By Grace-Marie Arnett, president, Galen Institute, a national health policy organization Hillary Rodham Clinton is not a doctor. Let's hope so, because nothing could be more important to New Yorkers than understanding this vital issue's impact on working families. Throughout her career in Washington and Arkansas, Hillary has proven her enthusiasm for making Big Government even bigger. Now she seeks the opportunity to enact more policies that would wrest money, freedom and personal control from working families and deliver them to politicians in Washington. Nowhere is this more true than in the health care arena.
American medicine remains the highest-quality on Earth.
But reforms still are badly needed. This number has climbed steadily since Hillary arrived in Washington in 1993. Such ideas would leave money in people's hands to invest in the health coverage they desire. Likewise, many New York seniors struggle to purchase prescription drugs. Yet Hillary vigorously opposes giving seniors a choice of drug benefit plans or providing targeted prescription drug assistance to the neediest of seniors.