this time around, many Republicans rejected positions

that had openly taken not long ago. If the Dems were for it, then they were against it -- no matter what they'd said in the past.

[bluestateguy]

15. The Republican Congress gave him SCHIP as a consolation prize in 1997

That was all he was going to get.

[Captain Hilts]

16. No. Not enough Dems. Too many were conservative. nt