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   From: msnbchomo@espn.com   
      
   WASHINGTON — As Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to reshape the   
   nation's healthcare system in her husband's first term as   
   president, she got all the right advice from senior aides:   
   Consult closely with members of Congress, build bridges with   
   business leaders, communicate clearly to nervous voters, move   
   swiftly.   
      
   The first lady and her husband ultimately failed in nearly all   
   those efforts, nearly sinking Bill Clinton's presidency.   
      
   Thousands of documents released Friday, which detail that   
   failure as well as other policy disputes of the Clinton White   
   House, provide new details on what remains one of the defining   
   chapters in Hillary Clinton's career. The papers also foreshadow   
   the challenges the Obama administration would encounter as the   
   current president worked to pass the Affordable Care Act 16   
   years later.   
      
   Nervous and egotistic members of Congress, difficult policy   
   issues such as whether individuals should be required to buy   
   insurance, and worries that the administration might be   
   promising more than it could deliver all feature prominently in   
   the documents, released Friday by the National Archives.   
      
   So, too, does a steady current of concern by White House   
   staffers over the arcane policy as well as the process that the   
   first lady had established.   
      
   "By far the biggest problem is the complexity," White House   
   advisor Mike Lux noted in a January 1994 memo. "The complexity   
   of the bill is not only confusing, but frightening."   
      
   http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-hillary-clinton-documents-   
   20140301,0,6997521.story#axzz2ugktaUwh   
      
       
      
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