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2016-01-25 00:28 Subject: HRC Paid Speeches
Team, Attached are the flags from HRC’s
paid speeches we have from HWA. I put some highlights
below. There is a lot of
policy positions that we should give an extra scrub with
Policy. In terms of
what was opened to the press and what was not, the
Washington Examiner got a
hold of one of the private speech contracts (her speeches
to universities were
typically open press), so this is worth a read
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*CLINTON ADMITS SHE IS OUT OF TOUCH* *Hillary Clinton:

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“I'm Kind Of Far
Removed” From The Struggles Of The Middle Class “Because
The Life I've Lived And
The Economic, You Know, Fortunes That My Husband And I Now
Enjoy.” *“And I am
not taking a position on any policy, but I do think there
is a growing sense of
anxiety and even anger in the country over the feeling
that the game is rigged.
And I never had that feeling when I was growing up. Never.
I mean, were there
really rich people, of course there were. My father loved
to complain about big
business and big government, but we had a solid middle
class upbringing. We had
good public schools. We had accessible health care. We had
our little, you
know, one-family house that, you know, he saved up his
money, didn't believe in
mortgages. So I lived that. And now, obviously, I'm kind
of far removed
because the life I've lived and the economic, you know,
fortunes that my husband
and I now enjoy, but I haven't forgotten it.” [Hillary
Clinton Remarks at
Goldman-Black Rock, 2/4/14] *CLINTON SAYS YOU NEED TO HAVE
A PRIVATE AND PUBLIC
POSITION ON POLICY* *Clinton: “But If Everybody's
Watching, You Know, All Of The
Back Room Discussions And The Deals, You Know, Then People

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Get A Little Nervous,
To Say The Least. So, You Need Both A Public And A Private
Position.”* CLINTON:
You just have to sort of figure out how to -- getting back
to that word,
"balance" -- how to balance the public and the private
efforts that are
necessary to be successful, politically, and that's not
just a comment about
today. That, I think, has probably been true for all of
our history, and if you
saw the Spielberg movie, Lincoln, and how he was
maneuvering and working to get
the 13th Amendment passed, and he called one of my
favorite predecessors,
Secretary Seward, who had been the governor and senator
from New York, ran
against Lincoln for president, and he told Seward, I need
your help to get this
done. And Seward called some of his lobbyist friends who
knew how to make a
deal, and they just kept going at it. I mean, politics is
like sausage being
made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but
we usually end up
where we need to be. But if everybody's watching, you
know, all of the back room
discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a
little nervous, to say
the least. So, you need both a public and a private

