Sirota writes: "While saying that single-payer can never pass in the US,
Clinton has vacuumed in roughly $13.2 million from sources in the health
sector, according to data compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive
Politics."
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton visits Dimond Hill Farm in
Hopkinton, New Hampshire, July 28, 2015. (photo: Brian Snyder/Reuters)
Hillary Clinton Gets $13 Million From Health Industry, Now Says Single-Payer
Will "Never, Ever Come to Pass"
By David Sirota, International Business Times
01 February 16
Closing out her Iowa campaign, Hillary Clinton on Friday declared that the
Medicare-for-all proposal pushed by her Democratic primary opponent and many
liberal groups will "never, ever come to pass." The statement came weeks
after a new poll showed most Americans support the idea. Her declaration was
a reversal of her position two decades ago - which came before she received
millions of dollars of campaign cash from the health industry.
Clinton's comments, which were made during an appearance at Grand View
University in Iowa, were aimed at Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who has
long championed the kind of government administered health care system used
by many major industrialized nations. Of Sanders' proposal, Clinton said on
Friday: "People who have health emergencies can't wait for us to have a
theoretical debate about some better idea that will never, ever come to
pass." The Kaiser Family Foundation's December 2015 tracking poll found that
58 percent of Americans support expanding Medicare to cover everyone.
Clinton slammed the push for single-payer even though some of the major
labor unions supporting her campaign have long cited that goal as a top
legislative priority. Her comments also contrast with what she herself said
in 1994 during remarks to the Lehman Brothers Health Corporation. As CBS
News notes, back then she declared that a single-payer system was all but
inevitable, saying: "I believe that by the year 2000 we will have a single
payer system. I don't think it's - I don't even think it's a close call
politically ... it will be such a huge popular issue in the sense of
populist issue that even if it's not successful the first time, it will
eventually be."
Between that declaration and her now saying single-payer can never pass,
Clinton has vacuumed in roughly $13.2 million from sources in the health
sector, according to data compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive
Politics. That includes $11.2 million from the sector when Clinton was a
senator and $2 million from health industry sources during her 2016
presidential campaign. In a 2006 story about her relationship with the
health industry, the New York Times noted that during her Senate reelection
campaign, she was "receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign
contributions from doctors, hospitals, drug manufacturers and insurers" and
had become "the No. 2 recipient of donations from the industry." The
Intercept also reported that from 2013 to 2015, Clinton received more than
$2.8 million in speaking fees from the health industry.
Clinton and her daughter Chelsea have suggested that Sanders plan would
dismantle the Affordable Care Act, which Sanders voted for. Sanders has
disputed that and has also disputed that passing a single-payer system is
impossible if a president pushes it.
In 2014, that view got a boost from then-Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin. He told the
Hill newspaper that year that when it came to creating a Medicare-for-all
system or a government-run health care option in the Affordable Care Act,
"We had the votes in '09. We had a huge majority in the House, we had 60
votes in the Senate."
Democrats, however, are not expected to have such numbers in Congress after
the 2016 election.
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Hillary Clinton Gets $13 Million From Health Industry, Now Says Single-Payer
Will "Never, Ever Come to Pass"
By David Sirota, International Business Times
01 February 16
losing out her Iowa campaign, Hillary Clinton on Friday declared that the
Medicare-for-all proposal pushed by her Democratic primary opponent and many
liberal groups will "never, ever come to pass." The statement came weeks
after a new poll showed most Americans support the idea. Her declaration was
a reversal of her position two decades ago - which came before she received
millions of dollars of campaign cash from the health industry.
Clinton's comments, which were made during an appearance at Grand View
University in Iowa, were aimed at Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who has
long championed the kind of government administered health care system used
by many major industrialized nations. Of Sanders' proposal, Clinton said on
Friday: "People who have health emergencies can't wait for us to have a
theoretical debate about some better idea that will never, ever come to
pass." The Kaiser Family Foundation's December 2015 tracking poll found that
58 percent of Americans support expanding Medicare to cover everyone.
Clinton slammed the push for single-payer even though some of the major
labor unions supporting her campaign have long cited that goal as a top
legislative priority. Her comments also contrast with what she herself said
in 1994 during remarks to the Lehman Brothers Health Corporation. As CBS
News notes, back then she declared that a single-payer system was all but
inevitable, saying: "I believe that by the year 2000 we will have a single
payer system. I don't think it's - I don't even think it's a close call
politically ... it will be such a huge popular issue in the sense of
populist issue that even if it's not successful the first time, it will
eventually be."
Between that declaration and her now saying single-payer can never pass,
Clinton has vacuumed in roughly $13.2 million from sources in the health
sector, according to data compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive
Politics. That includes $11.2 million from the sector when Clinton was a
senator and $2 million from health industry sources during her 2016
presidential campaign. In a 2006 story about her relationship with the
health industry, the New York Times noted that during her Senate reelection
campaign, she was "receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign
contributions from doctors, hospitals, drug manufacturers and insurers" and
had become "the No. 2 recipient of donations from the industry." The
Intercept also reported that from 2013 to 2015, Clinton received more than
$2.8 million in speaking fees from the health industry.
Clinton and her daughter Chelsea have suggested that Sanders plan would
dismantle the Affordable Care Act, which Sanders voted for. Sanders has
disputed that and has also disputed that passing a single-payer system is
impossible if a president pushes it.
In 2014, that view got a boost from then-Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin. He told the
Hill newspaper that year that when it came to creating a Medicare-for-all
system or a government-run health care option in the Affordable Care Act,
"We had the votes in '09. We had a huge majority in the House, we had 60
votes in the Senate."
Democrats, however, are not expected to have such numbers in Congress after
the 2016 election.
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