|
|
Article: Blues for single-payer. (health care reform)(includes related article on the lack of media coverage of single-payer proposals)
- Article from:
- The Humanist
- Article date:
- November 1, 1994
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1994 American Humanist Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
In June, Hillary Rodham Clinton conceded to the Economic Club in Washington, D.C., that the so-called single-payer health-care reform option isn't "politically infeasible" after all, as it has been characterized by politicians and the media ever since the Clintons elevated health care to the top of the national agenda. "I can stand here and make this prediction," said Ms. Clinton. "There will be a grass-roots movement which will sweep this country that will achieve a single-payer system. It will start ... and build and be like nothing you have ever seen."
Make no mistake: this was not a rallying cry in support of single-payer. This was a scare tactic employed to ...