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position. And finally, I
think -- I believe in evidence-based decision making. I
want to know what the
facts are. I mean, it's like when you guys go into some
kind of a deal, you
know, are you going to do that development or not, are you
going to do that
renovation or not, you know, you look at the numbers. You
try to figure out
what's going to work and what's not going to work.
[Clinton Speech For National
Multi-Housing Council, 4/24/13] *CLINTON TALKS ABOUT
HOLDING WALL STREET
ACCOUNTABLE ONLY FOR POLITICAL REASONS* *Clinton Said That
The Blame Placed On
The United States Banking System For The Crisis “Could
Have Been Avoided In
Terms Of Both Misunderstanding And Really Politicizing
What Happened.”* “That
was one of the reasons that I started traveling in
February of '09, so people
could, you know, literally yell at me for the United
States and our banking
system causing this everywhere. Now, that's an
oversimplification we know, but
it was the conventional wisdom. And I think that there's a
lot that could have
been avoided in terms of both misunderstanding and really
politicizing what
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on all sides, you
know, what happened, how did it happen, how do we prevent
it from happening?
You guys help us figure it out and let's make sure that we
do it right this
time. And I think that everybody was desperately trying to
fend off the worst
effects institutionally, governmentally, and there just
wasn't that opportunity
to try to sort this out, and that came later.” [Goldman
Sachs AIMS Alternative
Investments Symposium, 10/24/13] *Clinton: “Even If It May
Not Be 100 Percent
True, If The Perception Is That Somehow The Game Is
Rigged, That Should Be A
Problem For All Of Us.” *“Now, it's important to recognize
the vital role that
the financial markets play in our economy and that so many
of you are
contributing to. To function effectively those markets and
the men and women
who shape them have to command trust and confidence,
because we all rely on the
market's transparency and integrity. So even if it may not
be 100 percent true,
if the perception is that somehow the game is rigged, that
should be a problem
for all of us, and we have to be willing to make that
absolutely clear. And if
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held accountable and
we have to try to deter future bad behavior, because the
public trust is at the
core of both a free market economy and a
democracy.” [Clinton Remarks to
Deutsche Bank, 10/7/14] *CLINTON SUGGESTS WALL STREET
INSIDERS ARE WHAT IS
NEEDED TO FIX WALL STREET* *Clinton Said Financial Reform
“Really Has To Come
From The Industry Itself.” *“Remember what Teddy Roosevelt
did. Yes, he took on
what he saw as the excesses in the economy, but he also
stood against the
excesses in politics. He didn't want to unleash a lot of
nationalist,
populistic reaction. He wanted to try to figure out how to
get back into that
balance that has served America so well over our entire
nationhood. Today,
there's more that can and should be done that really has
to come from the
industry itself, and how we can strengthen our economy,
create more jobs at a
time where that's increasingly challenging, to get back to
Teddy Roosevelt's
square deal. And I really believe that our country and all
of you are up to
that job.” [Clinton Remarks to Deutsche Bank, 10/7/14]
*Speaking About The
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That Know The Industry
Better Than Anybody Are The People Who Work In The
Industry.”* “I mean, it's
still happening, as you know. People are looking back and
trying to, you know,
get compensation for bad mortgages and all the rest of it
in some of the
agreements that are being reached. There's nothing magic
about regulations, too
much is bad, too little is bad. How do you get to the
golden key, how do we
figure out what works? And the people that know the
industry better than anybody
are the people who work in the industry. And I think there
has to be a
recognition that, you know, there's so much at stake now,
I mean, the business
has changed so much and decisions are made so quickly, in
nano seconds
basically. We spend trillions of dollars to travel around
the world, but it's
in everybody's interest that we have a better framework,
and not just for the
United States but for the entire world, in which to
operate and trade.”
[Goldman Sachs AIMS Alternative Investments Symposium,
10/24/13] *CLINTON ADMITS
NEEDING WALL STREET FUNDING* *Clinton Said That Because
Candidates Needed Money
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Needed To Ask Tough
Questions About The Economy Before Handing Over Campaign
Contributions.
*“Secondly, running for office in our country takes a lot
of money, and
candidates have to go out and raise it. New York is
probably the leading site
for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both
sides of the aisle, and
it's also our economic center. And there are a lot of
people here who should ask
some tough questions before handing over campaign
contributions to people who
were really playing chicken with our whole
economy.” [Goldman Sachs AIMS
Alternative Investments Symposium, 10/24/13] *Clinton: “It
Would Be Very
Difficult To Run For President Without Raising A Huge
Amount Of Money And
Without Having Other People Supporting You Because Your
Opponent Will Have Their
Supporters.”* “So our system is, in many ways, more
difficult, certainly far
more expensive and much longer than a parliamentary
system, and I really admire
the people who subject themselves to it. Even when I, you
know, think they
should not be elected president, I still think, well, you
know, good for you I
guess, you're out there promoting democracy and those

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crazy ideas of yours. So I
think that it's something -- I would like -- you know,
obviously as somebody who
has been through it, I would like it not to last as long
because I think it's
very distracting from what we should be doing every day in
our public business.
I would like it not to be so expensive. I have no idea how
you do that. I
mean, in my campaign -- I lose track, but I think I raised
$250 million or some
such enormous amount, and in the last campaign President
Obama raised 1.1
billion, and that was before the Super PACs and all of
this other money just
rushing in, and it's so ridiculous that we have this kind
of free for all with
all of this financial interest at stake, but, you know,
the Supreme Court said
that's basically what we're in for. So we're kind of in
the wild west, and, you
know, it would be very difficult to run for president
without raising a huge
amount of money and without having other people supporting
you because your
opponent will have their supporters. So I think as hard as
it was when I ran, I
think it's even harder now.” [Clinton Speech For General
Electric’s Global
Leadership Meeting – Boca Raton, FL, 1/6/14] *CLINTON

