Clinton cautious on health care reform: "once burned, twice shy"

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AP: Clinton cautious on health care reform
By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer
Mon Jun 25

NEW YORK - When it comes to health care reform, Hillary Rodham Clinton epitomizes the old adage, "once burned, twice shy."

As first lady in the early 1990s, she tried to reshape the nation's health care system — an audacious effort that collapsed under its own complexity, Republican opposition and the Clintons' unwillingness to seek compromise with lawmakers.

"I still have the scars to show for it," she tells voters now, promising a more consensus-based approach to health care reform if she is elected president.

But that newfound caution has also come with a price. While rivals Barack Obama and John Edwards have both laid out sweeping health care reform plans with estimated costs attached, Clinton has so far proposed only modest changes to the existing system while avoiding the vexing question of how to provide coverage for all.

With some 47 million Americans lacking health insurance, the issue has become an urgent priority for Democratic primary voters and for organized labor, a major party constituency. Activists say the time for caution is long past and they want answers from Clinton, the Democratic front-runner....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070625/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_health_care

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1. Good -- put some pressure on her. We want answers! n/t

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2. She gave answers in the 90's.

Now I want to see results! Talk is cheap.

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3. Well, she first has to come up with a plan. That's what I want to see. n/t