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Bill Clinton: GOP 'at it again' in health care debate
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Aug 03, 2009 02:41pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Peter Hamby |
| News Date | Monday, August 3, 2009 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON (CNN) – It's apparently deja vu all over again for former President Bill Clinton.
In a fundraising e-mail on behalf of congressional Democrats, Clinton is blasting Republicans for opposing President Obama's health care push, and reminding people of his administration's ultimately unsuccessful efforts to reform the industry 16 years ago.
"It seems like the 1993 health care debate all over again," Clinton writes in the e-mail, noting that Americans "urgently" needed health care reform as much then as they do now.
"But, just as I did in 1993, President Obama has run into a buzz saw of special interest opposition to his top domestic policy priority — health care reform," he says in the message. "He is facing off against some of the most powerful special interests in Washington who've launched a furious campaign to preserve the status quo."
"…Simply put, they're at it again."
Clinton accuses GOP congressmen of making a "political calculation" to misrepresent Obama's health care plan and to "attack Congressional Democrats with sound bites" instead of making quality health care affordable and accessible." |
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