Clinton Health Care Plan

Dear Mr. President, I Wish I Had Known...

Wendell Potter | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Janny-Scott, Clinton Health Care Plan, Ann Dunham, A-Singular-Woman, Health Care Reform, Stanley Ann Dunham, Cigna, Hmos, Health Care, Barack Obama, Managed Care, Business News
Wendell Potter

Like many others, I've heard President Obama talk about his mother's insurance problems during her final months in 1995. But I didn't realize until now that the company she was pleading with was CIGNA, the one I used to work for.

Read Post

Why All House Democrats Must Vote for Health Care Reform

Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Reich, Clinton Health Care Plan, Health Care Reform, Newt Gingrich, Democrats, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert Reich

From the start, Republicans have remembered the lesson of 1994. Now, as they prepare to vote, House Democrats should remember the lesson as well so as not to repeat that failure again.

Read Post

Reconsider. Think Again. Do More.

Evan Handler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Clinton Health Care Plan, Public Option, Health, Senate Health Care Bill, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Health Care, Obama Health Care, House Health Care Bill, Politics News
Evan Handler

Should Anthem Blue Cross succeed in raising subscription rates, your insurance company is going to quickly do exactly the same thing.

Read Post

Obama & Co. Forget 'Where's Mine?' and the Chicago Way

Michael L. Millenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Chicago Politics, Clinton Health Care Plan, Massachusetts Senate Race, Barack Obama, Public Opinion Polling, Scott Brown, Scott Brown Massachusetts, Martha Coakley, Politics News
Michael L. Millenson

Obama and the Democrats can either love their enemies like, say, one-term president Jimmy Carter, or they can practice the Chicago Way.

Read Post

The Dog Days of August

Neil McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Clinton Health Care Plan, Public Option, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Politics News
Neil McCarthy

In this potential summer of his discontent, Obama is running into the same buzz saw that killed health care reform in the last Democratic Administration.

Read Post

Reforming Health Care: Lessons Learned, and Lessons Forgotten

James Moeller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Michelle Obama, Health Care, Barack Obama, Health, Nancy Pelosi, Obama Administration, Obama Health Care, 1993 Clinton Healthcare Proposal, Clinton Health Care Plan, Health Care Reform, Paul Krugman, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
James Moeller

The one lesson this White House failed to heed from the last failure was one of message. Effective messages are simple and salient. Obama's economic argument for health care reform is neither.

Read Post

If Congress Fails to Pass the Obama Health Care Plan

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Breaking News, Health Care Reform, 1994 Elections, Clinton Health Care Plan, President Obama, Obama Health Care Plan, 2010 Elections, Democratic Moderates, Elections 2010, Politics News
Robert Creamer

History shows that swing-district Democrats have the most to lose if Congress fails to pass President Obama's sweeping health care proposal.

Read Post

Tiger Woods and Health Care Reform

Peter A. Ubel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Golf, Healthcare Reform, Behavioral Economics, Clinton Health Care Plan, Health Care, Politics News
Peter A. Ubel

The Obama administration is steeped with people knowledgeable about behavioral economics, who hope to keep the public from slipping into a state of loss aversion.

Read Post

How "Harry and Louise" Could Still Take Down Health Care Reform

Elizabeth Rigby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Harry and Louise, Politics, Congress, Clinton Health Care Plan, Health, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Public Opinion, Hillary Clinton, Obama Health Care, Kaiser Family Foundation, Barack Obama, Political Support, Media News
Elizabeth Rigby

Harry-and-Louise-style ads are powerful, not because they tell ignorant Americans what to worry about, but because they remind well-meaning Americans of what could be lost in the name of progress.

Read Post

The Health Care Troubles

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clinton Healthcare, Health Care Debate, Clinton Health Care Plan, Health Care, Health, Politics News
Mike Lux

Having been in the Clinton Health Care War Room, I knew that moments like this would come, times I would describe as "the troubles." We are officially in that phase.

Read Post

The Measure of Obama's Presidency

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Healthcare, Clinton Health Care Plan, Insurance Lobby, Clinton Healthcare, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Mike Lux

Clinton did not deliver the big lasting progressive changes he promised because he was largely unwilling to stand up to the big special interests in corporate America.

Read Post

Learning From History On Health Care Reform

Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Health Care for America Now, Liberals, Harry Truman, Progressives, Obama Administration, Afl-Cio, Medicaid, Reagan Era, Single Payer Health Care, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Universal Health Care, Conservatives, Clinton Health Care Plan, Red Scare, Hillary Clinton, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Aarp, Democrat Party, Republican Party, Politics News
Sahil Kapur

The most transformative health care overhauls that succeeded in the last century employed the same strategy: build on what we've got and let the changes happen organically.

Read Post

Harry and Louise Put the Long Knives to the VA

Peter J. Ognibene | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harry and Louise, Department of Veterans Affairs, Clinton Health Care Plan, Jon Stewart, President Obama, Va, Health Insurance, Coordination of Benefits, The Daily Show, American Legion, Politics News
Peter J. Ognibene

With unemployment and homelessness on the rise in general and among veterans in particular, tens of thousands of low-income veterans will likely wind up without healthcare.

