Clinton Says Obama’s Health Plan Leaves People “Out in the Cold”
(CBS)
From CBS News’ Fernando Suarez:
YORK, PA. -- Hillary Clinton took issue with a new television ad her Democratic opponent is running in Pennsylvania that criticizes her health care plan. Clinton stood at the center of Beaver Street in downtown York and told the crowd, "I just heard that my opponent has put out an ad attacking my health care plan, which is kind of curious because my plan covers everybody, and his leaves out 15 million people, just leaves them out in the cold.”
Barack Obama’s new ad takes issue with the fact that Clinton requires all Americans to have health insurance, which she plans to enforce that through mandates. Clinton, though, has yet to say what the penalty will be for those who do not buy into her plan.
Although the attacks from Obama in the ad are not new, it is the first time he has put them in an ad running in this state. Clinton told supporters at the rally that health care requires real solutions and that she is the person who can offer them. “Instead of attacking the problem he chooses to attack my solution,” Clinton said. “I don’t think that we can just make speeches about this, we have to have a plan that we can actually implement that will provide quality affordable health care, that's what I have been fighting for for 15 years and that’s what I will try for as your president."
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Posted by kenbomc at 08:16 PM : Apr 19, 2008
Actually she''s solely responsible for pushing four piece of substantive legislation for the people of the US in her terms.
What has Barak Obama done? Named a post office and pass legislation to support efforts in the Congo!
Give us a break!
Obama''s is totally tax dependent and hasn''t a chance in hell of even getting out of committee.
Yeah right... best option for health care. HRC will penalize people for not obtaining it even if they cannot afford it. HRC would enforce a mandate. Making it illegal to not obtain her health plan.
Obama would keep cost low for people to afford it. He will not penalize people for not obtaining it. His makes more sense.
New commercial for Obama sighting HRC''s 11th hour smear attacks; http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/pa_exactly_ad
All HRC has been doing for the last 15 years is fight. Obama will bring people together to get this done. The only thing Hillary has accomplished is proving she cannot get this health care plan passed.
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by greenfun
April 20, 2008 5:38 PM EDT
- Obama opposed single-payer bill HR676, sponsored by Congressmen Dennis Kucinich and John Conyers in 2006, although at least 75 members of Congress supported it. Single-payer works by trying to diminish the administrative costs that comprise somewhere around one-third of every health care dollar spent, by eliminating the duplicative nature of these services. The expected $300 billion in annual savings such a system would produce would go directly to cover the uninsured and expand coverage to those who already have insurance, according to Dr. Stephanie Woolhandler, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program.
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See all 11 CommentsObama''s own plan has been widely criticized for leaving health care industry administrative costs in place and for allowing millions of people to remain uninsured. "Sicko" filmmaker Michael Moore ridiculed it saying, "Obama wants the insurance companies to help us develop a new health care plan-the same companies who have created the mess in the first place."