Saving You Money For Life

hose of us who remember when the Clintons stormed Washington 14 years ago as the newly inaugurated first couple will remember that their move into the White House occurred during a period of enormous good will and hope for this new generation of leadership – Clinton and Gore.

Also memorable from those days is the first principal issue that the new President took on – it was the health care mess in this country, and he handed it off to his wife to manage the project. Despite the good will and Democratic control of both houses, the effort to reform health care and health insurance for the poor hit a wall and the First Lady ended her role as lead on policy initiatives for her husband’s administration.

As she informally announced her Presidential candidacy for 2008 in late January, the first issue she raised was health care in the U.S. – now considerably more expensive and unavailable to one in six Americans. In her first public appearance since announcing her run for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Clinton said she will once again embrace health care as a principal cause.

“I will be introducing legislation to make quality, affordable health care available to every child in America,” she told a roomful of reporters at a public health center in New York City as a girl clutched her hand.

The New York senator and former first lady said she and Rep. John Dingell of Michigan, would introduce legislation “in the coming weeks” to renew and expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program so that families earning nearly five times the federal poverty level would be eligible to participate in it.

“It expands the program to millions of children whose families today cannot afford care,” she said. In addition, all employers and all families, regardless of income, would be able to buy into the S-CHIP program, she said.

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