Monica Lewinsky penned on op-ed Monday calling for a series of constitutional amendments, including age limits for elected officials and a ban on presidential self-pardons. In a piece in Vanity Fai…
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for the link!

    It was exactly what I thought it was, just forcing everyone to be on a plan not a true single payer program.

    Also, that link isn’t clear on her involvement…

    Appparently one of the people involved says Hilary didn’t really do anything? She lied and claimed it was her to shield Bill from the political consequences of it failing?

    In September 2007, former Clinton Administration senior health policy advisor Paul Starr published an article, “The Hillarycare Mythology”,[39] and he wrote that Bill, not Hillary, Clinton, was the driving force behind the plan at all stages of its origination and development; the task force headed by her quickly became useless and was not the primary force behind formulating the proposed policy; and “[n]ot only did the fiction of Hillary’s personal responsibility for the health plan fail to protect the president at the time, it has also now come back to haunt her in her own quest for the presidency.”[39]