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For any of us who were even remotely worried about universal health - don't. It's shaping up to be McCain as the Rep and he's for expanding the competitive market and Billary has all but dropped it to be little more than a footnote in her campaign.
So what's up with Billary? If anyone remembers, universal health care was a major campaign platform during the Clinton campaign. However, it can't be a major platform for her now.
Why? It's the economy stupid. When we're batting around the "R" word you simply can't tout a program that must raise taxes to be implemented.
If Hillary was running around touting universal health care it would be the nail in her campaign coffin. Her opponents would demand to see the math - and the math can't happen. You can't run the numbers and make it work with anything less than a 2% corporate tax and 5% personal tax hike.
And let's go ahead and talk about more taxes when record numbers of Americans are in foreclosure and massive lay-offs are coming from auto manufacturers.
Now the focus is Iraq, the economy and immigration. I would have thought that by this time in the campaign "health care for all" would be one of the three major topics.
Bottom line if we have more to worry about with individual state initiatives then anything national.
So what's up with Billary? If anyone remembers, universal health care was a major campaign platform during the Clinton campaign. However, it can't be a major platform for her now.
Why? It's the economy stupid. When we're batting around the "R" word you simply can't tout a program that must raise taxes to be implemented.
If Hillary was running around touting universal health care it would be the nail in her campaign coffin. Her opponents would demand to see the math - and the math can't happen. You can't run the numbers and make it work with anything less than a 2% corporate tax and 5% personal tax hike.
And let's go ahead and talk about more taxes when record numbers of Americans are in foreclosure and massive lay-offs are coming from auto manufacturers.
Now the focus is Iraq, the economy and immigration. I would have thought that by this time in the campaign "health care for all" would be one of the three major topics.
Bottom line if we have more to worry about with individual state initiatives then anything national.