Hillary Clinton's healthcare 2.0

She has a pitch-perfect new ad and a grand plan for healthcare reform. How much will it matter in the campaign -- and beyond?

In political terms, her new healthcare plan plays against type. Rather than being timid and incremental, her proposals are as ambitious as those offered by John Edwards, who was the first major Democrat to offer a plan for universal coverage. (Dennis Kucinich remains a voice in the wilderness with his call for a government-run single-payer plan.) Like Edwards, she would legally mandate that uninsured individuals obtain health coverage -- and would provide ... Full Story »

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by Michael Townes Watson - Oct. 1, 2008

The story accurately points out some of the difficulties that will be encountered by any candidate who proposes a plan for universal healthcare insurance coverage. It describes the problems that the candidates will have in explaining to the electorate the nuances of the plans. What it leaves out is the problems which will be encountered by any plan that does not meet with the approval of the insurance lobbyists, who fought and won against Hillary Clinton's 1993-94 efforts in this arena.

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