Hillary's Healthcare Plan Like Nixon's

Miami Herald   |  KEVIN G. HALL   |   November 28, 2007 11:38 AM


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Even before Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton unveiled her new healthcare plan, Republicans attacked it as socialized medicine. They neglected to mention, however, that her plan bears a striking resemblance to changes that were proposed in 1974 -- by the late President Richard M. Nixon.

''It was an extremely extensive plan, as I remember, that would have given universal coverage'' for healthcare, recalled Rudolph Penner, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office and economic official in the Ford administration.


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- williamg See Profile I'm a Fan of williamg permalink

Comparing Hillary to Nixon - How funny is that?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:38 PM on 11/28/2007
- Freedomfinder See Profile I'm a Fan of Freedomfinder permalink

It's the HMO template which was to be non profit but it is not!
Kaiser Permanente is stashing the cash somewhere they all do by denying treatment and life saving tests which should have been done post haste the Canadians use CT Scans and MRIs first thing plus DNA testing for inherited diseases and disorders.
It's called preventive medicine which the US has never practiced.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:46 PM on 11/28/2007
- godlessclif See Profile I'm a Fan of godlessclif permalink

Nixon would have burned the tapes if he knew what pussies the American people are.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:41 PM on 11/28/2007
- realitytrumpsbull See Profile I'm a Fan of realitytrumpsbull permalink

Does she like, get a percentage every time they
prescribe something?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:27 PM on 11/28/2007
- VivaZapata See Profile I'm a Fan of VivaZapata permalink

lobbyist wet dream: elect hillary

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:48 PM on 11/28/2007
- Grandmother See Profile I'm a Fan of Grandmother permalink

I hate Obama. I'm tired of his "I'm a nice guy" while sticking you in the back. Don't worry all you Obama supporters - if he gets the nomination the Republican machine (they are the guys who don't play nice)will make Lee Atwater's Willie Horton campaign and John Kerry's Swift Boaters look like they were just warm ups for the big one. They will not allow Obama to be elected and if he is somehow I'm moving out of the country because he has absolutely NO experience. Representing a Chicago district in Springfield, Illinois is not experience for the Presidency. Being against war (but not having to vote on it) is not experience. Being a little kid in a foreign country is not experience. Try decades of Republicans trying their best to beat you. That's experience. Try living through the hell of a corrupt special prosecutor determined to find something to put you in jail for.

And those of you who bash the Clintons, they are the only ones who have beat them at their own game - and that takes guts and smarts. Ask Walter Mondale, Muskie, Carter, Kerry, Dukakis, Harold Ford, and everyone else that's been bloodied and beaten by Atwater and Rove.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:04 PM on 11/28/2007
- poopdeck See Profile I'm a Fan of poopdeck permalink

Perhaps it means that Nixon had a good idea. After all, he traveled to China.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:45 PM on 11/28/2007
- Pdubya See Profile I'm a Fan of Pdubya permalink

one word:

plutocracy

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:30 PM on 11/28/2007
- ibsteve2u See Profile I'm a Fan of ibsteve2u permalink

So if Clinton's plan were to fly and health insurance purchase was mandated, if you couldn't pay your rent or buy food after paying your health insurance premium, could you go live at your local hospital since starvation and exposure are both life-threatening medical conditions?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:58 PM on 11/28/2007
- NWReader See Profile I'm a Fan of NWReader permalink

Points being:

1. Sen. Clinton has more in common with old-school Republican thought patterns than most folk realize.

2. Today's Republicans seem to have forgotten their own political history.

3. Requiring people who can't afford to buy health insurance to BUY HEALTH INSURANCE is worse than asinine. I hope someone gets the reference.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:44 PM on 11/28/2007
- ThatsNotFunny See Profile I'm a Fan of ThatsNotFunny permalink

Nixon was dead in 1974?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:27 PM on 11/28/2007
- SiskoKid See Profile I'm a Fan of SiskoKid permalink

LOL! I AM SO TIRED OF THE OBAMINGTON POST!!!!

If any of you saw Sicko, you'll understand that Nixon was going to do universal healthcare until he was persuaded by Kaiser not to do so. And Reagan further killed that idea by calling universal healthcare communist and socialist.

STOP WITH THE HILLARY HIT PIECES!!! STOP WITH THE HILLARY HIT PIECES!!!!

She wants universal healthcare, and it's a GOOD THING! You're going to kill something that is so important to this country because you love it when Obama sticks his crotch down your throat? STOP IT! It's getting really dangerous now.

This crap really has to stop. It's getting out of hand. I wish I could win the lottery and create my own site dedicated to bashing Obama. It'd be easy with his PAC fumbles, his ties to ethanol, his ties to lobbyists, and his BS rhetoric on Iraq and Iran (when he voted to fund the Iraq war all the time while never voting on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard), it'd be VERY easy to knock him down a few notches.

Obamington Post and Obama supporters say they want change, but they sure as hell use dirty tried and true tactics to get a candidate, with tried and true dirty political maneuvers, through to be our president.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:17 PM on 11/28/2007
- NoPCZone See Profile I'm a Fan of NoPCZone permalink

Since the Goldwater Girl is a Repugnican at heart does that really surprise you?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:13 PM on 11/28/2007
- wm1066 See Profile I'm a Fan of wm1066 permalink

The way I understand her plan is, everyone has to BUY thier own insurance. It won't be the government providing this through taxes.
The insurance companies will be calling the shots on this.
Imagine living from pay check to pay check and then by law having to give insurance companies a thousand dollars a year for health insurance.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:09 PM on 11/28/2007
- ReasonIsMyReligion See Profile I'm a Fan of ReasonIsMyReligion permalink

Point being... Nixon wasn't all bad?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:04 PM on 11/28/2007
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