In the debate Clinton made a statement that before it was Obamacare it was Hillarycare and some

[bigdarryl]

People on DU automatically pounced on it as if she was lying.It tells me a lot of DU'ers are youngsters and have no idea of history as a 56 year old I remember as if it was yesterday how the rightwing went after the Clinton's on what they called Hillarycare

[elleng]

1. Yes they did.

They wanted info about and from those who had participated in assembling the plan, and it became messier and messier.

[Live and Learn]

2. I remember it better as HillaryCan'tDoCare. nt

[bigdarryl]

5. There are three branches of Government we don't have a king as President

Back then the rightwing did a hit job with ads to kill healthcare before it even got started.The American people turned against it so you can make fun of the fact it didn't get done but the Republicans controlled Congress back then.And no democrat President would have gotten that through

[kennetha]

3. yeah the younguns

act as if history started yesterday

[Stallion]

4. Hillary's Been Fighting for Progressive Issues Since Before Many of her Skeptics Were Born

she was the wild eyed liberal that was the worst nitemare of Republicans. She supported McGovern. She tried to assist in impeachment of Nixon. She tried to pass comprehensive medical coverage. That's why they hate her. That's why they have tried to destroy. Her political heritage was born in the progressivism of the 1960s. She decided to grow up and actually get things done rather than live in the liberal fantasy world. She experienced the liberal failures of Humphrey, McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis et al. and decided to help save the Democratic Party from irrelevance. Thank God for Bill and Hillary Clinton-DEMOCRATS that actually get things done

[Dem2]

6. Good Post

It seems unfair that she's criticized for trying to pass a plan that was more liberal than the ACA - isn't that what people want? A lefty that goes down fighting for what is right?

[Bagsgroove]

7. HillaryCare to ObamaCare

Bob Dole (then Senate Minority Leader) and Newt Gingrich (Minority Whip on his way up) and other GOP leaders attacked Hillarycare as, of course, "socialism." When pressed on what their alternative might be, they were stumped because they didn't have one. So they went to the right-wing Heritage Foundation to come up with a "free market" alternative health care plan. They had no intention of trying to pass such a plan, they just needed to say they had something.

The main points of the Republicans Heritage Foundation plan included 1) an individual mandate to purchase health insurance, 2) no pre-existing conditions exclusions, 3) subsidies for low income people to purchase insurance.

If that sounds familiar, it turned into the basis of Mitt Romney's plan implemented in Massachusetts, and then later it became the starting point for Obama's Affordable Care Act.

Now the Heritage Foundations plan commissioned as the Republican alternative to Hillarycare is, according to today's GOP...wait for it..."socialism."

It's kind of hard to take these guys seriously.