Hillary's Unsurprising & Disingenuous Opposition to Real Health Care Reform

[Nanjeanne]

By Dr. John Geyman - posted on Physicians for A National Healthcare Program.

PNHP is a fabulous resource for people who actually want to know more about Single-Payer, Medicare 4 All, etc. Full of resources, fact sheets, etc. http://www.pnhp.org/

From this article:

Here we go again. Hillary touting her long experience in government, claimed knowledge of health care, and ability to “get things done” as she affirms her support of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and distorts Bernie Sanders’ single-payer plan for national health insurance, Medicare for all.

Yes, health care reform is again center stage as a hot issue during this election season, with rhetoric, disinformation, and false allegations filling the national media—so much smoke and mirrors. But before we give Hillary credit for her credentials in health care, recall how that worked out for her in the 1990s. After huddling with the main corporate stakeholders in our health care system—the private health insurance, drug and hospital industries—she brought us a byzantine plan that was poorly conceived, too expensive, too complex, and never got out of committee to a vote in the House. It would have served industry well, but not patients, as Joseph Califano, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the Carter administration, said so clearly about its complexity: "Clinton’s plan rests on the belief that an army of policy wonks can predict what would happen under a program that would change one-seventh of the economy, which 30 years of experience tells us we can’t do"

http://pnhp.org/blog/2016/01/23/hillarys-unsurprising-and-disingenuous-opposition-to-real-health-care-reform/

[DURHAM D]

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[Dems to Win]

2. I was very frustrated with Hillary's refusal to even say the words 'single payer'

Hillary is the unique candidate who has had trial run at being president -- her husband put her in charge of health care at the White House.

And she failed miserably. She couldn't even get a plan out of committee in the House. No vote was ever taken on her plan.

We had to wait 20 more years to get any kind of insurance reform under Obama.

[Faux pas]

3. Great find!

Welcome to DU!

[farleftlib]

4. She's a compromised candidate

Her ties to the insurance industry will dictate her position on single payer, rather than the needs of the American people. A vote for Hillary is a vote against meaningful health reform.

[Nitram]

5. "Real Health Care Reform"? You mean like only whatever St. Bern proposes?

You don't get to decide what's real. Ask the 11 million Americans who have benefited from the ACA whether their health care coverage is "real".