The President's Health Security Plan: The Complete Draft and Final Reports of the White House Domestic Policy Council - Softcover

The President's Health Security Plan; The Complete Draft and Final Reports of the White House Domestic Policy Council

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8 inches. xviii, 165, xiv, 284 pages. Boxes. Illustrations. Letter from President William Jefferson Clinton. Foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Stick residue on back cover. The Clinton health care plan was a 1993 healthcare reform package proposed by the administration of President Bill Clinton and closely associated with the chair of the task force devising the plan, First Lady of the United States Hillary Clinton. President Clinton had campaigned heavily on health care in the 1992 presidential election. The task force was created in January 1993, but its own processes were somewhat controversial and drew litigation. Its goal was to come up with a comprehensive plan to provide universal health care for all Americans, which was to be a cornerstone of the administration's first-term agenda. The president delivered a major health care speech to the US Congress in September 1993. During his speech he proposed an enforced mandate for employers to provide health insurance coverage to all of their employees. Opposition to the plan was heavy from conservatives, libertarians, and the health insurance industry. The industry produced a highly effective television ad, "Harry and Louise", in an effort to rally public support against the plan. Instead of uniting behind the original proposal, many Democrats offered a number of competing plans of their own. Hillary Clinton was drafted by the Clinton Administration to head a new Task Force and sell the plan to the American people, which ultimately backfired amid the barrage from the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries and considerably diminished her own popularity. On September 26, 1994, the final compromise Democratic bill was declared dead by Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell. The defeat was embarrassing for the administration, emboldened Republicans, and contributed to the notion that Hillary Clinton was a "big-government liberal" as decried by conservative opponents. The 1994 mid-term election became, in the opinion of one media observer, a "referendum on big government - Hillary Clinton had launched a massive health-care reform plan that wound up strangled by its own red tape". In that 1994 election, the Republican revolution, led by Newt Gingrich, gave the GOP control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate for the first time since the 83rd Congress of 1953-1954, ending prospects for a Clinton-sponsored health care overhaul. Artikel-Nr. 81432

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