Documents Show That Hillary IMMEDIATELY Fought HARD For Health Care Reform

[Danzo]

They also suggest that Hillary played an active role in many aspects of Bill Clinton’s presidency. This refutes the mindless talking point from some Obama supporters that Hillary didn’t gain any experience from being first lady.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/19/clinton.documents/index.htm

[gabeana]

1. Link not working

plus I read after health care failed she had a more traditional first lady role

[Fredda Weinberg]

2. Here, buried below the crotch sniffers

But the schedules also show her involvement in policy -- she dove into health care reform just three days after her husband's inauguration in 1993, and dozens of related events followed.

Despite her efforts, the Clinton health care reform foundered in Congress.

Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said the trove of documents "shows she was a co-president," revealing an "extraordinary extent of meetings for an unelected official to be meeting with cabinet officials."

The documents cover nearly 2,900 days. An additional 27 days will be posted in the near future, the archives said.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/20/clinton.documents/index.html

[Lucky 13]

3. ...thus hastening her ultimate defeat.

It's not how quickly you get something accomplished.
It's how quickly you can accomplish nothing.

[thunder rising]

5. And give up. Never to be mentioned again.

[Danzo]

6. She Gave Up On Health Care Reform? EXCUSE ME?!

Explain to me how someone who, ACCORDING TO YOU, "(gave up)" on health care reform gets CONSISTENTLY high ratings from The American Public Health Association an organization which "is concerned with a broad set of issues affecting personal and environmental health, including federal and state funding for health programs "

Hillary's American Public Health Association ratings:

2006: 100% ( http://votesmart.org/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=3551 )

2005: 80% ( http://votesmart.org/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=1350 )

2004: 100% ( http://votesmart.org/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=2993 )

2003: 100% ( http://votesmart.org/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=2478 )

2002: 100% ( http://votesmart.org/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=2248 )

2001: 100% ( http://votesmart.org/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=1631 )

So Hillary got PERFECT ratings in five of the last six years from an organization interested in increasing state and federal funding for health programs, yet you are going to tell me that she "(GAVE UP)" on reforming health care?

The truth is that she cares PASSIONATELY about reforming health care and she NEVER STOPPED caring.

[Recursion]

4. And failed

[Bonobo]

7. She failed her biggest test. Let me repeat: She failed. FAILED. F.A.I.L.E.D.

[Danzo]

9. So You EXPECT someone to be able to...

...overcome the will of a Republican-controlled Congress for 6 of 8 years Bill Clinton was in office and a Republican PRESIDENT in every single year that Hillary was a Senator?

You would have failed just as badly as she did. I haven't seen Obama making huge waves in health care reform since HE became a Senator, either.

[Drachasor]

8. ...and due to numerous tactical and strategic errors, failed utterly

[eridani]

10. She fought hard to keep corporations in control of it n/t

[EFerrari]

11. She failed on health care reform and she failed big.

[bklyncowgirl]

12. There's no question she fought hard on health care.

There's also no question that she failed and that the failure was largely her own fault.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

13. Hillary was a pioneer in bringing secrecy into the Executive Branch

with her secret health care hearings. I didn't like when Cheney did it and I don't like Hillary doing it with her health care task force.

Ultimately, she FAILED TOTALLY. Totally. She wasted the moment. How many families today would be better off if she was the effective results manager she claims to be?