Hillary wants another go at health care reforms

May 28 2007

When Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke to a packed auditorium full of medical students and doctors at George Washington University, she proposed a new health care plan.

As part of her presidential campaign Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, has a health care plan aimed at reducing health care spending.

This is not her first attempt as 14 years ago, as the then first lady, Hillary Clinton had little success tackling the health care system, and she says she is very aware of that fact and learned some valuable lessons from that experience.

Clinton has outlined a seven-point agenda designed to lower premiums and take out the ineptitude of medical bureaucracy.

She says she recognises that reform cannot be achieved without the participation and commitment of healthcare providers, employers, employees and citizens who pay for and depend upon healthcare services.

Clinton's proposal promises to rein in health care spending but she has also introduced legislation into Congress that would see all children become insured.

According to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey conducted recently, health care is a very important issue for voters and second only to the war in Iraq.

Clinton says health care costs are out of control and evidence of this can be found in the fact that premium costs have virtually doubled, and 16% of America's gross domestic product is spent on health care, the administrative costs of which are the highest in the world.

Clinton asks why, when so much is spent, does the World Health Organization rank the United States 31st in life expectancy and 40th in child mortality, worse than Cuba and Croatia?

Clinton says her reforms will ensure all Americans have access to comprehensive preventive care, which will, in the long, run save money.