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Hillary and Health Care Prove a Toxic Mix
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 Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:00 am Post subject: Hillary and Health Care Prove a Toxic Mix |
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 Hillary and Health Care Prove a Toxic Mix
When Hillary Clinton last took a stab at repairing America's health-care system, advertisements featuring ``Harry and Louise'' -- a fictional couple struggling to comprehend her proposal -- aroused nationwide hostility. An overwhelming majority of Americans rejected her grand vision of an enormous government-run health-care bureaucracy.
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When Hillary Clinton last took a stab at repairing America's health-care system, advertisements featuring ``Harry and Louise'' -- a fictional couple struggling to comprehend her proposal -- aroused nationwide hostility. An overwhelming majority of Americans rejected her grand vision of an enormous government-run health-care bureaucracy.There is no question that her plan was one of the single biggest domestic-policy political blunders of the past 50 years. We would not have had a House Speaker Newt Gingrich if there had not been a Hillary health-care plan.But as a frontrunner in a race where every challenger for the 2008 presidential election has a health plan, Clinton has decided she must have one, too. So here we go again.Putting Hillary in charge of the Democratic health-care plan for the election is a little like asking Mike Dukakis to be in charge of military photo ops. Dukakis, one might suppose, would tell candidates they should stay away from tanks, and if they ever get near one, to at least refuse the headgear. Clinton, for her part, has taken a similar tack, using the 1993 plan like a chart of troubled waters.The problem is, even without the ludicrous headgear, the famous Dukakis photo would have been a disaster because it showed Dukakis in a tank. It wasn't the headgear that was the problem, it was the nerdy candidate.Likewise, a look at the Clinton plan suggests that the fundamental problem from 1993 is still with us: Hillary Clinton and health care do not mix.The PlanThe crux of Hillary's plan is an ``individual mandate,'' which requires that all Americans buy health insurance, but guarantees that the government will make insurance available to everyone at ``affordable'' prices.To accomplish this, the plan will create a government- regulated national pool through which individuals can purchase insurance. Those who are already insured would get to choose whether to keep their current health coverage or purchase the new national plan.
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