The Clinton health care plan was a 1993 healthcare reform package proposed by the administration of Bill Clinton, then sitting President of the United States.

• clinton health care plan - Background
  • Picture of caption|Bill Clinton made health care reform one of the highest priorities of his administration. He asked the First Lady to chair the Task Force on National Health Care Reform.
• clinton health care plan - Debate
  • Picture of caption|Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop with former First Lady Hillary Clinton in the fall of 1993 promoting President Clinton's Health Security Act.
• clinton health care plan - Defeat
• clinton health care plan - Implications for the 2008 Presidential Election
  • In 2004, as a senator for the State of New York, Hillary Clinton argued in the The New York Times that the current health care system is unsustainable, and offered several solutions. ^{Hillary Clinton} The article conveyed a more moderate tone, including areas of agreement with one-time rival Newt Gingrich. In 2005, referring to her previous efforts at health care reform, Hillary Clinton said "I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done." By this time, Clinton had forged a relatively close relationship with Newt Gingrich working together on a military readiness panel for the Pentagon. ^"Newt_NYT" The relationship crossed over to health care, and Hillary and Newt became unlikely partners. Gingrich was quick to point out that "any Republican who thinks she's going to be easy to beat has a total amnesia about the history of the Clintons." In a series of public appearances, Gingrich expressed agreement with senator Clinton, including a collaboration for a health care bill to modernize medical record keeping. ^{[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/11/AR2005051101846.html "Gingrich Dana Milbank} Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf called the relationship "mutually beneficial," suggesting that the partnership helped each appeal to voters in the center. Again in 2007, she said, "I think that both the process and the plan were flawed. We were trying to do something that was very hard to do, and we made a lot of mistakes." ^{Robin Toner and Anne Kornblut} However, others have noted similarities between the Clinton Health Plan and Republican Mitt Romney's health care plan. ^{Michael F. Cannon}
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