Hillary Clinton's healthcare 2.0

She has a pitch-perfect new ad and a grand plan for healthcare reform. How much will it matter in the campaign -- and beyond?

In political terms, her new healthcare plan plays against type. Rather than being timid and incremental, her proposals are as ambitious as those offered by John Edwards, who was the first major Democrat to offer a plan for universal coverage. (Dennis Kucinich remains a voice in the wilderness with his call for a government-run single-payer plan.) Like Edwards, she would legally mandate that uninsured individuals obtain health coverage -- and would provide ... Full Story »

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Francis Scalzi
3.1
by Francis Scalzi - Oct. 1, 2008

The headline seems inviting; i.e., to really learn something about Hillary's Clinton's healthcare plan. But no, it opines instead on the political strategy, election day desirability, and possible political consequences for her campaign as compared to those of her fellow Democratic candidates. It is not very informative, but likely because the Clinton campaign has not been very detailed about her healthcare plan. Ezra Klein's articles, reported on NewsTrust (see below), are a good bit better at explaining important aspects of the plan. While an opinion piece, this one does, however, give us one kernel of penetrating truth: Joe Biden is right; not one of the candidates has laid out a clear, reasonably detailed, and informative healthplan (with the possilible exception of Dennis Kucinich, to whom the author claims, no one is listening).

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