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SPOTLIGHT: Hillary and healthcare: credit or blame?

November 9, 2007 — 7:59am ET
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As the presidential campaign gets hotter, and healthcare emerges as a central issue, candidates are beginning to attack Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's record as leader of her husband's failed health reform initiative. Of late her husband, former president Bill Clinton, has begun to suggest that he, not Hillary, deserves the blame for the problems with this effort. Rival presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, meanwhile, argues that Hillary shouldn't take credit for attempting early health system reforms if she won't accept blame. Article

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By Mary | Posted 5:18pm | November 10, 2007

Accusing Hillary Clinton for failing to implement health care reform is simply viewing the issue with a set of blinders. A major player in this equation is the insurance industry and its lobbyist; not to mention the lack of support from the republican party. At the time of the Clinton's proposal, not one state had a plan for universal coverage of its state population few had universal coverage for children. Since this time more medical groups have endorsed the concept of universal health insurance. It was not the Clintons but the system's inablity to endorse such a drastically socialized concept that insured its failure.

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