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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. 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 plan is quickly derided as "Hillarycare" by its opponents; some protesters against it become vitriolic, and during a July a bus tour to rally support for the plan, she is forced to wear a bulletproof vest. The plan does not receive enough support for a floor vote in either the House or the Senate, although both chambers are controlled by the Democrats, the proposal is abandoned in September
As First Lady of the United States, her major initiative, the Clinton Health Care Plan, fails to gain approval from the US Congress
Republicans make the Clinton Health Care Plan a major campaign issue of the 1994 midterm elections, which see a net Republican gain of fifty-three seats in the House election and seven in the Senate election, winning control of both.
The plan does not receive enough support for a floor vote in either the House or the Senate, although both chambers are controlled by the Democrats, the proposal is abandoned in September.
The plan is quickly derided as "Hillarycare" by its opponents; some protesters against it become vitriolic, and during a July a bus tour to rally support for the plan, she is forced to wear a bulletproof vest.
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