Sally Quinn Wants Joe Biden And Hillary Clinton To 'Switch Jobs' For Reasons She Can't Explain
Friday, June 18, 2010
When the Clintons were trying to sell HillaryCare, BillClinton held nationwide televised townhalls. One was with a specially chosen audience of healthcare professionals -- San Diego hospital doctors and nurses.
Clinton explained the plan, which would've expanded HMOs control over more people's access to treatment. HMOs&PPOs were relatively new, middlemen, between patients & their healthcare providers. Most people in HMOs&PPOs hated them, only Clinton didn't know that.
With a big smile, Clinton said, "HMOs will be managing the care". Like that would be a good thing that everyone would love. The audience groaned, shook their heads. Clinton was thrown off by their reaction, but he quickly recovered & continued with his pitch as if it never happened. He seemed to honestly have no idea that HMOs were a problem for Americans.
Clinton had a valuable opportunity to make real change right then, go back to the drawing board, and include the American people instead of the corporations in health care reform. But as a DLCer, he danced with them that brung 'im (Big Insurance).
3 years later, "As Good As It Gets", with Helen Hunt & Jack Nicholson came out. There's a line in it where Hunt, who's been getting the runaround from her HMO about her little boy's treatment for asthma, says, "That b@stid HMO!" When that movie opened, in theaters across America, people stood up & cheered at that line.
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