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Hillary Clinton version 2016 is apparently very comfortable attacking a fellow Democrat’s health care plan

   January 13, 2016

Here’s Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2008 talking about Barack Obama’s attacks on her health care reform plan.

Fast-forward to this year’s presidential campaign and we’ve got the answer to the question Hillary Clinton asked in 2008, and the answer comes courtesy of Clinton herself, as well as her daughter Chelsea.

Here’s what Hillary Clinton had to say in her attack on Bernie Sanders’ universal health care proposal earlier this week.

“His plan would take Medicare and Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the Affordable Care Act health care insurance and private employer health insurance and he would take that all together and send health insurance to the states, turning over your and my health insurance to governors,” Clinton said. “We had enough of a fight to get to the Affordable Care Act. So I don’t want to rip it up and start over.”

Clinton’s attack on Sanders’ healthcare plan has been debunked as being false, but that hasn’t stopped Chelsea Clinton from joining in on the attacks on Bernie Sanders’ healthcare plan on behalf of her mother’s campaign.

In response to attacks on his proposal for a single-payer universal healthcare system, the Sanders campaign tweeted thusly:

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  1. True universal health care is comes from a single-payer approach to health insurance. The Sanders photo with Hillary Clinton was in 1993 when both were thinking along the same lines of health care reform. Both liked the single-payer idea.

    The ACA as legislated is not a single-payer plan that does not result in universal health care. Some 11-12% are still uninsured, mainly due to the cost of private insurance.

    Polls have shown that voters are still wanting the single-payer plan (for instance, see http://ilsinglepayer.org/kaiser-poll-democrats-and-independents-overwhelmingly-support-single-payer). Democrats overwhelmingly want it, and many Independants do, as well. Republicans overwhelmingly do not.

    Sanders still wants universal health care, while 2016 Clinton now adheres to status quo.

    Let’s hope all the policy differences can be clearly articulated at this next debate, broadcast on NBC this Sunday night, January 17th, at 8:00 pm.

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