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have an agreement with the Insurance industry (ACLI, the top 20, and the top 5 health insurance companies) to go to universal life - but once they saw him in trouble over watergate - all bets were off.
Again in 93-94, Hillary worked hard to get insurance industry OK for the new health plan - and she got it - and then they stabbed her in the back once the plan was released. The "complicated" Hillarycare was 60% LESS complicated than the current system - but that factoid never got media print or air time. Indeed we (yes - while I did not cheer, these were my buddies) were crowing about how we had gotten a Bill Clinton committment to stop universal life, in return for the HMO approach being not opposed by the industry.
The Dem thinking was to not get burned by huge corporate money being used against you - and you can see how it pays to be trusting of the corporate promises if you are a Democratic Party member.
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