Hillary Clinton: Healthcare Reform debacle (1993)

Hillary took over "Hillarycare" for Bill Clinton -- it was a divisive disaster that fell flat.

When Bill Clinton was president he gave his wife some make-work projects to help with, to consistently disastrous results. The first was "Hillarycare". There's debate whether she was just doing Bill's bidding (and offering him cover), or she was the great negotiator she pretended, but it was a disaster. Secret deals, bad design, it fell flat.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2017-05-26

When Bill Clinton was president he gave his wife some make-work projects to help with, to consistently disastrous results. The first was "Hillarycare". There's debate whether she was just doing Bill's bidding (and offering him cover), or she was the great negotiator she pretended, but it was a disaster. It also was clear what her motives and mode of operation was: secret negotiations to make government bigger, crony kickbacks, and a shrill reaction at other people's shrill reaction at being dictated to and cut out of the loop. A foretelling pattern?

Hillary took authority over health care reform:

she started secret closed meetings -- that polarized the public and industry against her
She threatened to "demonize" anyone that was resisting these efforts
Despite a democratic controlled congress, she couldn't their own party to bring anything she suggested up to a vote
Even Mitchell's compromise bill effort (unifying all the efforts the democrats had fragmented into) couldn't get a majority, let alone a filibuster proof one

This fiasco cost the American taxpayers about $13 million in cost for studies, promotion, and other efforts, and made healthcare reform a 3rd rail of politics for 15 years. And there was litigation around Hillary's violations of the openness in government laws. And it as such a disaster that it contributed to the Republicans taking over the house in 1994.

Hillary Clinton: Two Face[edit source]

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Hillary admits she lies (deceives) in her own words. She kinda brags about it. To quote, "If everybody’s watching, you know, all of the backroom discussions and the deals,...you need both a public and a private position" ~ Hillary Clinton

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Snopes doesn't touch the boondoggle. Politifact only touches it with regards to a claims that Hillarycare would have protected religious liberties and thus HobbyLobby case wouldn't have had to go against it. They hemmed and hawed and said the original proposal would have had the same problem, but there were so many bills and conditions required to get it passed, that we really don't know what it would have had in it. It never got enough support to reach critical mass. So fact checking something that never happened is a weird position. Factcheck only checks a claim Hillary made against Bernie Sanders -- he'd proposed a bill counter to hers (his was universal coverage, hers was more like the ACA). They said Hillary lied by implying Sanders wasn't working on healthcare in 1993, the cynical might assume that's just them spinning the most favorable light on the biggest liberal in the room (and Sanders is to the left of Hillary).

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