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TOUTS HER RELATIONSHIP TO
WALL STREET AS A SENATOR* *Clinton: As Senator, “I
Represented And Worked With”
So Many On Wall Street And “Did All I Could To Make Sure
They Continued To
Prosper” But Still Called For Closing Carried Interest
Loophole. *In remarks at
Robbins, Gellar, Rudman & Dowd in San Diego, Hillary
Clinton said, “When I
was a Senator from New York, I represented and worked with
so many talented
principled people who made their living in finance. But
even thought I
represented them and did all I could to make sure they
continued to prosper, I
called for closing the carried interest loophole and
addressing skyrocketing CEO
pay. I also was calling in '06, '07 for doing something
about the mortgage
crisis, because I saw every day from Wall Street literally
to main streets
across New York how a well-functioning financial system is
essential. So when I
raised early warnings about early warnings about subprime
mortgages and called
for regulating derivatives and over complex financial
products, I didn't get
some big arguments, because people sort of said, no, that
makes sense. But boy,
have we had fights about it ever since.” [Hillary

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Clinton’s Remarks at Robbins
Geller Rudman & Dowd in San Diego, 9/04/14] *Clinton On
Wall Street: “I Had
Great Relations And Worked So Close Together After 9/11 To
Rebuild Downtown, And
A Lot Of Respect For The Work You Do And The People Who Do
It.” *“Now, without
going over how we got to where we are right now, what
would be your advice to
the Wall Street community and the big banks as to the way
forward with those two
important decisions? SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I
represented all of you for
eight years. I had great relations and worked so close
together after 9/11 to
rebuild downtown, and a lot of respect for the work you do
and the people who
do it, but I do -- I think that when we talk about the
regulators and the
politicians, the economic consequences of bad decisions
back in '08, you know,
were devastating, and they had repercussions throughout
the world.” [Goldman
Sachs AIMS Alternative Investments Symposium, 10/24/13]
*CLINTON TALKS ABOUT THE
CHALLENGES RUNNING FOR OFFICE* *Hillary Clinton Said There
Was “A Bias Against
People Who Have Led Successful And/Or Complicated Lives,”
Citing The Need To
Divese Of Assets, Positions, And Stocks.* “SECRETARY

