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The Democrats. They've been trying for a while, are easily misled, and are generally a clusterfuck, but at least they're tring. Though there have been some Re
by blaser-waffle 6y ago
The Democrats. They've been trying for a while, are easily misled, and are generally a clusterfuck, but at least they're tring. Though there have been some Republican attempts -- attempt in the loosest sense -- believe it or not.
The Hil-Dog was talking about universal healthcare during her husband's (Slick Willy's) administration in the 90's. Didn't go anywhere -- not with Newt G in Congress -- but was a key item on her platform running against Trump. And most of the Dems went in on Obamacare, though several balked at the Public Option (I beleive it was one particular).
Mitt Romney kicked off Romneycare in MA, and Obamacare is essentially just a knock-off of that. Both were based off of a Heritage Foundation white paper about free-market universal healthcare (which Heritage has since disawovwed, as has Romney; see below). Unfortunte that Romney didn't embrace that while running against Obama, but that's probably the only way to score a GOP nomination.
See also:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/10/20/how-a-conservative-think-tank-invented-the-individual-mandate/#1372231e6187 https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/10/20/how-a-... (decent overview)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_1993 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_19...
https://www.heritage.org/social-security/report/assuring-affordable-health-care-all-americans https://www.heritage.org/social-security/report/assuring-aff...