Hillary Clinton

www.hillaryclinton.com

The bolded Divided We Fail principle is listed first, then the statement we identified for the candidate. In some cases, we may not have identified a statement for the corresponding principle.

We believe all Americans should have access to affordable health care, including prescription drugs, and these costs should not burden future generations.

Hillary's American Health Choices Plan covers all Americans and improves health care by lowering costs and improving quality… It puts the consumer in the driver's seat by offering more choices and lowering costs. If you're one of the tens of million Americans without coverage or if you don't like the coverage you have, you will have a choice of plans…and that coverage will be affordable…if you like the plan you have, you can keep it.

• Affordable: … The plan provides tax credits for working families to help them cover their costs.
• Available: … The insurance companies can't deny you coverage if you have a pre-existing condition.
• Reliable: It's portable. If you change or lose your job, you keep your health care.

(Campaign website, October 4, 2007, http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/healthcareplan/)

We believe wellness and prevention efforts, including changes in personal behavior such as diet and exercise, should be top national priorities.

"My plan also has a prevention initiative, requiring the insurance industry and public programs like Medicare and Medicaid to promote wellness as well as treat illness and provide every American with comprehensive preventive care." (Universal Health Care Speech, September 17, 2007) "Senator Clinton would make it a condition of doing business with the Federal government that health plans would coordinate public spending on prevention across federal programs in the Department of Health and Human Services to maximize high-priority prevention. A public-private collaboration would ensure that prevention reaches beyond the health care system and into schools, workplace, supermarkets and communities through free provision of preventive benefits. It would enlist a new prevention workforce including pharmacists, church leaders and others..."
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/files/pdf/healthcarecosts.pdf

We believe Americans should have choices when it comes to long-term care - allowing them to maintain their independence at home or in their communities with expanded and affordable financing options.

"My mother lives with us as well. And we see it every single day. I was pleased to pass a life span respite act that will begin to provide more support for people who do provide this caregiving. If we were to see our caregivers stop tomorrow and say they could no longer bear the financial, emotional cost of caregiving, that would be a $300 billion cost to replace what is done out of love and out of family and other relationships. So I think it's important that when we have universal healthcare, we know that people will have health care, but we also need to do more for respite care [and] long-term care tax credits..."
(The Democrats on Health Care and Financial Security, AARP-Iowa Public Television forum, Davenport, Iowa, September 20, 2007)

We believe our children and grandchildren should have an adequate quality of life when they retire. Social Security must be strengthened without burdening future generations.

"With respect to Social Security, I have a plan. It's called start with fiscal responsibility. That's what we were doing in the 1990s, and we had Social Security on a much better path than it is today because of the irresponsible spending policies of George Bush and the Republican Congress. If there are some of the long-term challenges that we need to address, let's do it in the context of having fiscal responsibility, and then let's put together a bipartisan commission and look at how we're going to deal with these long-term challenges. I am not going to balance Social Security on the backs of seniors and hardworking middle-class Americans."
(MSNBC Debate, October 30, 2007) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21562193/

We believe workers should be provided with financial incentives to save, should have access to effective retirement plans, and should be able to keep working and contributing to society regardless of age.

"I'm announcing my plan today to provide every single American with an easy, automatic opportunity to save for future through an account I'm calling an American Retirement Account. These accounts will take the best of the 401(k) plans and make them available to every working family…To give a strong incentive for saving, my plan will offer working and middle-class families generous matching tax cuts. For families making up to $60,000 a year, the government will match dollar for dollar the first $1,000 you save. For families making between $60,000 and $100,000, the plan will provide a 50 percent match…That means tens of millions of middle-class families will be eligible for matching tax cuts of up to $500 and $1,000 to help them build a nest egg."
(Campaign website, October 9, 2007, http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/speech/view/?id=3640)

We believe Americans of all ages should have access to tools to help manage their finances, and save for the future and better, easy to understand information to help them increase their financial literacy and manage their money wisely.

"The New Savers Act lays out a series of practical and relatively low cost steps we can implement to help Americans start saving more and create wealth for their kid's education, for the purchase of a home and for their retirement," said Senator Clinton. The Secretaries of the Treasury Department and the Department of Health and Human Services are instructed to undertake a number of programs and strategies to promote access to wealth building financial services. Efforts will focus on encouraging the use of electronic payments, linking benefits cards to savings products, and providing the resources, incentives, training and assistance to connect individuals to a variety of wealth building financial products and services.
(Senate website, August 6, 2007, http://www.senate.gov/~clinton/news/statements/details.cfm?id=280606

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