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CLINTON: Yeah. Well,
you know what Bob Rubin said about that. He said, you
know, when he came to
Washington, he had a fortune. And when he left Washington,
he had a small -MR. BLANKFEIN: That’s how you have a small fortune, is you
go to
Washington. SECRETARY CLINTON: You go to Washington.
Right. But,
you know, part of the problem with the political
situation, too, is that there
is such a bias against people who have led successful
and/or complicated lives.
You know, the divestment of assets, the stripping of all
kinds of positions, the
sale of stocks. It just becomes very onerous and
unnecessary.” [Goldman Sachs
Builders And Innovators Summit, 10/29/13] *CLINTON
SUGGESTS SHE IS A MODERATE*
*Clinton Said That Both The Democratic And Republican
Parties Should Be
“Moderate.” *“URSULA BURNS: Interesting. Democrats?
SECRETARY CLINTON: Oh,
long, definitely. URSULA BURNS: Republicans? SECRETARY
CLINTON: Unfortunately,
at the time, short. URSULA BURNS: Okay. We'll go back to
questions. SECRETARY
CLINTON: We need two parties. URSULA BURNS: Yeah, we do
need two parties.
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parties.” [Hillary Clinton
Remarks, Remarks at Xerox, 3/18/14] *Clinton: “SimpsonBowles… Put Forth The
Right Framework. Namely, We Have To Restrain Spending, We
Have To Have Adequate
Revenues, And We Have To Incentivize Growth. It's A ThreePart Formula… And They
Reached An Agreement. But What Is Very Hard To Do Is To
Then Take That Agreement
If You Don't Believe That You're Going To Be Able To Move
The Other Side.”*
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, this may be borne more out of
hope than experience in
the last few years. But Simpson-Bowles -- and I know you
heard from Erskine
earlier today -- put forth the right framework. Namely, we
have to restrain
spending, we have to have adequate revenues, and we have
to incentivize growth.
It's a three-part formula. The specifics can be negotiated
depending upon
whether we're acting in good faith or not. And what
Senator Simpson and Erskine
did was to bring Republicans and Democrats alike to the
table, and you had the
full range of ideological views from I think Tom Coburn to
Dick Durbin. And
they reached an agreement. But what is very hard to do is
to then take that
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able to move the other
side. And where we are now is in this gridlocked
dysfunction. So you've got
Democrats saying that, you know, you have to have more
revenues; that's the sine
qua non of any kind of agreement. You have Republicans
saying no, no, no on
revenues; you have to cut much more deeply into spending.
Well, looks what's
happened. We are slowly returning to growth. It's not as
much or as fast as
many of us would like to see, but, you know, we're
certainly better off than our
European friends, and we're beginning to, I believe, kind
of come out of the
long aftermath of the '08 crisis. [Clinton Speech For
Morgan Stanley, 4/18/13]
*Clinton: “The Simpson-Bowles Framework And The Big
Elements Of It Were Right…
You Have To Restrain Spending, You Have To Have Adequate
Revenues, And You Have
To Have Growth.”* CLINTON: So, you know, the SimpsonBowles framework and the
big elements of it were right. The specifics can be
negotiated and argued over.
But you got to do all three. You have to restrain
spending, you have to have
adequate revenues, and you have to have growth. And I
think we are smart enough
to figure out how to do that. [Clinton Speech For Morgan

