Clinton vows boost to US health care

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Source: ap



Clinton vows boost to US health care

By HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 6 minutes ago

LEBANON, N.H. - Hillary Rodham Clinton promised Thursday that as president she would improve health care quality by raising standards for providers, educating patients and requiring insurers to reward innovation.

While rivals Barack Obama and John Edwards have proposed detailed health care overhaul plans, Clinton is taking an incremental approach. She started with a speech in June on reducing costs, followed by Thursday's address on quality, and will outline her plan for universal health care coverage next month.

"My order here is deliberate," said Clinton, a New York senator. "In order to forge a consensus on universal health care, we need to assure people that they will get the quality they expect at a cost they can afford."

"Too often, and in too many places, our health care system hurts us instead of helps us," Clinton said at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. "It hurts doctors, who aren't rewarded for providing the best care and are often punished for it financially. It hurts nurses who are asked to work longer hours, caring for more patients with fewer resources. And it hurts patients, who are forced to make complicated medical decisions without basic information about their conditions and options.".....more details at web site

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[saracat]

1. Boost what? it is effectually nonexistant!

[bobthedrummer]

2. That's another reason why I'm voting for Kucinich.

IMPEACH CHENEY FIRST.

[truedelphi]

17. Can I copy off your ballot?? If I sit close enough??

I'd hate to spell his name wrong - and it might be that we will need to write it in!!

[DavidDvorkin]

3. "... by requiring insurers ..."

No single-payer system from her, either.

That's the vital step that none of the top three seems willing or brave enough to take.

[pocoloco]

4. In other words business as usual.

Educate patients to not get fucking sick??

[kath]

28. yep, the only ones she really give a "boost" to are the fucking blood-sucking insurance companies.

[dipsydoodle]

5. The poor woman is demented

even Venezuala has got free healthcare.

She's doing no more than paying lip service to an issue by just mentioning it in a vague way.

[KaptBunnyPants]

6. Somebody help me out here.

"Raising standards for providers, educating patients and requiring insurers to reward innovation" - will any of this help me get medical care for my working but uninsured spouse? She's in serious pain already, so no insurance company will touch her and they sure as hell aren't going to help us with her pre-existing condition. What the hell are sick people supposed to do in this country? And what is Hillary's nothing of a plan going to do to change this? Should we just go somewhere and die, is that what Americans want?

[youngdem]

7. What a vanilla, bullshit, MEANINGLESS suggestion for reform

HILLARY IS SIMPLY A REPUKE.

Disgusting. Simply disgusting.

She sickens me.

THIS is going to be our nominee? THIS? FUCK!

The ONLY solution is single payer, a law making healthcare a RIGHT and dissolution of health insurance companies. EVERYTHING ELSE is window dressing to continue the status quo.

DISGUSTING Hillary.


Have you heard of Hillary's plan to refloat the Titanic? She wants to start by rearranging the deck chairs.

[Auggie]

10. You said it. She's been bought and paid for by the same scum.

[Deja Q]

15. Why can't she dig up her old healthcare proposal from the 1990s?

[area51]

25. Agreed.

HRC is nothing but nazi-lite. She doesn't believe that Americans deserve healthcare or jobs.

[Zhade]

34. Not a registered one, but just as heartless in this case.

NT!

[IndianaGreen]

36. Hillary's plan for the Titanic is to save all the first class passengers and fuck the rest!

Hillary does not represent our working class interests, only the interests of the elites and the big corporations.

[Malva Zebrina]

8. Lip service

that is all we hear from her. Who was she talking to? The pharma companies or the people of the United States, some 46 million who are not able to afford decent health care.

And from her bright red lips--

"read my lips"

and try to figure out what exactly is it she is talking about, besides cheap sound bites.

[sybylla]

9. Quality isn't my problem - affordability is

Jesus effing Christ on the cross! Can this woman use some of her money to buy a clue?

This is the equivalent of GHWB marveling at that fancy device at the grocery store that magically scanned each item and automatically recored the price - a fancy device that had been around for half a dozen years at least.

[bemildred]

11. Blah blah blah. Anything but tax-funded single payer is bullshit. nt

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

12. Another Demerit for Hillary,

At the rate she is going, I will be working against her, hammer and tongs.

Not only are people doing without vital healthcare because of costs, those same costs are killing jobs and making American corporations less competitive.

The woman seems to quite willing to throw all that over to the side, in the search for campaign bux.

How spineless. What naked ambition.

[Vinca]

13. Hillary's campaign called me the other day and I pretty much

told them "no single payer, universal healthcare, no vote." Guess we know which way she's headed.

[Guaranteed]

14. If it ain't single payer, it don't solve the problem. nt

[Mojorabbit]

16. You can raise standards all you want

if the patient can't afford the care it won't do diddly.

[superconnected]

18. some how I just don't trust the walmart lawyer to do anything but lip service.

Perhaps it's her record.

I should say former walmart lawyer. I don't actually know what role she plays in that corporation now.

[Imagevision]

19. Senator Clinton, can yopu possibly be more specific? - no, I didn't think so...!

[BattyDem]

20. Boost the quality of unaffordable care

That's brilliant, Hillary. :eyes:

HEY DEMS ... IT'S NOT THE QUALITY - IT'S THE FUCKING COST THAT'S KILLING US!!!! :grr: :grr: :grr:

[Zenlitened]

21. Clinton "will outline her plan for universal health care coverage next month."

Maybe we could hold the "Hillary stole my lunch money!" routine until then?

:shrug:

[dysfunctional press]

23. she's already on record saying that the insurance companies "have to be involved"...

and as long as her "plan" includes keeping the private-sector health insurance companies around for the masses is the WRONG plan.

[Hieronymus]

27. Absolutely .. she's getting mega-dollars from private insurance companies,

and pharmaceutical companies. Private Insurance needs to go. I'll never vote for Hillary in the primary. :eyes:
Edwards' plan will employ both, with the thought that people will drop private care when they see how well single payer works.

[pitohui]

22. whoa you guys are reading way too much into this

jeebus it's a campaign speech of course it's just meaningless "sounds nice" stuff

[madeline_con]

31. Except it doesn't sound nice. n/t

[BootinUp]

24. more regulation of the industry would be a step in the

right direction. Albeit a very small step

[Lydia Leftcoast]

26. I am unimpressed by anything that keeps the private insurance companies involved

:grr:

This is typical of her half-hearted, business-as-usual approach.

[kath]

29. Yes, the insurance companies have got to go -get 'em out of health care entirely,

let 'em sell life insurance, homeowner's, etc.

[killbotfactory]

30. She's stated that she wants universal healthcare coverage

by the end of her second term.

With such a glorious promise, how can we not support her? :eyes:

Meanwhile, as this is put on the backburner under President Clinton, 18,000 people a year will continue to needlessly die due to lack of health insurance.

[midnight armadillo]

32. I'm am staggered by her bold leadership on this issue

Truly, she's presidential material when it comes to one of the top issues facing the country.

Good thing Clinton's not influenced by all those health care industry donations.

[antigop]

33. "In order to forge a consensus..." oh, really? a "consensus" among whom? the insurance companies?

[IndianaGreen]

35. Hillary offers America a Republican plan of health care!

"Sicko" on her sorry corporatist ass!