During a forum at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Las Vegas, Clinton was asked why as a candidate for president she is “still insisting” on bringing “socialized medicine” to the United States, when people are “pulling away” from similar systems in Canada and Great Britain. Worse, the questioner said, such systems hurt rather than help poor people.

“That was a string of misrepresentations about me and about the systems in other countries,” Clinton started. “Number one, I have never advocated socialized medicine, and I hope all the journalists here heard that loudly and clearly because that has been a right-wing attack on me for 15 years.”

“Do you think Medicare is socialized medicine?” Clinton asked her inquisitor…

A rhetorical question, but one that Hillary assumed would lead to a conclusion that one can only hope the rest of the country would not.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ content/article/2007/08/09/AR2007080902346_2.html

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