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Stanley, 4/18/13]
*CLINTON IS AWARE OF SECURITY CONCERNS AROUND
BLACKBERRIES* *Clinton: “At The
State Department We Were Attacked Every Hour, More Than
Once An Hour By Incoming
Efforts To Penetrate Everything We Had. And That Was True
Across The U.S.
Government.”* CLINTON: But, at the State Department we
were attacked every hour,
more than once an hour by incoming efforts to penetrate
everything we had. And
that was true across the U.S. government. And we knew it
was going on when I
would go to China, or I would go to Russia, we would leave
all of our electronic
equipment on the plane, with the batteries out, because
this is a new frontier.
And they're trying to find out not just about what we do
in our government.
They're trying to find out about what a lot of companies
do and they were going
after the personal emails of people who worked in the
State Department. So it's
not like the only government in the world that is doing
anything is the United
States. But, the United States compared to a number of our
competitors is the
only government in the world with any kind of safeguards,
any kind of checks and
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strengthened and people need to
be reassured, and they need to have their protections
embodied in law. But, I
think turning over a lot of that material intentionally or
unintentionally,
because of the way it can be drained, gave all kinds of
information not only to
big countries, but to networks and terrorist groups, and
the like. So I have a
hard time thinking that somebody who is a champion of
privacy and liberty has
taken refuge in Russia under Putin's authority. And then
he calls into a Putin
talk show and says, President Putin, do you spy on people?
And President Putin
says, well, from one intelligence professional to another,
of course not. Oh,
thank you so much. I mean, really, I don't know. I have a
hard time following
it. [Clinton Speech At UConn, 4/23/14] *Hillary Clinton:
“When I Got To The
State Department, It Was Still Against The Rules To Let
Most -- Or Let All
Foreign Service Officers Have Access To A Blackberry.” *“I
mean, let's face it,
our government is woefully, woefully behind in all of its
policies that affect
the use of technology. When I got to the State Department,
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Officers have access to a
Blackberry. You couldn't have desktop computers when Colin
Powell was there.
Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and
using, is still a
generation or two behind when it comes to our
government.” [Hillary Clinton
Remarks at Nexenta, 8/28/14] *Hillary Clinton: “We
Couldn't Take Our Computers,
We Couldn't Take Our Personal Devices” Off The Plane In
China And Russia. *“I
mean, probably the most frustrating part of this whole
debate are countries
acting like we're the only people in the world trying to
figure out what's going
on. I mean, every time I went to countries like China or
Russia, I mean, we
couldn't take our computers, we couldn't take our personal
devices, we couldn't
take anything off the plane because they're so good, they
would penetrate them
in a minute, less, a nanosecond. So we would take the
batteries out, we'd
leave them on the plane.” [Hillary Clinton Remarks at
Nexenta, 8/28/14]
*Clinton Said When She Got To State, Employees “Were Not
Mostly Permitted To
Have Handheld Devices.”* “You know, when Colin Powell
showed up as Secretary of
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didn't even have computers
on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly
permitted to have
handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we
operate in this new
environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces?
We have to change, and
I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it
and lead it.”
[Clinton Speech For General Electric’s Global Leadership
Meeting – Boca Raton,
FL, 1/6/14] *Hillary Clinton Said You Know You Can’t Bring
Your Phone And
Computer When Traveling To China And Russia And She Had To
Take Her Batteries
Out And Put them In A Special Box. *“And anybody who has
ever traveled in other
countries, some of which shall remain nameless, except for
Russia and China,
you know that you can’t bring your phones and your
computers. And if you do,
good luck. I mean, we would not only take the batteries
out, we would leave the
batteries and the devices on the plane in special boxes.
Now, we didn’t do that
because we thought it would be fun to tell somebody about.
We did it because we
knew that we were all targets and that we would be totally
vulnerable. So it’s
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how many people are
involved in it. It’s what’s the purpose of it, what is
being collected, and how
can it be used. And there are clearly people in this room
who know a lot about
this, and some of you could be very useful contributors to
that conversation
because you’re sophisticated enough to know that it’s not
just, do it, don’t do
it. We have to have a way of doing it, and then we have to
have a way of
analyzing it, and then we have to have a way of sharing
it.” [Goldman Sachs
Builders And Innovators Summit, 10/29/13] *Hillary Clinton
Lamented How Far
Behind The State Department Was In Technology, Saying
“People Were Not Even
Allowed To Use Mobile Devices Because Of Security Issues.”
*“Personally,
having, you know, lived and worked in the White House,
having been a senator,
having been Secretary of State, there has traditionally
been a great pool of
very talented, hard-working people. And just as I was
saying about the credit
market, our personnel policies haven’t kept up with the
changes necessary in
government. We have a lot of difficulties in getting—when
I got to the State
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embarrassing. And, you
know, people were not even allowed to use mobile devices
because of security
issues and cost issues, and we really had to try to push
into the last part of
the 20th Century in order to get people functioning in
2009 and ‘10.” [Goldman
Sachs Builders And Innovators Summit, 10/29/13] *CLINTON
REMARKS ARE PRO
KEYSTONE AND PRO TRADE* *Clinton: “So I Think That
Keystone Is A Contentious
Issue, And Of Course It Is Important On Both Sides Of The
Border For Different
And Sometimes Opposing Reasons…” *“So I think that
Keystone is a contentious
issue, and of course it is important on both sides of the
border for different
and sometimes opposing reasons, but that is not our
relationship. And I think
our relationship will get deeper and stronger and put us
in a position to
really be global leaders in energy and climate change if
we worked more closely
together. And that's what I would like to see us
do.” [Remarks at tinePublic,
6/18/14] *Hillary Clinton Said Her Dream Is A Hemispheric
Common Market, With
Open Trade And Open Markets. *“My dream is a hemispheric
common market, with
open trade and open borders, some time in the future with

