Hillary campaigning in Dallas Tx -jabs at opponents over health care

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Hillary Clinton jabs at Gov. Greg Abbott during campaign stop in Dallas


.............“When your governor turned away federal dollars that could have expanded Medicaid, he put ideology ahead of the well-being of the people and the families in this state,” Clinton said, noting Texas’s nation-leading rate of uninsured residents.

The former secretary of state, making her first campaign stop in Dallas, also decried what she called an “all-out assault on Planned Parenthood” by Texas Republicans.

“They cut funding for breast and cervical cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood that save lives. They’ve forced health centers across the state to close their doors,” she told a campaign rally that drew hundreds of people to Mountain View College in Oak Cliff.

In discussing the plight of Syrian refugees, Clinton didn’t name Abbott directly, but she said he and other Republican governors were wrong to say they would bar the refugees from resettling in their states.

“Of course we have to have a lot of vigilance and we have to vet people,” she said. “But we can’t act as though we’re shutting the door to people in need without undermining who we are as Americans.”

She compared the Republican presidential debates to reality TV, and she criticized a plan by Democratic rival Bernie Sanders to create a single-payer health- care system managed by the states.#

"I don’t know about you, but I’d be a little worried about turning it over to Greg Abbott,” Clinton said, drawing raucous cheers. ..........................



Presidential Candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton takes a selfie with a supporter after she speaks at Mountain View College on Tuesday, November 17, 2015 in Dallas. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)

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1. Really, she thinks a Medicare for All system

Would be like TX ruining the state for idealist? She mistrusts the Federal Govt so much, that she want to run the highest Fed position in the land?

It's a pretty low to use a Republican talking point of not trusting Govt to be capable of doing a good job at protecting and caring for its citizens.... That's the line Republicans use to get its supporters to agree to elect them and allow them to dismantle public agencies in favor of privatization of public tax payers monies to be siphoned off to private corporations... At the end of the day, the contractors often cost more, provide fewer pay or benefit incentives for their own employees, and use the tax payers money to help lobby for fewer regulations and for tax loopholes so the wealthy at the top become wealthier.

Honestly, I can't believe she just used that talking point to try and bolster support for the greedy insurance racket and big pharmacy!!!

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3. Hillary wants the Government to run healthcare just like the ACA is doing now.

I don't know about you but the idiots in my State just elected a Repuke Governor and I sure as hell don't want him running a single payer healthcare system for me. But, hey that's just me.

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7. Which is still expensive for many, is still causing financial hardship for

families who have medical issues like cancer and deductibles and co-pays that swamp them... And the ACA and the SUpreme Court has allowed for harm and travesty in these red states by making the Medicaid Expansion optional. Opting out has caused many people who would otherwise qualify for the expanded services to go without any protection at all. They are too poor to buy insurance at a discounted price thru the ACA website, and they are too "rich" to qualify for the state's Medicaid program. This is why places like Planned Parenthood and other free clinics has become such a vital tool for the working poor within these red states. If a Medicare for All program was "The Program", then it would be the tool utilized by the state's to pay health care providers. There wouldn't be private insurance companies to pay anyone anything, bambiozle people with premium hikes and extreme co-pays, or still find ways around Dr administrations in denying expensive treatments by calling them "experimental". The reason for states to administer the programs is due to other types of regulations that are different state to state. Perhaps, that is something that should be thrown out if people don't trust the state they live in to administer paying their Dr that they go to... Perhaps, the federal agency needs to bloat itself and take valuable state jobs from the state level? However, when a single payer type of system is in play, there wouldn't be an "opt in" system in play to mess with people's actual lives. And it's not a program that would happen over night.... It would be improvements on the ACA until utilizing a single payer system could feasibly operate and take care of everyone who would now be able to seek medical care.

Saying "distrust of govt" to do the job of taking care of its citizens is a republican talking point. And it needs to stop! Private companies can't do it better all of the time. We see people complaining about the insurance hikes for this year already, Republicans are trying to blame these insurance hikes on ObamaCare, but without the ACA, the rates would likely be higher, people wouldn't have subsidies to help pay for their insurance, 16milliom would lose out on the healthcare they have now, states that did implement the expansion would see many working poor families and children without access to a dr (except through an ER, which is extremely costly), and the insurance companies would still be able to deny claims and revoke policies when people became sick with a costly illness.

She, as a Democrat, should be relieving people's irrational fears that the govt is just an evil, tax sucking behomath that does everything wrong. She wants to be the executive of this country; why would she be saying govt can't handle taking care of its citizens? If they can't handle distributing tax payer funds to healthcare administrators, then I guess they really can't deal with protecting the environment, handling issues of national security, they can't handle dealing with natural disaster relief... It's pretty damn low!

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4. She was talking about Bernie's

plan to turn healthcare over to the states.

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6. Yes, and the point is--as Sanders plan says--Turning health over to Republicans Govs is a NO _NO

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2. Put a link in the post please.

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5. Sorry--Here it is and will put in OP

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8. Mahalo Rivers!

Presidential Candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton takes a selfie with a supporter after she speaks at Mountain View College on Tuesday, November 17, 2015 in Dallas. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)