Wasn't "Play Or Pay" one of the provisions that killed Clinton health care reform in 1994?

[derby378]

I remember participation in that plan would also be compulsory.

Charlie Rangel and his fellow travellers need their heads flushed out. Seriously.

[derby378]

1. Kick!

Seriously. I have a Constitutional right not to fatten the pockets of Big Insurance - especially when they are willing to put profit ahead of the public good.

[TheWraith]

2. Amen to that. It's a sure recipe for revolt on all sides.

Not to mention throwing the Republicans a HUGE bone in terms of propaganda.

[eridani]

3. What killed it was that it would have eliminated all small and medium sized insurers

--and divided the market up among the big boys. When the little guys went off with Harry and Louise, did the big boys who dictated Clinton's plan back her up? No, they did not.

No Republican would have supported her plan under any circumstances, and the health care advocates who were frozen out of the process weren't the slightest bit interested in defending her either.

In 1993 conservative pundit Irving Kristol advised the GOP that the Clinton proposal "should not be amended; it should be erased," because "it will revive the reputation of the party that spends and regulates, the Democrats, as the generous protector of middle-class interests.“

In 2008, the Cato Institute has stated that “blocking Obama's health plan is key to the GOP's survival. If Obama succeeds in passing health care, then people who might have been conservatives will like it, and will be more likely to vote for the people who passed it.“