What is your opinion on President Bill Clinton's health care proposal back in the early 90s.?

Question

I'm writing an essay if I agree with the outcome or disagree. I however have mixed emotions I believe that in some ways health care should remain the same because in the US people can get fast efficient health care such as needing a heart transplant where as in Canada were they practice a universal health care people have to often wait years. However I also know that many Americans get their prescriptions from Canada because they have a universal rate which is much cheaper than to get prescriptions in the US. I was wondering what other peoples opinions are on this issue. Do you think that President Clinton’s health care proposal should have been put into effect or are you happy with the outcome and the way the US health care is today?

Answer 1

President Clinton did nothing while he was in office, and his health care plan was unrealistic. The reason why prescriptions are cheaper in Canada is because American Companies pay for all the research and when the medicine comes out; Canada just has to make it. Research and development cost billions.

Answer 2

He didnt deliver adequate value to the crusade in opposition to the president for the whole lot adding wellness care reform. He proposal, like Obama did, that men and women might receive what was once within the invoice and be happy there was once a invoice handed. Mr. Clinton will have proposal each person on the Netroots conference was once at the Democrats' aspect. Clinton was once now not a champion of wellness care reform. The Democrats might now not have got one handed in 1994 whilst Republicans took the bulk. Thats why.

Answer 3

I think you have to look at issues other than health care. If you want to say that providing health care to all is a priority, then you have to find other things you are willing to trade off in order to get it. Clinton's plan, as well as the one his wife would pass if she were elected next year, would necessarily institute high taxes in some form or another, either by creating a whole new health care bureaucracy and making insurance companies pay for it, or making HMO"s pay more money and therefore making people pay more for health coverage if they currently have it, or increasing income taxes.

As much as people laughed at President Bush's proposal, it creates an individual incentive for providing health care. It may hurt some people who receive health care from their jobs by not entitling them to the proposed tax credit, but if the goal is providing care to those who receive it, allowing them to enter into HMO"s or something like that will provide it.

I think if "Hillary health care" be it the 1993 or possibly 2009 version, led to long waits for certain health procedures, people would revolt and do what they could to put health care back to its previous state. What the Clintons were banking on would be that they would be out of power in the years it would take for people to realize the failings of theit ideas.

Answer 4

Our health care system is a mess right now, but turning it over to the government, state or federal is not the answer. Look to New york if you want to see a failing universal health care plan. They cant pay for it. The social security crisis is not a tenth of what universal health care will cost this country. The most disturbing aspect of government controlled health care is that I no longer control my health care needs. I don't want to wait three years with a painful gall bladder to get it removed, because a bureaucrat deems it not necessary..

Answer 5

The plan was too socialistic. I would have preferred a plan with maximum coverage, affordable rates and small copay on all doctor visits and meds. Everysone should pay something. The more one's income the more they should pay out of pocket. Insurance companies make obscenely high profits.

Answer 6

I'm happy with US health care overall. One thing that would make a huge improvement would be to limit the impact of trial lawyers. Southern Illinois, for example, is known to be very favorable to plaintiffs in fake malpractice cases. We have a corrupt, democrat run legal system here. In reforming medical insurance, you can't rule this out.

As a result of out of control legal cases that come here because of corruption, there are no neurosurgeons and few ob/gyns and others who can not afford to practice here. The trial lawyers and liberal politicians who support them have raised insurance premiums so high that docs can't practice here. Pretty much, if you are in an accident here or have a high risk pregnancy, you are out of luck. Thanks a lot Democrats! Biggest element of reform - control fake malpractice litigation.

Answer 7

Shamefully, there are millions of people in the US without any health care at all. Many are dying because they can't afford to go to a Dr. or get the medication they need. The lucky ones who have the benefits either through their employers or because they can afford to be self-insured, don't seem to care about the less fortunate ones. Don't you think it would be better for everyone to have coverage? It doesn't mean that the more fortunate ones will have less, it only means that those that cannot afford it will be covered. I don't understand why people would be against that. The fallacy that it would have bankrupted the country is absolute BS. If the 3 trillion dollar war in Iraq hasn't bankrupted us yet, how can a health care program that saves lives instead of taking it do it?

Answer 8

I believe in Universal Health care that is completely independant of the Insurance Companies.
The Insurance Companies have
significantly increased the cost of US Health care to line their own pockets.

Answer 9

Don't you mean Hillary health care proposal that was held behind close doors and was a sham.

Answer 10

The Clinton Health care plan was a socialist 'pipe-dream' that would have ruined health care in this country, and possibly have bankrupted the country.