William Jefferson Bill Clinton22 September 1993
Announce a mandate for employers to provide health insurance coverage to all of their employees through competitive but closely-regulated health maintenance organisations (HMOs)
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Announce a mandate for employers to provide health insurance coverage to all of their employees through competitive but closely-regulated health maintenance organisations (HMOs)
The effort to create a national healthcare system ultimately dies under heavy public pressure, the first major legislative defeat of Clintons administration. Sets up a task force, headed by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, to come up with a comprehensive plan to provide universal health care for all Americans, cornerstone of the administration
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell announces that Clintons health plans are dead, at least for that session of Congress
Successfully increases research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health. Along with Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, she is a force behind passage of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program
Bill Clinton appoints Hillary Clinton to head and be the chairwoman of the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, hoping to replicate the success she had in leading the effort for Arkansas education reform
Plays a role in advocating the establishment of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act.
The recommendations of the task force become the Clinton Health Care Plan, a comprehensive proposal that would require employers to provide health coverage to their employees through individual health maintenance organisations.
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