With Time Running Out in Iowa, Clinton Throws a Hail Mary

[Nanjeanne]

In other words - she's lying and attempting to scare people into voting for her.

From Mother Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/hillary-clinton-embraces-obamacare-hillarycare

Bolding mine

After her attempts to derail her rival Bernie Sanders' surging campaign by deriding his "Medicare-for-all" plan fell horribly flat, Hillary Clinton is changing tactics to try to win over voters ahead of Monday's caucuses here in Iowa, issuing a full-throated defense of Obamacare—and painting herself as its architect.

"Before it was called Obamacare, it was called Hillarycare," she told an audience at Grand View University in Des Moines on Friday. Clinton's rally at the university comes as Sanders has built a dominant lead among younger voters in the state. Clinton delivered a barnstormer on Friday in her bid to catch up among this demographic.

But much of Clinton's speech dwelled on history that many of the students in her audience are too young to remember. Clinton recalled one of her greatest successes, passing the Children's Health Care Program (CHIP) as first lady. After the Bill Clinton administration failed to pass health care reform, Clinton said, she turned to the plight of children without insurance.

Clinton recalled speaking to a man in Cleveland who couldn't find anyone to sell him insurance for his two daughters with cystic fibrosis. One insurance seller had told the man, "We don't insure burning houses."

Clinton warned her audience about the stakes for Obamacare in this election. "If they get a Republican president, the Affordable Care Act will be gone," she said. "They have promised, they have tried, it will end."

The former secretary of state said that she and Sanders "share the same goal. We want to get to universal coverage." But, she added, "I want to build on what we have achieved…He wants us to start over."

Clinton brought a woman on stage tell her family's health care story. The woman's daughter had been diagnosed with brain cancer, and her treatments were covered under the Affordable Care Act because she could stay on her mother's plan. Later, both mother and daughter, both with pre-existing conditions, could purchase health care on the exchange. Obamacare "was a great gift to our family," the woman said.

Implicit in the narrative Clinton was trying to build: Elect me, or it could go away.

Shame on her. Sanders has been a proponant of universal healthcare as a RIGHT for all people. There's no chance in hell that if Sanders is elected President he would do away with the ACA until there was something better to replace it with. This is a man who only Hillary Clinton can dare to suggest that he would do away with healthcare for a woman with brain cancer. Disgraceful. Argue what can and cannot be done. There's truth in that. But using these Republican scare tactics - I have no words. Just major disappointment.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. That is just Hillary being her true self.

It breaks through the facade often enough to remind people that she will say and do anything to get elected.

No question that she is bright. Except that her best talents lie in gathering money for herself. I cannot recall any serious piece of legislation that she wrote or co-sponsored as a senator. But I clearly recall her performance art bull when she asked that long question of Don Rumsfeld, then pointedly ignored his response. Arrogance only goes so far. Ask Trump.

[Skwmom]

2. I've always thought she had to resent it for not having her name.

[Health Wagon]

3. Really? Obamacare is a Republican version of the Heritage Care plan that came out

in direct opposition of HillaryCare.

Yes, I was there, I remember the press release from Donna Shalala about it in DC when it was first proposed.

[Paulie]

4. Taking credit for Heritage Foundation / RmoneyCare

[Betty Karlson]

5. K&R for truth. eom

[Matariki]

6. I think she means it was called Romneycare

[FlatBaroque]

7. It will all be over soon. Either she will lose, or be indicted, or both

Good riddance.

[Qutzupalotl]

8. Let me "correct the record":

"Before it was called Obamacare, something completely different was called Hillarycare, and it died in committee. Then, two decades later, we got the Heritage Foundation's counterproposal instead, and you'll like it!"

[winter is coming]

9. Anybody remember the thread last week where we were asked to guess about Iowa?

This one? http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1059716

I opted for a 16-point spread, not because I'm H.A. Goodman's evil twin, but because I expected the Clinton campaign would go batshit negative on Bernie in the leadup to Iowa, and that it would backfire, because HRC did that shit in '08 and it cost her votes. And here's Camp Weathervane, busily engaged in sawing off its own branch again.

[pangaia]

10. The woman makes me sick.

[Armstead]

11. What is baffling is why she still supports private insurance after THIS.......

Clinton recalled speaking to a man in Cleveland who couldn't find anyone to sell him insurance for his two daughters with cystic fibrosis. One insurance seller had told the man, "We don't insure burning houses."

That is private insurance in a nutshell. And she still supports it?