If you dial the time machine back to April of 2006, Hillary Clinton was
giving a speech at the Economic Club of Chicago back when she was burnishing her centrist credentials and expecting a primary challenge from the right from Mark Warner or Evan Bayh. Barack Obama was, at the time, a young and promising senator. And Clinton had a health care agenda, including a bill on health care information technology she did with Bill Frist and working with Newt Gingrich because "we actually agree that the private sector could demand much more accountability from the insurance industry and get it," and the punchline:
And I'm working with Senator Obama on his grand bargain bill offering American auto companies voluntary for retiree healthcare costs in exchange for their commitment to use the savings to build more fuel efficient cars.
That would be
this plan which is now, I guess, a forgotten relic of the past.
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