Friday, May 25, 2007

Clinton proposes health care fixes to curb rising medical costs

WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that an ounce of prevention is worth billions of dollars to the health care system as she called for far-reaching changes to curb rising costs.

“Our health care system is plagued with underuse, overuse and misuse. It is, simply put, broken,” the New York senator said in a speech to George Washington University medical school students.

Clinton, who as first lady in the 1990's fought and lost a major battle on health care reform, outlined seven changes designed make the system more cost effective.

Read More

1 comment:

Ajay Jain said...

After having President Bill Clinton for 8 years in office why does the press address Hilary as Clinton. She has her own identity as Hillary. Her full name is Hillary Rodham Clinton. Then why not address her as either Hillary or Senator Clinton and Bill as President Clinton.

As a person in her own right Mrs. Clinton deserves to be called Hillary in this first name basis culture of the United States of America. Maybe the New York Times and the rest of the press can start differentiating itself by addressing Mrs. Clinton as Hillary. Candiddate Hillary! Go Hillary GO!!