The Next Bite Paying For Health Care
That would amount to another broken promise from candidate Clinton. Throughout the campaign, he repeatedly said he could pay for extending health coverage to the 36 million uninsured Americans simply by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse in the system, which he estimated to be more than $200 billion. But even if the rest of his reform plan does hold down costs, which is by no means certain, most of the savings would go to private businesses and insurers....