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In chronological order this edition of a little Clinton history begins with a common theme from the illustrious career of Bill Clinton although the focus is really Hillary. But then, where you have one, at least in politics, you have the other.

President Denies Any Wrongdoing
By Ruth Marcus and Howard Schneider
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, December 23, 1993; Page A01

President Clinton yesterday responded to allegations that he used his security detail while governor of Arkansas to facilitate extramarital affairs by saying he “did not do anything wrong.” One trooper through his attorney denied reports that Clinton had offered him a job in exchange for his silence.

Then there is some early references to the Clinton 1993 Health Security Act. She said recently, meaning during this 2008 Presidential campaign that mistakes were made in hawking her original health care plan which was the flagship of the Clinton Administration during the 92 campaign and the first term. But as Hillary is known to do, her tactics were to beat the opposition into submission. Most likely the biggest reason for failure of her health care idea outside of the fact that the plan was fatally flawed all on its own. More on that after the next two excerpts.

Hillary Clinton Attacks Health Plans Offered by Conservative Democrats
By ROBERT PEAR,
Published: November 9, 1993

They are “the only ones that recognize the importance of achieving universal coverage,” Mrs. Clinton said in a meeting with 22 journalists at the White House.

There is some evidence of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing or unable to reach agreement. Not with members of Congress but between HRC and Bill. He courts conservative Democrats during his initial campaign and in the first term his wife drives a wedge in it. Do you suppose that had anything to do with killing any meaningful discussion on health care during the Clinton years. And how would HRC’s performance be different if allowed to once again enter the White House. What is a more probable reality is HRC would, no doubt, view being elected as a mandate from the American public to continue high risk and reckless adventures. Her marriage and political alliances alone have shown that in her case ambition trumps everything else, even common sense.

Hillary Clinton Takes Her Case to AMA
Leading Critic of Health Care System Draws Ovations From Doctors
Washington, D.C.
Dana Priest
Jun 14, 1993

It was unclear how Clinton’s criticism of managed care squared with the administration’s proposed health care plan which, at its core, rests on the belief that managed care is the most cost- effective way to provide medical care and would force many more patients and physicians into such organizations.

While it is fair to say that the AMA certainly has there own selfish reasons for resisting any change to the health care system, a key in the excerpt above is the resounding theme of ‘would force’ component of ClintonCare then and HillaryCare now. The package was rewritten by the same people that wrote the first one and the theme just noted gives support to the idea that socialist Hillary Rodham Clinton’s notion of health care is to control it with government regulation and strip market forces and personal choice from the system. Ending abusive and fraudulent practices in health care would be great but HRC’s answer is to dictate how that will be done with no guarantee or mechanism to ensure success. All that with staggering costs to the taxpayer.

This trip down memory lane concludes with references to the original 1993 Health Security Act offered by Clinton and company and an excerpt and link to a Heritage Foundation report on the topic.

H.R.3600
Title: To ensure individual and family security through health care coverage for all Americans in a manner that contains the rate of growth in health care costs and promotes responsible health insurance practices, to promote choice in health care, and to ensure and protect the health care of all Americans.
Sponsor: Rep Gephardt, Richard A. [MO-3] (introduced 11/20/1993) Cosponsors (103)
Related Bills: H.R.47, H.R.73, H.R.101, H.R.144, H.R.150, H.R.191, H.R.196, H.R.237, H.R.834, H.R.1192,
H.R.1572, H.R.1625, H.R.1765, H.R.1976, H.R.1989, H.R.2089, H.R.2367, H.R.2433, H.R.2624,
H.R.2640, H.R.2851, H.R.3080, H.R.3115, H.R.3222, H.R.3486, H.R.3698, H.R.3704, H.R.3918,
H.R.3955, H.R.4202, H.R.4378, H.R.4469, H.R.4519, H.R.4550, H.R.5258, S.1757, S.1775
Latest Major Action: 10/7/1994 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. H. Rept. 103-601, Part VII.TITLE(S): (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)

* OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED:
To ensure individual and family security through health care coverage for all Americans in a manner that contains the rate of growth in health care costs and promotes responsible health insurance practices, to promote choice in health care, and to ensure and protect the health care of all Americans.

If you just browse the above reference at the link provided the fear of God will set in when you consider that HRC has had a decade and a half to make her plan scarier than the original which on its own is material for a horror flick. The Heritage Foundation appraisal below is also enlightening.

But although Clinton has stressed the need for simplicity and freedom from bureaucracy, his legislation offers anything but that. The Administration followed a 239-page draft, leaked by Members of Congress in September 1993, with a 1,342-page bill, the “Health Security Act.” Emerging from the complex language of this huge bill is a massive top-down, bureaucratic command-and-control system that would meticulously govern virtually every aspect of the delivery and the financing of health care services for the American people. As The Economist of London observes, “Not since Franklin Roosevelt’s War Production Board has it been suggested that so large a part of the American economy should suddenly be brought under government control . 1

Despite all the talk of removing red tape and bureaucracy, personal choice and responsibility are tightly restricted in the Plan by boards and alliances, commissions and panels. Government regulation rather than market competition is the chief instrument to contain costs and deliver medical services.

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