Below you'll find some predictably mixed early reviews on Hillary Clinton's just-released healthcare reform proposal.
"What Hillary proposed is in many ways the Massachusetts plan gone national, and I think that's great.... We are the shot fired around the world again--there's a whole new movement in healthcare started by what we did here."--Jonathan Gruber, economics professor, MIT, quoted in "In ways, Clinton healthcare plan resembles Romney's Mass. solution," The Boston Globe, Sept. 18 "That's a highly ambitious figure [Clinton's proposed $35 billion in savings].... It's not going to be achieved without some significant belt-tightening that's going to engender opposition."--Robert D. Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute, quoted in "Clinton unveils new healthcare plan," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 18 "The new Clinton plan includes important ideas to make coverage more affordable; unfortunately some of the divisive rhetoric seems reminiscent of 1993."--Karen Ignagni, president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, quoted in "Clinton unveils new healthcare plan," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 18 "'She's gambling with some things in the right way--she's edging toward changing the basic tax basis of health care."--Stuart Butler, the Heritage Foundation, quoted in "Clinton's Health-Care Plan Echoes Her Rivals, Not 'Hillarycare'," Bloomberg.com, Sept. 18 "She basically is ensuring that anyone happy with the status quo can hold onto the status quo, since anyone with private insurance can hold onto that insurance."--Robert Hayes, the Medicare Rights Center, quoted in "Clinton's health care plan could backfire," Newsday, Sept. 17 "The bottom line on health insurance is either you have it or you don't and the question is: What happens if you don't?... There might be downside implications [of a mandate], but they kind of pale in comparison to what the downside is of not having insurance."--Kenneth Raske, president of the Greater New York Hospital Association, quoted in "Clinton's health care plan could backfire," Newsday, Sept. 17 "Would someone please ask Hillary Clinton to stop coming up with health care 'reform' plans that are less attractive than the dysfunctional system she proposes to replace?" --from "Clinton's Prescription for Another Heath Care Reform Failure," editorial, The Nation, Sept. 17 "Ms. Clinton, in setting out her route to universal coverage, adds some promising policy twists. The most interesting would limit the tax deductibility of employer-sponsored health plans for the wealthiest Americans, a sensible step toward fixing one of the most expensive and counterproductive parts of the tax code."--from "Fixing Health Care," editorial, The Washington Post, Sept. 18
"What Hillary proposed is in many ways the Massachusetts plan gone national, and I think that's great.... We are the shot fired around the world again--there's a whole new movement in healthcare started by what we did here."--Jonathan Gruber, economics professor, MIT, quoted in "In ways, Clinton healthcare plan resembles Romney's Mass. solution," The Boston Globe, Sept. 18
"That's a highly ambitious figure [Clinton's proposed $35 billion in savings].... It's not going to be achieved without some significant belt-tightening that's going to engender opposition."--Robert D. Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute, quoted in "Clinton unveils new healthcare plan," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 18
"The new Clinton plan includes important ideas to make coverage more affordable; unfortunately some of the divisive rhetoric seems reminiscent of 1993."--Karen Ignagni, president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, quoted in "Clinton unveils new healthcare plan," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 18
"'She's gambling with some things in the right way--she's edging toward changing the basic tax basis of health care."--Stuart Butler, the Heritage Foundation, quoted in "Clinton's Health-Care Plan Echoes Her Rivals, Not 'Hillarycare'," Bloomberg.com, Sept. 18
"She basically is ensuring that anyone happy with the status quo can hold onto the status quo, since anyone with private insurance can hold onto that insurance."--Robert Hayes, the Medicare Rights Center, quoted in "Clinton's health care plan could backfire," Newsday, Sept. 17
"The bottom line on health insurance is either you have it or you don't and the question is: What happens if you don't?... There might be downside implications [of a mandate], but they kind of pale in comparison to what the downside is of not having insurance."--Kenneth Raske, president of the Greater New York Hospital Association, quoted in "Clinton's health care plan could backfire," Newsday, Sept. 17
"Would someone please ask Hillary Clinton to stop coming up with health care 'reform' plans that are less attractive than the dysfunctional system she proposes to replace?" --from "Clinton's Prescription for Another Heath Care Reform Failure," editorial, The Nation, Sept. 17
"Ms. Clinton, in setting out her route to universal coverage, adds some promising policy twists. The most interesting would limit the tax deductibility of employer-sponsored health plans for the wealthiest Americans, a sensible step toward fixing one of the most expensive and counterproductive parts of the tax code."--from "Fixing Health Care," editorial, The Washington Post, Sept. 18
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