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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (206554)	10/19/2006 6:24:42 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"I admit I do not understand why Clinton or any other Democrat has not brought in any national Healthcare scheme. " Where have you BEEN, Dumbo? en.wikipedia.org "In 1993, United States President Bill Clinton's administration proposed a significant health care reform package. Clinton had campaigned heavily on health care in the 1992 election, and he quickly set up a task force, headed by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, to come up with a comprehensive plan to provide universal health care for all Americans, which was to be a cornerstone of the administration's first-term agenda. The result, announced by President Clinton in an address to Congress on September 22, 1993, was a complex and complicated proposal running more than 1,000 pages, the core element of which was an enforced mandate for employers to provide health insurance coverage to all of their employees through competitive but closely-regulated health maintenance organizations (HMOs). The plan, referred to derisively as "Hillary Care" by some, was initially well-received by liberal political leaders and most Americans who said health care was the most important issue facing the country. At its introduction, the plan seemed likely to pass through the Democratic-controlled Congress. Conservatives, libertarians, and the insurance industry, however, staged an effective and well-organized campaign opposing Clinton's "Health Security" plan and criticized it as being overly bureaucratic and restrictive of patient choice. The effort included extensive advertising criticizing the plan, including the famous Harry and Louise ad, which depicted a middle-class couple despairing over the plan's bureaucratic nature. (The advertisements might have been particularly effective because they characterized Clinton's plan as being against middle class values.) Meanwhile, Democrats, instead of uniting behind the President's original proposal, offered a number of competing plans of their own. Some criticized the plan from the left, preferring a Canadian-style single payer system."

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (206554)	10/19/2006 6:56:18 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

1. Ichy you hate Canada. It's ok, you do not have to love your country. Many do not. 2. Republicans do not wish to make the government smaller. Republicans make the government LARGER as in 50% increase in the National Debt in just 5 years. That is LARGER. 3. LARGER is bigger than SMALLER even in Canada. 4. Clinton improved the budget every year he was in office after inheriting messes from Reagan-BushI. Democrats were on target to get rid of the debt in a decade or so which was giving Greenspan fainting spells. 5. Republicans, in the guide of Bush II reversed the efficient-government, paygo, pay down the deficit, improve the economy, welfare-to-actual work (aka jobs), healthcare for all, Pax Clintonia and destroyed every last bit of it. 6. You are so stupid Ichy. I'm starting to get hives just reading your posts.