Universal health care Bill clinton

[Tavarious Jackson]

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competition, thereby restraining prices and encouraging quality of care. MEDICAID: The existing Federal-state program of health coverage for the poor. Under the Clinton plan, Medicaid beneficiaries would be folded into the health alliance system. MEDICARE: The existing Federal program of health coverage for the elderly and the disabled. Under the Clinton plan, a state could apply to the Government for permission to include Medicare beneficiaries in the aliance system, and a person who was already included in an alliance upon turning 65 could remain. NATIONAL HEALTH BOARD: A seven-member Federal panel that would be appointed by the President to oversee the states' creation of regional health alliances, interpret the guaranteed benefits package, enforce a national health care budget, monitor the quality of care and investigate pharmaceutical companies' prices for new drugs if evidence suggested prices were unreasonably high. NATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY CARD:


http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/23/us/clinton-s-health-plan-transcript-president-s-address-congress-health-care.html?pagewanted=all&mcubz=0

[Tavarious Jackson]

1. National health care security plan

Clinton purposed a national health care security card for all

[murielm99]

2. K&R

[GaryCnf]

3. The card provided almost nothing

The legislation he talked about allowed STATES to adopt a single payer option, just as they can under the ACA. In fact, this is the ACA.

NOT what was introduced by Representative Conyers and co-sponsored by then-Representative Sanders and Representative John Lewis, Representative Tammy Baldwin and others in 1993;

And NOT what Senator Sanders and Senator Harris will be introducing now;

And, NOT single payer

Speaking of introducing, who introduced the legislation described in this speech in Congress?