Read Post

Next Big Change Up: Health Care Reform

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, The Progressive Revolution, 2009 Obama Administration, Health Care, Mike Lux, Clinton Health Care Plan, Obama Health Care, Politics News
Mike Lux

Obama knows how messed up our health care system is, and he knows we need big change. I'm glad he has the guts to take it on, and I'm glad to see his early strategic moves on it are smart ones.

Read Post

Bill Clinton: Obama Has A Chance On Universal Healthcare

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: First 100 Days, Barack Obama, Clinton Health Care Plan, President Barack Obama, Obama First 100 Days, 100 Days, President Obama, Clinton Healthcare, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton Health Care, Bill Clinton Healthcare, Politics News

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Bill Clinton said Monday that President Barack Obama has a chance to develop a universal health care system because he is free to spe...

Read Whole Story

Happy Health Care Reform New Year

Linda Bergthold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 111th Congress, President-Elect Barack Obama, Congressional Democrats, Congressional Republicans, Clinton Health Care Plan, Health, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Single Payer Healthcare, Progressive Movement, John McCain Health Care Plan, Politics News
Linda Bergthold

Why will 2009 be different from 1993? Obama is not making the same mistakes the Clintons did, and that is good news for all of us.

Read Post

Hillary Takes It to McCain on Health Care Today

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Families USA, Mccain, Obama, Hillary, Health Care, Clinton Health Care Plan, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Election, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Hillary Health Care, Politics News
Art Levine

Maybe the Democrats, including Hillary's own most ardent supporters, will find winning health care reform a good enough reason to unite behind Obama.

Read Post

Jason Linkins

Elizabeth Edwards: Favors Clinton's Health Plan, Says Obama's 'Not Universal,' Slams McCain's As Ineffective

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Video, Clinton Health Care Plan, Elizabeth Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards Health Care, Barack Obama Health Care, Hillary Clinton, John McCain Health Care Plan, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Hillary Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News

Elizabeth Edwards continued her passionate advocacy of universal health care on today's morning shows, appearing on both The Today Show and Morning Jo...

Read Whole Story

Clinton Role In Children's Health Care Disputed

Boston Globe | Susan Milligan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clinton Healthcare, Hillary Clinton, 1993 Clinton Healthcare Proposal, Clinton SCHIP, Clinton Health Care Plan, Children Health Care, Schip, Politics News

Hillary Clinton, who has frequently described herself on the campaign trail as playing a pivotal role in forging a children's health insurance plan, h...

Read Whole Story

Clinton: Insurance Discriminating Against Sick "Unconstitutional"

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hillary Clinton March 4, Clinton Health Care Plan, Clinton Unconstitutional, Clinton Ohio, Clinton Healthcare, Clinton Insurance, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Election, Politics News

Hillary often discusses the unfairness built into the healthcare system: That discrimination by race and gender is barred, but that insurance companie...

Read Whole Story

Michael Moore: Insurance Industry Would Love Hillary's Healthcare Plan

The Hill | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democratic Primary, Michael Moore Hillary Clinton, Clinton Health Care Plan, Michael Moore, Michael Moore Democrats, Clinton Healthcare, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Election, Politics News

en. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-N.Y.) proposal to mandate that all people purchase health insurance would be a boon to the industry, filmmaker Michael...

Read Whole Story

Clinton Issues Economic Plan

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clinton Economic Plan, Universal Health Care, Subprime Crisis, Clinton Health Care Plan, Subprime Adjustable Rate Mortgages, Clinton Economic Pamphlet, Clinton Economic Blueprint, Business News

MILWAUKEE — Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign released a 13-page blueprint for fixing the economy Monday, detailing the former first la...

Read Whole Story

Kennedy "Shocked" At "Distortion" In Clinton Health Care Ad

Political Radar | Sunlen Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hillary Clinton Health Reform 2008, Obama Healthcare, Clinton Mailer, Clinton Health Care Plan, Negative Attacks, Barack Obama Health Care, Ted Kennedy Obama, Universal Mandates, Obama Health Care, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

The presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama put out big gun backer Sen. Ted Kennedy and the Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle to respond to the negative Cli...

Read Whole Story

Bill Clinton: Would Be "Tragic If The Democratic Party Walked Away From Universal Health Care"

Dallas Morning News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hillary Clinton Health Reform 2008, Obama Healthcare, Clinton Healthcare, Clinton Health Care Plan, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Politics News

Former President Clinton on Friday offered voters an image of his wife as the only Democratic presidential candidate with a plan to offer universal he...

Read Whole Story

Krugman: Zero Chance Of Universal Health Care With Obama

NY Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democratic Primary, Clinton Health Care Plan, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Clinton Healthcare, Universal Health Care, Barack Obama Health Care, Universal Mandates, Health Care, Obama Health Care, 2008 Election, Politics News

The principal policy division between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama involves health care. It's a division that can seem technical and obscure -- an...

Read Whole Story