Hillary Clinton to Present Health Care Plan

[Capt. Obvious]

Hillary Rodham Clinton will present on Tuesday a multipart plan to decrease the cost of prescription medication, as part of a series of campaign events this week devoted to health care policy and how she plans to “build on the progress” made under the Affordable Care Act.

The prescription drug plan, which Mrs. Clinton will outline at a town hall event in Des Moines, includes regulating the percentage of revenues pharmaceutical companies must spend on research and development, instituting a cap on the cost of many out-of-pocket drugs for chronic and serious health conditions, and allocating additional funding to put more generic versions of drugs on the market.

On Wednesday, Mrs. Clinton is expected to present a plan to rein in the cost of nonpharmaceutical health care expenses.

“All of the Republican candidates for president are determined to get rid of the Affordable Care Act,” Mrs. Clinton told a crowd in Baton Rouge, La., on Monday. “I’m not going to let them tear up that law, kick 16 million people off health coverage.”

But Mrs. Clinton has also consistently said that the health care act, President Obama’s signature policy achievement, is flawed and that if elected she would work out the kinks. “My attitude is, look, we’ve got some good things done, let’s preserve what works and fix what doesn’t,” she told voters in New Hampshire last week.

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NYTimes

[NCTraveler]

2. Taking it to the republicans and forcing them to talk about this in a way they don't want to.

This is deeper than "we want to repeal it." Huge distinction between the two partys and their ideas no longer sit well with the American people. They sounded acceptable to the masses decades ago but are now considered hateful by the masses. We win every time this is discussed on the trail. It is one of the reason verbiage is so important at all times. We have done a great job at swaying the American people and getting them on board with more drastic changes to the healthcare/insurance system. We, along with the thoughts of a majority of Americans, are moving in the right direction here.

[Ino]

3. Link says "page not found" (nt)

[66 dmhlt]

5. Link works fine for me

[CanadaexPat]

4. The 90's called, they want their headline back.

[nichomachus]

6. Hillary -- day late, dollar short

Yet again

[riversedge]

9. A day late doing What?? she has been laying out her plans since she entered this

race.

[jeff47]

10. Sure! That's why it's a big deal that she's putting out this plan today!!

Oh wait....

[riversedge]

11. You are not interested in a discussion. bye

[nichomachus]

12. When did she "lay it out?" n/t

[Skwmom]

7. Please call it what it is - a Health Insurance Act. n/t

[MindfulOne]

8. Aim Low, Madam Secretary.

Aim low...

[nichomachus]

13. Oh, give her a break

It's hard coming up with a plan to fight a problem you just discovered yesterday -- when it's been happening for decades.

Big Pharma price gouging is a long-term problem.

Hillary did not address it in her failed healthcare plan.

In 2003, she voted to ban the government from negotiating with drug companies.

None of the gouging has been a secret. There have been lawsuits over it. Where was Hillary -- MIA.

Now that her campaign is faltering and people are looking elsewhere, she all of a sudden "discovers" the problem and spends all night with her handlers to come up with a bucket of weak sauce.

[MindfulOne]

14. The candidate relies on her contrasting with the GOP selections, that's not very hard.

The candidate does not, however, contrast favorably with a Bernie Sanders.

Let's see, little fixes on pharma or a wholesale single payer medicare for all.

There's no competition.