A Woman in Charge (2008)
“The greatest of their goals was to establish a system of universal health care in which every American would be insured against catastrophic illness and guaranteed adequate, paid lifelong medical care. Such an undertaking would be the biggest public works project in the nation’s history, and was perhaps the most necessary since the advent of Social Security. “If I don’t get health care done, I’ll wish I didn’t run for president,” Bill told his aides in February.Both the Clintons were, by nature..., optimists, but also realists. They understood the inevitability of political combat. But they had not expected to come to Washington and immediately find themselves under constant attack and suspicion, or forced to change their course abruptly because their predecessors had sailed recklessly into a fiscal storm and couldn’t find, or did not try to find, their way out in an election year. But those were the realities.As in Arkansas with her education portfolio, by the time Hillary had begun consulting with experts, she already knew where she wanted to go.MoreLess
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