Obama Methodist Hillary Clinton Covered Up Ambassador #39;s Paedophilia - 2013
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Obama & Methodist Hillary Clinton Covered Up Ambassador's Paedophilia - 2013 - Video
Hillary Clinton: My future is still #39;TBD #39; - video
The former secretary of state is keeping quiet when it comes to a possible run for the White House in 2016. In a Q A session at the University of Miami, she ...
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a baby step into the radioactive politics of Obamacare on Wednesday, using a pair of speeches in Florida to stake out a nuanced defense of the law that Republicans have used to criticize President Obama for years - and one they hope to deploy against Clinton if she runs for president in 2016.
"I think we are on the right track in many respects but I would be the first to say if things aren't working then we need people of good faith to come together and make evidence-based changes," Clinton said during a speech in Orlando before the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, according to CNN.
She singled out Obamacare's impact on small businesses for review, particularly the law's requirement for businesses with over 50 employees to provide health coverage to those employees. But she embraced certain aspects of the law, including the provision of free preventive care and the retention of young adults on their parents' insurance plan through the age of 26.
"Part of the challenge is to clear away all the smoke and to try to figure out what is working and what isn't," Clinton explained, blaming "misinformation" from the law's opponents for much of the confusion. "What do we need to do to try to fix this? Because it would be a great tragedy, in my opinion, to take away what has now been provided...I don't think we should throw the baby out with the bath."
Republicans, whose criticism of Obamacare shows no signs of abating, quickly slammed Clinton for her defense of the controversial law.
"We're glad to hear Hillary is embracing Obamacare and look forward to her campaigning on it in 2016," the Republican National Committee said in an email shortly after Clinton spoke.
Earlier on Wednesday, the RNC previewed Clinton's remarks with another email: "Even as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was a strong supporter of Obamacare." That charge stemmed from a new book, "HRC," that says Clinton played a "pivotal, if underappreciated" role in corralling support for Mr. Obama's proposed health-care reforms among his cabinet members.
Clinton is no newcomer to the tricky politics of health care reform: During the 1990s, when her husband, Bill Clinton, was president, the then-first lady led an unsuccessful attempt to overhaul America's health-care system. Her proposal at the time came to be known as "Hillarycare."
After her address in Orlando, Clinton traveled to the University of Miami to speak to over 6,000 students and faculty members, urging young people in the audience to sign up for insurance.
"You can't sit here today and tell me for sure you won't have a car accident, you won't have a slip or a fall, you won't have some kind of disease that you never thought you would ever be stricken by," she warned, according to the Washington Post. "You just don't know - nobody knows."
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Newly released memos from Bill Clintons White House yearssketch a portrait of then-First Lady Hillary Clintons troubled attempt to win support for the administrationshealthcare plan showing her deeply steeped in the details as she sought to reassure fearful members of Congress.
The documents, which were carefully reviewed and selected by representatives from the Clinton and Obama administrations, were among the first in a release that is expectedto include at least 25,000 pages over the next two weeks. The documents were sealed for more than 12 years under the Presidential Records Act, which allows certain memos to be withheld if they contain advice or information related to federal appointments.
New transcripts in the first batch include Hillary Clintons private meetings with Senate and House Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill in early September of 1993 about two weeks before President Clinton told the nation it was time to fix a healthcare system that was badly brokenand guarantee healthcare that can never be taken away. His wife was placed in charge of the effort, a massively complex undertaking that foreshadowed the Obama administration's more recent tackling of the issue.
In remarks behind closed doors, the first lady outlined the administrations plan which ultimately collapsed and urged members to study the numbers carefully so they would see that it was not an Alice in Wonderland scenario. She noted that she had met with Republicans to solicit their ideas, and said the administration had done modeling relentlessly, day after day after day subjecting financial assumptions to actuaries and accountants inside and outside the government.
If weve messed up somewhere we need to know about it, Clinton said, because we have tried to double, triple, quadruple check ourselves all the way down the line.
In a meeting where one participant complained about the veil of secrecy surrounding the plan and the difficulty lawmakers had in accessing even a 250-page outline that had been leaked to the Washington Post and the New York Times, the first lady told Democratic leaders that the administration was very serious about consultations.
I think that there will be, very honestly, a period of adjustment, a period of setting, before any of you will feel comfortable with all the features of this, because we are really approaching the health care system in a different way, Clinton said in one Capitol Hill meeting. She noted it had taken six months for the administration to understand how the features of the nations healthcare system and its financing worked, as well as the tradeoffs of the approach it was pursuing.
I think that, unfortunately, in the glare of the public political process, we may not have as much time as we need for that kind of thoughtful reflection and research, she said, but I think we have to resist as hard as possible any tendency to leap to judgment until at least the entire framework is laid out and the way things work together is understood.
She explained in detail the administration's controversial plan to cap the rate of growth of Medicaid and Medicare and urged Democratic allies to present those moves as part of an overall program that would improve the level of care for beneficiaries. And she acknowledged that the political hot button for members would be the proposed requirements that employers and employees contribute to their healthcare.
Im not going to underestimate the political battle that will ensue because of this, she said.
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Newly released memos show Hillary Clinton's 1993 healthcare struggle
By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Hillary Clinton* gave two back-to-back speeches on health care in the 2016** swing state of Florida. The later one, at the University of Miami, was visionary (I think the word is) and a sales pitch to UM students to sign up for insurance. The earlier one, the keynote at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference, is more interesting. Sadly, as of this writing an official transcript is not online, and reporters were not allowed in the hall (!). So Ill have to cobble the Clinton* quotes together from multiple sources.
Heres what I think is the key section (which is not the same as what the press thinks is the key section). From Health Populis live transcript in the hall:
[CLINTON:] I am a believer in the idea that good data helps to make good decisions. Its true in life.
Its important to be guided by evidence about what works and what doesntnot ideology or personally held beliefs.
Unfortunately weve seen too often in Washington recently that many of our public debates take place in an evidence-free zone. (Applause) That is bad news for anyone who wants to get something done who would rather choose common ground over scorched earth. (Applause)
For example, the hyper politicized debate from the beginning has been often more about ideology than about data and what we can learn. The scare tactics have not necessarily helped us understand how best to improve care, lower costs, expand coveragebut to keep what works at the same time. Thats why we need what youre doing so badly. To get back to evidence-based policy debates. And to use that when we need to fix things.
OK, lets talk about evidence-based just for one second. As I wrote:
The key point to remember in all discussions of ObamaCare is that neither it, nor indeed the entire private health insurance industry, should exist. They are rent-seeking parasites, economic tapeworms. One does not improve a tapeworm; one removes it.
To understand this simple point, all we need to do is look north to Canada, where we see a single payer system they call it Medicare delivering equal or better health outcomes at dramatically lower cost, without a health insurance industry, and without ObamaCares bizarre, mystifying, and above all unfair Rube Goldberg-esque complexity. In fact, if wed passed HR 676 in 2009, we would have saved hundreds of billions of dollars by now (more than enough to cover everyone) and thousands of lives, though ObamaCare apologists dont like to talk much about the excess deaths that ObamaCares achingly slow rollout caused and is still causing.
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Hillary Clinton, Pre-2016, Gingerly Addresses ObamaCare Debacle, Supports Evidence-Based Changes