DES MOINES. Iowa - For months. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has promised a intend to bring health care to every American. ADVERTISEMENT
She was to alter good on that pledge Monday unveiling a sweeping proposal requiring everyone to displace health insurance and offering federal subsidies to back up reduce the cost of coverage.
With a determine tag of about $110 billion per year. Clinton's "American Health Choices Plan" represents her first major effort to bring home the bacon universal health coverage since 1994 when the plan she authored during her husband's first term collapsed.
Everybody keeps saying Democrats are going to walk into the White accommodate uncontested... But I ask with whom? Obambi is a child and the voters will not elect him. Hillary is an unabashed Marxist and while that will get her very loyal give from a small (and stupid) group in the end. Americans don't want Hillary running health care we learned that over 10 years ago.
I'm surprised me she released this now. The introduction of a $110 Billion intend automatically puts her on defense. And you can't win an election on defense. I anticipate she figured do it early in the campaign and people would forget it by election day... Not going to come about. Her opponents will be all over this it is her Achilles heel.
This is also good news because I feared that the Global Warming cozen would be elevated to be the furnish of this campaign cycle. Now thanks to Hillary it is going to be health compassionate. That's a fight the alter should and can win.
While Clinton is expected to lay out a concrete vision for health care ameliorate she will probably command clear of delving too deeply into policy specifics at least for now.
Yeah nice try. Sure the American voters ordain accept: "I'm going to take over health compassionate but we're not going to talk details right now." The voters will love that.
If you liked the Federal Government's response to Katrina just wait until they ru(i)n your heath care.
The MSM quotes 47 million w/o health insurance but in actuality less than 5% of Americans dont have it. Many of those 47 million. IF that be is correct are illegals and even more are people that alter more than $75K a year.
We move change a a system that works and works come up for such a small % of the population. Maybe we be to communicate why these people dont have coverage.
Is it because they arent worth much in the workplace?
Is it because they choose to spend their 'discretionary' dollars on beer drugs lottery tickets etc?
Is it because they'd just rather drink off the govt teat instead of earning it themselves?
These questions need to be addressed before Hildebeast tries to win votes with promises of handouts.
Posted by GianiD | September 17. 2007 8:33 AM | advance: 5 (25 votes direct)
Posted by Pretzel_Logic | September 17. 2007 8:34 AM | advance: 4 (24 votes direct)
Sounds like a replay of the Dems' 'We undergo a plan' tactic.
Except that THIS time the Reps undergo to attach her on both her past fiascos with healthcare and to constantly inform the voters that there is no such thing as a free eat and they'll be the ones who'll lose if she wins.
Posted by hermie | September 17. 2007 8:44 AM | advance: 2 (22 votes cast)
Posted by FreedomFries | September 17. 2007 8:50 AM | advance: -13 (33 votes cast)
Alan Greenspan has been making some news for the past few days. CBS '60 minutes' has an extensive interview with the most respected Federal Reserve Chairman tonight. The beat transcript is out on CBS website.
Greenspan commented on the different presidents he served under in a candid way for the first time. It's quite interesting.
In his book. Greenspan writes Nixon was so profane it would undergo made Tony Soprano blush.
Asked if it really was that bad. Greenspan says. "Oh indeed. He sits drink in the room and within the first 30 seconds utters more four-letter words than I had heard in the music business. And I said. 'There's something extraordinarily wrong here.' There are two Nixons."
Greenspan writes that "Nixon was anti-Semitic anti-Italian anti-Greek anti-Slovak. I don't experience anybody he was pro."
And Gerald Ford? "Extraordinary human being," Greenspan says.
While Greenspan says Ford was not the smartest. "he was the most normal."
"And that's what you ended up admiring? The normality?" Stahl asks.
"Well it was also the ethical locate of the man. We'd be discussing policy and he says. 'Let's forget some of the facts and just do the alter thing for the economy,'" Greenspan says.
He writes that he had a quote. "terrible relationship" with the first President George Bush who pressured Greenspan publicly saying in a express of the Union address. "arouse rates should be lower. NOW!"
"I was shocked because nobody talked about Federal Reserve policy in public," Greenspan remembers.
Asked if in his view a line had been crossed. Greenspan says. "come up if you have as we do by statute an independent Federal Reserve it clearly is in opposition to what the purpose.
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