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Federal Universal health care
Clinton supports incremental reforms that would provide federal universal access to health care by subsidizing insurance premiums for those unable to pay, but not single-payer health care.
In a speech to Harvard Medical School on June 4, 1998, Clinton outlined general support for federal universal affordable health care for Americans. "There are 41 million people without health insurance. Who will take care of these people in the future? How will we pay for their care? How will we pay for the extra costs that come when someone is not treated for a chronic disease or turned away from the emergency room? The job of health care reform cannot be done when access to care depends on skin color or the neighborhood they live in or the amount of money in their wallet. Let’s continue to work toward universal affordable, quality health care."[11]
Clinton later said that health care coverage improvements need to be made incrementally over time, in contrast to the more ambitious, wide-ranging plan that failed in 1993 to 1994. Clinton has collaborated with former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich on joint proposals for federal incremental health care improvements that would involve both private insurers and government.[12][13]
But Clinton has always said that a Canadian-style single-payer plan was politically unrealistic, from the 1993 Clinton health care plan[14] to the present.[15]
Clinton supports proposals currently in Congress to expand SCHIP to include taxpayer-funded coverage to the children of middle class families, some making over $100,000, cover three out of four US children, and quadruple SCHIP spending with an allocation of $75 billion over five years.
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