Hillary Clinton’s involvement in health care started in the early 1990′s when her husband Bill Clinton was president. At that time, Hillary Clinton chaired a task force set up to promote universal healthcare for all American citizens. In the end, the Clinton administration was unable to get a bill passed that would mandate coverage for all American citizens. However, it is interesting to note that the proposals put forth at this time are in many ways very similar to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed under the Obama administration.
Hillary Clinton is well known for her position that all United States citizens should have some sort of coverage. She does not support single payer healthcare, but she does support incremental reforms that would provide subsidization to those who cannot pay for health insurance. One specific program that Mrs. Clinton supports is SCHIP. Her desire is to expand this program so that it would provide coverage to up to 25% of all of America’s children. This would call for an additional $75 billion dollars to be spent over the course of a five year time period.
In short, Hillary Clintons stance on health care is that every single United States citizen should have some sort of coverage. She has repeatedly decried the fact that millions of U.S. citizens are uninsured because they cannot afford to pay the premiums or because insurers refuse to provide coverage for those who have pre-existing conditions. While Mrs. Clinton has in the past fought for sweeping reforms, at present she favors an incremental approach to healthcare reform. She rejects the single payer system that has been used in other countries such as Canada but she supports the end goals achieved by other countries of providing affordable government sponsored health care to all citizens.










