• BB69@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_1993

    It was called Hillarycare by republicans. Pharma and insurance companies lobbied against it and attacked the person in charge… Hillary Clinton.

    I highly recommend you watch the documentary on her that’s on Hulu. Even if you ignore what she says, just look at the attacks that were made on her over the decades. You might find a degree of appreciation.

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      10 months ago

      Thanks for the link!

      It was exactly what I thought it was, just forcing everyone to be on a plan not a true single payer program.

      Also, that link isn’t clear on her involvement…

      Appparently one of the people involved says Hilary didn’t really do anything? She lied and claimed it was her to shield Bill from the political consequences of it failing?

      In September 2007, former Clinton Administration senior health policy advisor Paul Starr published an article, “The Hillarycare Mythology”,[39] and he wrote that Bill, not Hillary, Clinton, was the driving force behind the plan at all stages of its origination and development; the task force headed by her quickly became useless and was not the primary force behind formulating the proposed policy; and “[n]ot only did the fiction of Hillary’s personal responsibility for the health plan fail to protect the president at the time, it has also now come back to haunt her in her own quest for the presidency.”[39]