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energy that is as
green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth
and opportunity for
every person in the hemisphere.” [05162013 Remarks to
Banco Itau.doc, p. 28]
*Hillary Clinton Said We Have To Have A Concerted Plan To
Increase Trade; We
Have To Resist Protectionism And Other Kinds Of Barriers
To Trade. *“Secondly, I
think we have to have a concerted plan to increase trade
already under the
current circumstances, you know, that Inter-American
Development Bank figure is
pretty surprising. There is so much more we can do, there
is a lot of low
hanging fruit but businesses on both sides have to make it
a priority and it's
not for governments to do but governments can either make
it easy or make it
hard and we have to resist, protectionism, other kinds of
barriers to market
access and to trade and I would like to see this get much
more attention and be
not just a policy for a year under president X or
president Y but a consistent
one.” [05162013 Remarks to Banco Itau.doc, p. 32] *CLINTON
IS MORE FAVORABLE TO
CANADIAN HEALTH CARE AND SINGLE PAYER* *Clinton Said
Single-Payer Health Care
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Primary Care,” But
“They Do Impose Things Like Waiting Times.” *“If you look
at countries that are
comparable, like Switzerland or Germany, for example, they
have mixed systems.
They don't have just a single-payer system, but they have
very clear controls
over budgeting and accountability. If you look at the
single-payer systems,
like Scandinavia, Canada, and elsewhere, they can get
costs down because, you
know, although their care, according to statistics,
overall is as good or better
on primary care, in particular, they do impose things like
waiting times, you
know. It takes longer to get like a hip replacement than
it might take here.”
[Hillary Clinton remarks to ECGR Grand Rapids, 6/17/13]
*Clinton Cited President
Johnson’s Success In Establishing Medicare And Medicaid
And Said She Wanted To
See The U.S. Have Universal Health Care Like In Canada.*
“You know, on
healthcare we are the prisoner of our past. The way we got
to develop any kind
of medical insurance program was during World War II when
companies facing
shortages of workers began to offer healthcare benefits as
an inducement for
employment. So from the early 1940s healthcare was seen as

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a privilege
connected to employment. And after the war when soldiers
came back and went
back into the market there was a lot of competition,
because the economy was so
heated up. So that model continued. And then of course our
large labor unions
bargained for healthcare with the employers that their
members worked for. So
from the early 1940s until the early 1960s we did not have
any Medicare, or our
program for the poor called Medicaid until President
Johnson was able to get
both passed in 1965. So the employer model continued as
the primary means by
which working people got health insurance. People over 65
were eligible for
Medicare. Medicaid, which was a partnership, a funding
partnership between the
federal government and state governments, provided some,
but by no means all
poor people with access to healthcare. So what we've been
struggling with
certainly Harry Truman, then Johnson was successful on
Medicare and Medicaid,
but didn't touch the employer based system, then actually
Richard Nixon made a
proposal that didn't go anywhere, but was quite far
reaching. Then with my
husband's administration we worked very hard to come up

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with a system, but we
were very much constricted by the political realities that
if you had your
insurance from your employer you were reluctant to try
anything else. And so
we were trying to build a universal system around the
employer-based system. And
indeed now with President Obama's legislative success in
getting the Affordable
Care Act passed that is what we've done. We still have
primarily an
employer-based system, but we now have people able to get
subsidized insurance.
So we have health insurance companies playing a major role
in the provision of
healthcare, both to the employed whose employers provide
health insurance, and
to those who are working but on their own are not able to
afford it and their
employers either don't provide it, or don't provide it at
an affordable price.
We are still struggling. We've made a lot of progress. Ten
million Americans
now have insurance who didn't have it before the
Affordable Care Act, and that
is a great step forward. (Applause.) And what we're going
to have to continue
to do is monitor what the costs are and watch closely to
see whether employers
drop more people from insurance so that they go into what

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we call the health
exchange system. So we're really just at the beginning.
But we do have
Medicare for people over 65. And you couldn't, I don't
think, take it away if
you tried, because people are very satisfied with it, but
we also have a lot of
political and financial resistance to expanding that
system to more people. So
we're in a learning period as we move forward with the
implementation of the
Affordable Care Act. And I'm hoping that whatever the
shortfalls or the
glitches have been, which in a big piece of legislation
you're going to have,
those will be remedied and we can really take a hard look
at what's succeeding,
fix what isn't, and keep moving forward to get to
affordable universal
healthcare coverage like you have here in Canada. [Clinton
Speech For
tinePublic – Saskatoon, CA, 1/21/15]

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