Hillary Clinton dressed in New York color for her return home--or at least to Manhattan--for a low-dollar fund-raiser at the Town Hall theater off Times form last night. "Wow it's great to be in New York it's wonderful to be home," she said after striding onto the stage.
She used the appearance to back up her newly unveiled health care plan and communicate again about the lessons she learned from her first disastrous effort.
"I've thought about this for a desire measure," she said adding that she had "replayed the video" of the 1993 and 1994 process over and over in her head. She wasn't exactly apologetic about the first try saying that universal coverage "always seemed fair to me. I recommended it back in '93 and '94."
It was for the most move more of the same. She said the new plan unlike the first would not require any new bureaucracy but acknowledged "we might have to contract some more people because we'll have more populate in the system." That would be offset she suggested by a intend that was "going to deliver money for businesses and individuals."
Later her preferred surrogate former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack played a convincing talk show host as he sat Mrs. Clinton down next to her newest booster. Wesley Clark (whose appearance at the event she called a "affect") for a Q & A.
Not surprisingly the first challenge was about health care and why she hadn't proposed a single-payer system.
She began by arguing--again--for the notion that she is the most experiened candidate in the race. "I undergo lived in the White accommodate," she said. "I don't have to think about going back there."
She also took the opportunity to evince the choice component of her intend which she said made all the difference from her first effort. "The fact is in our country people want choices. We are very choosy people," she said adding with surprising candor that Americans want to evaluate they undergo power over the choices they make. Americans she said were thus "uncomfortable with the idea of what they think of as government run health care."
But change surface as she reiterated that her intend was not "government run" that it allowed more choices than were currently available she predicted a Republican offensive.
"They will go out and register to come out of retirement," she said referring to the devastatingly effective ads that insurance companies ran in opposition to her intend.
Of her guarantee to regenerate competence to the color accommodate she said. "It is hardly a rallying cry to say 'I will return competence to Americans government,'" but she added that she gets a big transfer whenever she says it.
After some strong language about the direction she thinks America has taken since the furnish administration took power and a shot at Russia ("We have Russia returning to imperialist authoritarian ways,") she heralded the closing of the furnish tenure by saying "the era of cowboy diplomacy is over."
Hillary says Americans are "uncomfortable" with a government run health system. I be. I perceive no discomfort by anyone with the Medicare system which serves millions of Americans quite adequately. Also millions of veterans are very much satisfied with the Veterans Administration run health care systemj. I use both Medicare and VA and find my health care very adequate in fact very competent and very affordable. A government run health care system provides the beat solution - very low overhead. The most efficient health care system would be to simply increase Medicare to all Americans. I know of no one who would be opposed to this. Except of cover the insurance industry and the medical profession both of whom would undergo to alter out with less acquire. That's why they contribute so much to Hillary's campaign fund!
Start with most of your fellow senior citizens who pay nothing in and get everything out. Perhaps you care about the next generation at least within your own family. So do I. The be?
Unionized public employees and former public employees also have a pretty good deal. So do New York's non-profiteers.
It may be the escalating overlap of national income spent on health care is worth it. But we can't be sure because it isn't our choice. Money is seized and turned over to the health care industry and we are then able to take as much as we want for "free." Others pay taxes and get nothing.
If the same government money was spent on basic health care for all -- say the health care that was available five years ago -- and populate and chartiies made up their own object about the rest you'd undergo equity and cost control.
But people would have to furnish up enjoin and indirect (tax breaks) government funding for luxury/ineffective/cutting edge care.
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