Former president Bill Clinton challenged the Californians to take the lead on making the healthcare program successful.
Clinton had once dreamed of having a universal health care plan available for all Americans. In fact, he had his chance back in 1993 when the Health Security Act was born. The objective of the bill was to impose directive to the employers to provide health insurance coverage to all their employees through regulated health organizations. It became very controversial and received opposition from various organizations including the Democrats of the Congress. It didn’t make it in the Congress.
Odd enough, years later President Obama introduced the Affordable Care Act which have a concept similar to Clinton’s. It passed the Congress and became an official law. This may be the reason why Clinton is so supportive of the Obamacare and remained positive about the rollout despite oppositions of the Republicans this time.
During his speech last Friday in front of the doctors and healthcare executives of California Assn. of Physician Groups in downtown Los Angeles, he encouraged the Californians to unite and support the health care program and convince the rest of the state that this is a positive change.
"If this works in California, eventually America will follow your lead," Clinton said in the speech. "If it comes off the rails here, it will give aid and comfort to everyone who really just wants to say, 'I told you so' without being able to pass any given 10-question test about the American healthcare system."
He also left a message to the critics, “critics just want to see it as another episode in this long ideological war we are having.... A lot of people think government would mess up a two-car parade, therefore the answer to everything is to let the market handle it."
This outright support of the former president scorned the oppositions further. In fact, an online mash-up photo of the former president Clinton and president Obama is now trending online. It combined the face of two people who were allegedly proposing healthcare policies that are not helping most of the Americans.
