Republican type of spin. They've been using that line since 1980 to kill everything, to prevent programs and to minimize regulation and to turn more of the keys over to Big Bidness.

It's always disheartening when Democrats use it. Kind of an updated "The Era of Big Government is over."

It's especially ironic, because it usually means a complicated corporate bureaucracy and/or making government bureaucracy MORE complicated to protect the interests of Big Bidness.

I know, 2008. But she's still at it.

which is why the GOP hates her...now she wants to expand it...n/t

She also got lambasted for favoring an individual mandate which is the sine qua non of the Affordable Care Act.

there is a bill before congress to abolish selective service? I hope they bring in ALI during the signing....

Trying to expand veterans care into care for all people. It failed.

It continued to grow under LBJ's Great Society. It failed, but we saw strengthening of social security.

It continued with Teddy Kennedy during the Nixon administration. It failed.

Did exist during the Clinton administration. It failed.

It made ground in the Bush administration largely by the Kennedy's political machine and Obama's political movement. (Why do you think Kennedy put his full support behind Obama.) And was signed as such, the ACA. An imperfect system for sure, it needs to be improved upon as both candidates have agreed.

Nice try though.

she has been GOP enemy number one since

have been nothing for Obama to fight so hard for

She did not.

Kennedy was FAR more instrumental in getting it past Congress. Frankly she had nothing to do with it. In fact, at that point she was sabotaging. She was against the ACA.

it's like going to court....you know the first attempts at trying a case are going to loose and you know when it gets kicked up or down the road it's going to win eventually...so thank-god she didn't have a fragile ego and she's doing it because it's the right thing to do....during that whole time did she receive a paycheck from the gov for her work? No...she was first lady at the time.

She campaigned AGAINST the best chance we had at universal health care since the Nixon administration because it was "impossible" or "far-fetched"... that her solution was "common sense".

She tried to sabotage the ACA because of her ego.


And to your off topic remark:

She was the first lady of the United States. I don't care how she was or wasn't reimbursed. I don't OWE her anything. She tried to destroy the ACA.

And no, I don't remember the mantra of how difficult or impossible it would be to pass ACA.

I was for Clinton in 2008 largely because Obama wanted an optional system. Without a mandate it is not universal.
Clinton pushed Obama to support a universal plan.

something passed! grow up.

If she really wants to incrementally improve the ACA, it would seem that that would be first on her agenda. So far I haven't heard her mention it once.

could. Remember it well. While those dreamers were ridiculing Obama, some of us who have been supporting health care reform recognized just what an accomplishment it was and how a failure would have been the end of reform for a decade or two.

the entire fight over health care was over the mandate and she favored it while he didn't so in point of fact she was correct as he admitted about 5 minutes after he became President.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were running on virtually identical health care plans -- the most notable difference between the two candidates' plans was that Hillary Clinton's plan included the individual mandate, whereas Barack Obama's did not. But the reality is that the plan was unworkable without the mandate, and I believe that candidate Obama probably knew it to be true. In the end, the health care plan that became law included the individual mandate, and was therefore closer to what Hillary was advocating to what Obama was advocating.