Post by Logan on Jan 22, 2016 19:50:44 GMT -6
Clinton: 'It was called HillaryCare before it was called Obamacare'
VINTON, Iowa, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Hillary Clinton has been taking increasing credit for the Affordable Care Act in a bid to discredit the healthcare policy of opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders.
At a campaign stop Thursday in Vinton, Iowa, she told supporters: "It was called Hillarycare before it was called Obamacare. I don't want to start over again, I don't want to rip up this accomplishment and begin this contentious debate all over again."
Bloomberg Politics reported Obamacare actually has stronger roots in Romneycare -- the healthcare reform initiated by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney during his time in the statehouse.
By contrast, the healthcare reform plan put forward by Clinton's husband in 1993 was far more overreaching than the Affordable Care Act, and in fact more similar to Sanders' plan for single-payer. The Clinton Health Security Act, as it was called, did not even make it to a vote in the Democratic-led Congress.
Continued at www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/01/22/Clinton-It-was-called-HillaryCare-before-it-was-called-Obamacare/6061453493152/?spt=hs&or=tn_us .
VINTON, Iowa, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Hillary Clinton has been taking increasing credit for the Affordable Care Act in a bid to discredit the healthcare policy of opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders.
At a campaign stop Thursday in Vinton, Iowa, she told supporters: "It was called Hillarycare before it was called Obamacare. I don't want to start over again, I don't want to rip up this accomplishment and begin this contentious debate all over again."
Bloomberg Politics reported Obamacare actually has stronger roots in Romneycare -- the healthcare reform initiated by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney during his time in the statehouse.
By contrast, the healthcare reform plan put forward by Clinton's husband in 1993 was far more overreaching than the Affordable Care Act, and in fact more similar to Sanders' plan for single-payer. The Clinton Health Security Act, as it was called, did not even make it to a vote in the Democratic-led Congress.
Continued at www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/01/22/Clinton-It-was-called-HillaryCare-before-it-was-called-Obamacare/6061453493152/?spt=hs&or=tn_us .