Clinton Upset about Obama's "Universal" Health Care Plan

By Charlie Brett
22:44, December 1st 2007
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Clinton Upset about Obama's "Universal" Health Care Plan

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign called yesterday morning on the Obama campaign to stop running a campaign television commercial in New Hampshire that asserts that his health insurance plan will cover all Americans.

Apparently, Clinton is upset that Obama's misleading health care promises are less misleading than her misleading health care promises. Essentially, Clinton faults Barack Obama's health care plan for not insuring "15 million people."

However, Clinton's demagoguery is in fact worse than Obama's: her plan won't cover illegal immigrants either which make up for the most of the uninsured. Also, she said in Canterbury, NH, last month that she thinks "we'll have a good chance to cover everyone as long as we make it clear that the insurance companies have to change the way they do business."

In fact, the Washington Post's Fact Checker compared the two plans. Their conclusion is nothing like the two presidential hopefuls' rhetoric:

"At this point, nobody knows how many uninsured [their health care plans] will include, but [coverage] will not 100 per cent. Much will depend on their ability to work with Congress once they are elected. If they were being honest with the voters, they would say that universal health care coverage is an aspiration, not a guarantee."

For misleading their voters, both Obama and Clinton received two "Pinocchios" each, on a scale of one to four Pinocchios. Statements and claims that contain "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" receive the "Geppetto" checkmark.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton fired back, pointing out that Hillary is playing politics, as the ad in question is old news. Obama's health care ad campaign criticized by Clinton's staff was actually launched a month ago. Burton claims Obama's plan would offer coverage to everyone who can't afford it.



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