Had any commentator predicted in 1994 that the health care industry would one day be an important financial contributor to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, that person would have been laughed out of the commentariat. After the fall of Hillarycare, everyone assumed that Mrs. Clinton and “the health care industrial complex” would be sworn enemies until one or [...]
The most worrisome thing about Hillary Clinton isn’t so much that she’s a nanny-state liberal or even that she’s hopelessly corrupt—it is her tendency to view the world in terms of good versus evil. As David Brooks writes in today’s NYT, it is this Manachaean world view that informs her rigid position on health insurance mandates. [...]
Watching Barack Obama bedevil Hillary is a real pleasure. It would not do, however, to become too drunk on schadenfruede. Like Hillary, Obama is a nanny state liberal whose proposed policies would do real damage to the U.S. health care system. In fact, Obama is in some ways even more dangerous than Hillary. If he emerges as the Democratic nominee for President, he will be harder to [...]
The title of Hillary Clinton’s health care plan is “American Health Choices,” but how much flexibility would she really permit? Well, to paraphrase her husband, that depends on what the meaning of “choice” is. On Sunday morning, Hillary gave us a glimpse of how she defines the word: Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing [...]
Paul Krugman is swiftboating Obama again. This time he has denounced the Illinois Senator for what he calls an “ugly mailer.” Here’s first page of Obama’s ”ugly” direct mail ad: Having trouble figuring out what’s so “ugly” about this? Well, most normal people would have the same problem. Krugman, on the other hand, detects the sinister influence of the Harry and Louise ad: [The Obama campaign] obviously [...]
Today is the 10th anniversary of Hillary Clinton’s assertion that her husband’s most damaging scandal was part of a dark plot cooked up by a malign cabal of right-wing evil doers: Look at the very people who are involved in this. They have popped up in other settings. The great story here for anybody willing to find it, write about it [...]
It is an article of faith among the advocates of socialized medicine that Hillarycare was throttled in its cradle by a deceptively innocuous-looking couple named Harry and Louise. “Harry and Louise” was, of course, the name of a TV ad deployed against the 1993 Clinton health care plan. Since we’re approaching the 10th birthday of the [...]
A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has made public some internal memoranda from Hillary’s 1993 health care task force, and it’s not hard to see why she becomes so annoyed when asked to release that paperwork. Among the items brought to light by Judicial Watch is a creepy memo that discusses the gathering of personal information on people with the temerity to oppose Her Majesty’s health care initiative: The [...]
The following chart shows political campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical industry to various politicians. Which presidential candidate has the least credibility when claiming a record of ”taking on” Big Pharma? [via Pharmalot]
The other day I wrote that Paul Krugman’s continuing attacks on Barack Obama prove that the Senator from Illinois must be doing someting right. But there’s more going on here than a dispute about health insurance mandates. Obama’s real crime can be found in this Newsweek poll: Among those most likely to attend the [Iowa] caucuses, Obama has moved [...]
