Now we know for sure that Hillary Rodham Clinton learned the main lesson from her 1994 failure to overhaul health care during the presidency of her husband, Bill Clinton: Don’t mess with the insurance industry. Which is why the New York senator and 2008 Democratic presidential contender unveiled a new health care reform agenda today that not only leaves the nation’s insurance-based system in place, but would expand the revenue potential for private industry by requiring all Americans to buy insurance.
More than a decade ago, as first lady, Clinton came up with a more revolutionary blueprint that threatened industry members of the Health Insurance Association of America, which sponsored a withering television advertising campaign featuring actors playing a married couple, “Harry and Louise,” who became famous for their complaints about Clinton’s proposals. This time around, Clinton has something that might keep Harry and Louise out of the picture.
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