“One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that it conferred 'experience' on the despised and much-deceived wife. Well, the main 'experience' involved the comprehensive fouling-up of the nation's health-care arrangements, so as to make them considerably worse than they had been before and to create an opening for the worst-of-all-worlds option of the so-called HMO, combining as it did the maximum of capitalist gouging with the maximum of socialistic bureaucracy. This abysmal outcome, forgiven for no reason that I can perceive, was the individual responsibility of the woman who now seems to think it entitles her to the presidency.” PoliticsUnited StatesCapitalismExperienceSocialismHealth CareWhite HouseBureaucracyHillary ClintonBill Clinton2008United States Elections 2008Health Care In The United StatesClinton Health Care Plan Of 1993Health Maintenance Organization Author:Christopher Hitchens