Why I cannot support Hillary Clinton

[Rilgin]

207. Do you even know what the Hillarycare plan was?

Hillary Care had great similarities to the ACA. In both cases, the most salient point is that it deliberately kept the Insurance Companies as the entry points to the system. It was similar to a health care idea called the Aspen Plan. It was not people friendly. Basically, the exact same idea was voted down in an initiative process in California before the Clinton election.

At the time, all polls showed that Americans knew that the Health Care system was broken and people in all polls showed open ness to the Canadian and other government run health care systems.

Before the election, Clinton was supported by the big insurers. In their interest, the best thing would be for no health care reform. Second best was the system that Bill Clinton was going to put in place. Once in office, Bill appointed Hillary to a commission that was pure political theatre. After meeting with countless people, the commission dismissed single payer and public options, expanding medicaire and came up with the reform bill everyone knew was going to be adopted during the campaign.

You might actually look at the history before pointing to Hillarycare again. As said, the exact same type of reform was voted down in California mostly because it was another milktoast reform designed mostly not to upset the corporations.