Michelle:
Hillary's Health Care Plan was a ruse of duplicity and government mismanagement.
Participation was compulsory:
Individual citizens who failed to pay their share to the new system would have been subject to fines of $5,000 or three times the amount owed, whichever was greater. (G. Arnett, "Cops and Doctors," Washington Post, 12/19/93)
Zero incentive for doctors to provide accelerated care:
What is today considered normal patient advocacy would have become a federal crime under the Clinton Plan. For example, if a doctor tried to get an early date for surgery for a sick patient in his health plan, and took "anything of value," he would have been subject to stiff fines and a 15-year jail term. (G. Arnett, Washington Post, 12/19/93)
Zero accountability from the bureaucrats:
The Task Force members, hand-picked by Mrs. Clinton and a liberal planner, Ira Magaziner, proceeded to draft a health care bill in secrecy ,without regard to federal open meetings and open records laws.
The ruse is discovered:
Following a lawsuit, and after vigorous and protracted opposition by the Clinton White House, a federal judge ruled that Mrs. Clinton violated federal open meetings laws, and ordered that records of the secret sessions be made public.
And no wonder they wanted to keep it a deep dark secret:
The Clinton Health Task Force vastly over-spent its budget of $100,000, eventually costing taxpayers $13.8 million (GAO Report)
It's not Hillary who scares us: it's the double-dealing, behind-the-scenes, we're-above-the-law attitude that she exhibits from her perch of usurped power. She plagiarized her "It Takes A Village" book, she wrote a newspaper column that was identical to one by another columnist, she says she learned to trade cattle futures by "reading the Wall Street Journal," and she claims to have tried to join the Marines. She blames her husband's problems on the mythical "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" and later the fact that they're from Arkansas (even though she's from Illinois). She claims to have been named for Sir Edmund Hillary, even though she was born six years before he climbed Mt. Everest.
She, like her husband, is an accomplished liar and manipulator.
But don't take my word for it. Wait for history to record the Clinton legacy.
RS
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