The Health-Care Plan of 1993

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snip..The Clinton health care plan was a 1993 healthcare reform package proposed by the administration of President Bill Clinton and closely associated with the chair of the task force devising the plan, First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton.

snip..Its goal was to come up with a comprehensive plan to provide universal health care for all Americans, which was to be a cornerstone of the administration's first-term agenda. A major health care speech was delivered by President Clinton to the U.S. Congress in September 1993.

snip..Opposition to the plan was heavy from conservatives, libertarians, and the health insurance industry. The industry produced a highly effective television ad, "Harry and Louise" ad", in an effort to rally public support against the plan. Democrats, instead of uniting behind the President's original proposal, offered a number of competing plans of their own. Hillary Clinton was drafted by the Clinton Administration to head a new Task Force and sell the plan to the American people, a plan which ultimately backfired amid the barrage of fire from the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries and considerably diminished her own popularity. By September 1994, the final compromise Democratic bill was declared dead by Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell.

snip..Opposition to the Clinton plan was initiated by William Kristol and his policy group Project for the Republican Future, which is widely credited with orchestrating the plan's ultimate defeat through a series of now legendary "policy memos" faxed to Republican leaders. Conservatives, libertarians, and the health insurance industry proceeded to campaign against the plan, criticizing it as being overly bureaucratic and restrictive of patient choice. The conservative Heritage Foundation argued "the Clinton Administration is imposing a top-down, command-and-control system of global budget...cont

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Conservatives immediately went after Mrs Clinton in their effort to the STOP Universal Health Care Plan of 1993.
I recall this time, as Mrs Clinton was criticized by the Right Wing as not being First Lady-like, quiet & standing in the shadows tending to family & hosting non controversial women's teas, & promptly organized a campaign of Clinton Policy Haters on the Right & Groups like Big Pharma & Ins industry Players to bring it to an end. Much like they tried with President Obama's ACA.

Bill Clinton campaigned on Universal Health Care & invited his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton to lead the cause.
And like today, the same rabid right wing and powerful lobbies of the profiteers are still campaigning against Obama's ACA & the fear of the power of Hillary Clinton is obvious.
Universal Health Care was necessary & good for America in 1993 and it is today.

Every effort will be made in this 2016 election to stop Hillary Clinton this time, just as they did in 1993.
Best of luck Mrs Clinton.
We know who "they" are and we've seen their game many times before.
Same people, same reasons, same strategy.

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