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Hillary Wants Feds, Employers to Share Tab

Follows failed '93 bid with compromise health plan tomorrow

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 15, 2007 3:57 PM CDT

(Newser) – Details of Hillary’s health plan are leaking out before she formally announces them Monday in Iowa. Rather than re-making the system – or imitating her 1993 proposal – she wants the Feds to subsidize some care and employers to pay for the rest. The Wall Street Journal reports that she’s headed for a run-in with the GOP but has support from voters, who trust her more than other candidates on health care.

She will make insurers accept applicants but not put a restriction on premiums, sources say. Analysts claim that the US is more receptive to a health plan than it was in ’93; today, 7 million more are ininsured and premiums are double for those who have coverage. But GOP candidates are already deriding her plan as "HillaryCare" and "socialized medicine."

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. speaks during a presidential forum on health care coverage in Las Vegas in this March 24, 2007 file photo.   It's been 14 years since first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's health-care reform plan sank like a stone and in the years since,...
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. speaks during a presidential forum on health care coverage in Las Vegas in this March 24, 2007 file photo. It's been 14 years since...   (Associated Press)
Then first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, holding a copy of the Clinton health-care plan, kicks off a three-state sales campaign during a visit to the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in this Oct. 28, 1993 file photo.  In the years since the proposal, wary presidential candidates at first avoided the...
Then first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, holding a copy of the Clinton health-care plan, kicks off a three-state sales campaign during a visit to the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in this Oct....   (Associated Press)
Presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks to the audience at King/Drew Magnet High School for Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, Calif., Friday, Sept. 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Mark Avery)
Presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks to the audience at King/Drew Magnet High School for Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, Calif., Friday, Sept. 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Mark Avery)   (Associated Press)
Presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., shakes hands after speaking at King/Drew Magnet High School for Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, Calif., Friday, Sept. 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Mark Avery)
Presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., shakes hands after speaking at King/Drew Magnet High School for Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, Calif., Friday, Sept. 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Mark...   (Associated Press)
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