You’re joking, John McCarron, if you seriously think the only reason America resoundingly rejected Hillary Clinton’s 1993 health-care proposal was because she’s a strong woman (Op-Ed, Jan. 12).
Give us more credit than that, please. It was her ideas, not her sex that caused her bureaucratic boondoggle to go belly up. Americans came to their own conclusions about “Hillarycare” after asking themselves a few prudent questions, such as: Whenever a new federal bureaucracy takes over any aspect of the U.S. economy, what inevitably happens to the prices of goods and services? Answer: They skyrocket faster than a Beanie Baby’s value at a stuffed animal auction.
And what happens to the quality of those goods and services? Answer: It plummets faster than a poorly written sitcom in sweeps week. Even the Democrats realized this when they voted it down, despite having a majority in Congress at the time. I guess they, too, couldn’t take advice from a strong woman.
