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Hillary Promises: No New Health Bureaucracy, Just New Bureaucrats

by Scott Ott · 12 Comments

(2007-09-18) — Under the broad outlines of her new universal health care proposal, Sen. Hillary Clinton today reassured Americans that her plan calls for “no new bureaucracy,” just new bureaucrats.

“Read my lips: No new bureaucracy,” said Sen. Clinton to a cheering crowd of uninsured part-time Wal-Mart employees at a union organizing rally for undocumented immigrants, “We’ve got Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, the Veterans Administration…the last thing Americans want is another faceless health care bureaucracy. All we really need to implement my new mandatory choices plan is a huge influx of new employees into our existing bureaucracies.”

In a briefing after the speech, an unnamed Clinton aide said the Democrat presidential hopeful realizes that “people hate remote, monolithic, impersonal agencies. However, most Americans like people, and won’t oppose creating new jobs for thousands upon thousands of otherwise unemployable folks.”

“The beauty of her plan,” the source said,”is that we can cover most of the 47 million uninsured by giving them good, high-paying jobs overseeing the government-mandated health choices program.”

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12 responses so far ↓

  • 1 camojack // Sep 18, 2007 at 5:42 am

    Just what we need…more gubmint employees.

    NOT!!!

  • 2 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 18, 2007 at 5:46 am

    God Bless America

  • 3 Fred Sinclair // Sep 18, 2007 at 6:22 am

    And paying for it primarily by killing all of Bush’s tax cuts.

    Heirborn Ranger

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  • 5 Hawkeye // Sep 18, 2007 at 7:12 am

    Putting America to work… one bureaucrat at a time.

  • 6 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 18, 2007 at 7:15 am

    Lord if I have a heart attack or other problems that require extensive medical attention, then let it happen before/if Chillary becomes president.

  • 7 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 18, 2007 at 7:16 am

    pushing one posting at a time, ugggh

  • 8 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 18, 2007 at 7:17 am

    should I say the post is lost?

  • 9 mig // Sep 18, 2007 at 7:50 am

    I thought monopolies were illegal? Isn’t this another government monopoly?
    Validating monopoly money, one patient at a time.

  • 10 Bear Creek Ledger » Putting America to work… one bureaucrat at a time // Sep 18, 2007 at 4:31 pm

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  • 11 prettyold // Sep 18, 2007 at 7:25 pm

    The real name for this plan should be,” Hillary Rodham Clinton’s No Health Care Plan”
    Only a very few wealthy elite will be able ro get treatment ,and unliike the Canadians we won’t be able to go across the border.

  • 12   9/19/07 Links by Need for Information // Sep 20, 2007 at 7:29 pm

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