During the Clinton administration, Hillary did an in depth study on the health care system in the USA.?

Question

Did she compair these findings with other nations of the world as to how their systems of health care compair to ours? Wouldn't she be one of the best qualified people to correct the medicare/medicade disfunctional system we now have? Can she offer proper solutions to aid all classes of US citizens?

Answer 1

I was a Hillary fan until her health plan was explained to the country by her spokesman George Stepanopolus. Some of the features of the plan were that all employers must provide health insurance to all of their employees, whether full time or part time. The cost was estimated to be $4000 per employee per year. At the time I had more than 20 employees, all on commission as travel agents, most working only a few hours a week, and only 5 of them even MADE more than $4000 a year. On top of that they were ALL covered under their husband's health insurance. I would have had to close my business had this plan been put into effect..
The reasons given were 1) the evil employers would put all employees onto part time status if they didn't have to cover part timers, and 2) the redundant coverage premiums would be used to cover the unemployed.
Mr. Stepanopolus was questioned by the media about firms like mine having to close, the estimate was that 800,000 small firms like mine would have to close. His answer, I will never forget, was " They'll get other jobs." Hillary absolutely did not care that she would be putting 800,000 small businesses into closure. That is why I have NO confidence in her, for health care or for anything else. How callous is that.
In California we have a proposal for universal health care on the state level that apparently has no downside - it's cheaper, you choose your own doctor, everyone is automatically covered. You can read about it by searching "Kuehl health plan". There is the matter that the present health insurers could no longer do business in California, putting some of them out of business eventually. (And unable to make the large political contributions they now make) But they have been asking for it, designing the horrible but profitable (for them) system we have now.

Answer 2

Yes the was a health care committee and proposal put forth.
This was all during a Democratic-controlled Congress in 1993-94.

Bill Clinton's First 100 hours in Office..............
January 25, 1993 - Clinton announces the formation of The President's Task Force on National Health Reform. The job of the task force, he says, is to "prepare health care reform legislation to be submitted to Congress within one hundred days of our taking office." He also announces that his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Early March 1993 - Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va, chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, and a recognized guardian of Senate procedure, blocks the Clinton reconciliation bill strategy. He is convinced the strategy amounts to a "prostitution of the process" by pushing through "a very complex, very expensive, very little understood piece of legislation."
May 28, 1993 - Bill Gradison, the head of the Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA), writes a letter to the First Lady restating his support for universal coverage but complaining of three recent occasions in which Hillary has attacked the health insurance industry for "price-gouging, cost-shifting and unconscionable profiteering."
May 31, 1993 - The Clinton Health Care Task Force is officially disbanded.

Answer 3

yes she did but i believe there was a team of players who were on the health CARE committee. They had a lot of good ideas but no one listened. The unions were afraid the new law would cut their benefits,health plans were afraid they would not get paid enough and the Republicans just didn't want any kind of plan at all. I guess they wanted to save the moneys for war. So we ended up with nothing. I am a union person, and I like my plan but it is costly. I thought the government should have at least put some kind of plan together so that everyone could have a good health plan, and that plan could have been expanded on as the ears went by.

Answer 4

Yes she did, it wasn't just Hillary on the commission that investigated UHC for America, I remember Bill Clinton telling the nation that the plan that was brought to the US for health care was just a start to the discussion and that if anybody could come up with a better idea then they should bring it forward and instead what was brought forward was blockage from the repuglican party. Yes I do think that she would be highly qualified for this issue.

Answer 5

Her GW speech shows she's keeping off a socialized gadget, even though it does pass assurance faraway from actuarial in direction of social settlement form. this is not so leftist as you may think of. i for my area think of we'd desire to take malpractice thoroughly out of the tort gadget and pass to a no-fault recompense for destructive outcomes, regardless of whether the undesirable effect is by an blunders, much less whether somebody is at fault for it. Canadian docs stack up properly against US docs, and a similar might properly be reported for the acceptance of, say McMaster whilst in comparison with US opposite numbers. this is the gadget that has flaws, as all systems do, and the U. S., having no single gadget of well-being care, gives you a plethora of thoughts.

Answer 6

Comparing us to other nations is 100% irrelevant. Fact. We are America, not other nations. If you want to see how well socialized health care works, go to www.therealcuba.com
Universal health care is a pipe dream.

Answer 7

I can't stand her but if she comes up with a good plan I will at least give it some consideration. Her record on the issue is not too promising but I do believe she may have a good understanding of what is wrong.

Answer 8

Yeah, her solution included putting you and your doctor in jail if you tried to hire him with your own money instead of going through the government.

Nice work, Hillary.

Answer 9

of course.......but her husband had sex with a 20 year old.......so lets throw out any chance of fixing the health system that is crippling our country

Answer 10

http://gfreitag.tripod.com/Health_Care_Plan.html