When the Clinton administration proposed universal health care for the United States it was soundly defeated. Why should we enact it in Connecticut?
The Clinton health care plan provided universal health insurance through a multi-payer system. This plan was complex, cumbersome, costly and inefficient, because it did not resolve the problems and costs associated with managed care and the multi-payer system. It is a completely different system and should have been defeated because it would have been ineffective in containing health care costs. This Act provides universal health care through a single payer, public health system. This system saves money despite increasing benefits and utilization. It is democratic, ethical, fiscally conservative, and would resolve the problems associated with our current multi-payer system. For those reasons it is a vast improvement over the Clinton plan and should be enacted.
