Hillarycare: Worse Than Obamacare
New York Post op-ed by Betsy McCaughey:

Clinton ducks questions about her views on health reform. But the plan she proposed in 1993, as first lady, raises concerns.

That proposal was even more coercive than ObamaCare. She put price controls on doctors and limits on how much health care the nation could consume annually and how much you could buy for your own family -- even if you paid for it yourself.

True, that was 20 years ago. But it's an important window into her thinking.

...Clinton wouldn't take "no" for an answer. If you failed to enroll or the plan you chose was oversubscribed, government would assign you one (Health Security Act of 1993, pp. 144, 146; the text is available online).

As for people not paying their premiums, Hillary told a House hearing back then that an equivalent amount would "be deducted from their wages or obtained through tax deductions in some other way."

...Government officials would put price controls on what doctors charge, barring them from charging more or accepting payments directly from patients (pp. 236-237). Why would anyone want to pay a doctor directly? Privacy for one thing. Access, for another.

Access would have been a problem. Her plan limited what you would be allowed to pay for insurance. That limits how much money is in the pot to take care of you when you're sick. It turns insurers into rationers.

Princeton Prof. Paul Starr (Hillary's Jonathan Gruber) said it would force doctors and hospitals "to manage under constraint." Under HillaryCare, government could outlaw any plan that cost 20 percent above the average plan.

McCaughey ends with "Hillary may have discarded some of her radical ideas."

Sure, but it does say a good bit about where she's really coming from, if she had her druthers.