How can anyone possibly present a point-of-view when simultaneously I have to address the fact that her 1993 proposal didn't receive bipartisan support and it wasn't a universal health coverage initiative?
I mean, which point should I address? In 1993, universal coverage would have been DOA in congress.
Also, I would note that Hillary lost you because she didn't put forward universal coverage, yet you support Obama whose health care policy is far far from universal single-payer coverage.
This doesn't make any sense at all to me.
Let's face it, Bill and Hillary Clinton badly botched something they were sent to the White House to get done. Part of it is shared with "Democratic" leaders like Daniel Patrick Moynihan. But if the Democrats had been as disciplined as the GOP is, and if the Clinton's had been competent in turning around a plan they were mandated to put in place, I have no doubt we'd have health care, equitable and for all, today.
They badly botched it, and they paid a price for that in 1994.
You all can say excuse them, and excuse the Democratic leadership at the time, saying they were too fractured, or whatever. I tend to employ occam's razon on this and say the simplest explanation is the best one: most Democratic representatives are not on our side, they are on shareholders and the corporations they own's side first and foremost. And what was true then is still true: tax cuts for the rich, Iraq, bankruptcy "reform", fisa, et c.
Until the message they come up with addresses that, Hillary ain't going anywhere for people like me. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
