I haven't really followed her career as a senator but I followed with great interest her attempt to design a national health care system during the Clintons' first term. Reports on the proposed plan noted that participation in the new plan was to be mandatory -- patients who sought to purchase healthcare for cash outside Hillary's plan, or doctors who sought to practice outside Hillary's plan would both be subject to legal prosecution. It was stuff like this that scared people away and defeated the plan. Since that time I've often thought that an intelligent form of national healthcare would be a better than the patchwork of federal, state, local programs we have today. I buy my own medical insurance and it goes up 10 to 25 percent a year and a lot of that is the inefficient insurance system. I'd say Hillary is a sort of elitist socialist, for lack of a better term. To be fair I have to give her some credit for trying to build something she believed in even though the Clinton administration had absolutely no business putting her in charge of the project because Hillary was neither an elected official or a government employee and therefore she was accountable to no one.
