Hillary Clinton's Health Care Plan

Monday, September 17, 2007

Hillary Clinton released her health care plan today. My hopes were very high as far as where she would come out on this issue because I think it's one of the most important ones facing America and I know that the candidates that I most strongly support and who have come out with the best health care plans so far (Mike Gravel & Dennis Kucinich) do not have a good shot at becoming president. Clinton does. And that's what makes her health care plan so important. She was at the forefront of the health care reform of 1993 that was killed by the health insurance industry but she has backed off her stance of the time significantly since then (see Sicko, no really - see Sicko.)

While the plan she released today did not live up to my highest hopes (see Dennis Kucinich) it is better than I was expecting. Read a summary of her plan here.

The most exciting part is probably the first part (no coincidence, eh?)

"The Same Choice of Health Plan Options that Members of Congress Receive: Americans can keep their existing coverage or access the same menu of quality private insurance options that their Members of Congress receive through a new Health Choices Menu, established without any new bureaucracy as part of the Federal Employee Health Benefit Program (FEHBP). In addition to the broad array of private options that Americans can choose from, they will be offered the choice of a public plan option similar to Medicare."

Clinton is having a live web cast tomorrow night (9/18) at 8 PM Eastern Time to discuss her health care plan.