Does Senator Hillary Clinton have the experience and motivation to create a level of change of the health care system? In her health care forum webcast on October 18th, Clinton stated that there is a demand for changes in the current health care system out there by the doctors, nurses, business owners and common workers with whom she’s spoken.
On September 18th, a little over 1 month ago, Clinton announced her American Health Choices Plan, to the public during a high-profile speech at an Iowa hospital. She says there’s a demand to allow those who are satisfied with their current health insurance to continue using the doctors and hospitals they are happy with and she says there’s a demand to provide coverage to those Americans who don’t have health insurance.
But she also raises a very interesting point in this health care debate: It’s one thing to talk about health care reform and it’s another thing to get results. Clinton says during her eight years as First Lady and during her 6½ years in Congress, she knows that changing the health care system will not be easy. She says it will take a wide consensus of Americans in favor of her plan (which is a plan of universal coverage of which many candidates have similar viewpoints) and a lot of convincing of those in Congress to get such a plan enacted. She’s absolutely correct.
Does Clinton have such broad-based support in Congress and across the country to get her plan enacted into law? I really doubt it. Clinton has support as president among Democrats. But quite honestly is refuted by most Republicans in Congress and across the country. Her health care plan in 1993 as First Lady is largely viewed as a flop, and she will have a difficult time getting a health care plan enacted based on her past track record from her husband’s terms in office.
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