Bill Clinton Urges Fast Action by Senate Democrats

Today Bill Clinton joined Senate Democrats for there weekly luncheon on Tuesday. He urged them to band together and quickly pass health care legislation. His main focus was urging the law makers to get the bill adopted. Clinton stated that,
" But the main thing, since we’re focused on the economy, is that we are spending 16.5 percent of our income on health care. The next most expensive country is Switzerland at 11.5. The next most expensive is Canada at 10.5. All of our competitors are between 9 and 10 percent. That means every year, it’s like we write a check to all of our economic competitors for $800 or $900 million. And they cover everybody — we only cover 84 percent, and we don’t get better outcomes. We get worse outcomes. "
I find it funny how Clinton makes it such a big deal that we spend to much on health care when the bill that was just passed calls for $1.1 trillion dollars over the next ten years. Yes health reform is needed but it such just be based on health reform not the economy. I'm not saying we have to spend multi billions of dollars but limiting the health care due to the economy is not right. Clearly, Clinton just wanted to make an appearance. Obviously he did a lot during his presidency for health care... He hasn't had his publicity in a while.