Reply #14: Yikes - just found this article out on google about the Dems

[janekat]

and health care. Guess we need to really push our Dem candidates on this. You know how many people have lost their health care in the last year? This could really be a great issue for one of them to take up. I know Gephardt was pushing on it for awhile - but it didn't go very far. I'll try to see what Clark has to say.


http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/7/reich-r.html
"Democrats also shy away from any mention of universal health care because they still believe that Hillary's ill-fated plan of 1994 was responsible for the Republican takeover of Congress later the same year. Their memories need jogging. Hillary Care sank of its own complex weight--which also made it a perfect foil for right-wing demagoguery. But it didn't go down without a fight, and not without substantial public support at the start. In fact, in late 1993 and early 1994, a majority of Americans listed "universal health care" as the most important unmet public need and their highest priority for government action."