Post by cjm on Oct 19, 2016 16:51:50 GMT
WikiLeaks: Hillary Wants Obamacare to ‘Unravel’
Leaked email suggests Clinton rooting for Affordable Care Act to collapse
by Edmund Kozak | Updated 18 Oct 2016 at 11:00 AM
An email leaked by WikiLeaks Tuesday appears to suggest that Hillary Clinton wants the Affordable Care Act to fail — presumably as a pretense for implementing single-payer, government-controlled health care.
In a chain between Clinton and her senior policy adviser Ann O’Leary titled “Memo on Cadillac Tax for HRC,” Clinton said she’s open to changing her position on the Cadillac Tax — but that the Republican plan to repeal it must pass.
"Given the politics now w bipartisan support including Schumer, I'll support repeal w 'sense of the Senate' that revenues would have to be found," Clinton wrote. "I'd be open to a range of options to do that. But we have to be careful that the R version passes which begins the unraveling of the ACA," she continued.
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