Hillary has been fighting for health care reform since the early 1990s

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18. Do you know the Health Care Reform Plan of the Clinton Administration and in 2008?

The Clinton Health Care Plan was loosely based on the Aspen Plan and was similar to the current Insurance Plan. Market places and groups of uninsured. Government involvement was just setting up a group and negotiating for that group.

It again enshrined corporate insurance companies as the gatekeepers of American Health. It also got lots of support from the Big Insurance companies who like now would not be threatened by a health care reform that went further. At that time it was a big issue and looked like reform was coming. The small Insurance companies were going to be put out of business and they fought hard against it.

Arguing that people have wanted or developed health care plans in the past is meaningless. It is all in the details. The republicans have also wanted what they call Health Care Reform for years. There reform plan was to cap liability and allow insurance companys to compete against state lines. This reform would not work, it would just lead to stuff like the credit card companies establishing themselves in the Dakotas with favorable laws as they seek suckers/customers across the nation. The fact that the Republican Plan is horrible does not mean that they have not sought it for years.

The Clinton Plan was big insurance company favorable as a regulatory measure just like the current system. Since it enshrined the Insurance Company's the left didn't like it. Since it had a government role, Republicans ran against it. No one liked it and so it lost.

In 2008 she ran on something very close to what we ended up with under Obama who ran against Obamacare and the mandate. Clinton was against a public government option and wanted a mandate to buy private insurance companies and a marketplace.

That's the history of the Clinton fight for Health Care Reform. It has always involved propping up rather than eliminating corporate Insurance Companys