Return of the Repressed

Via Drudge comes this link to an AP story on Sen. Hillary Clinton's agenda for the coming year:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to focus this year on improving health care, beginning with a proposal designed to modernize the sharing of medical information nationwide.

The senator, who as first lady presided over a failed effort at health care overhaul, told a gathering of about 100 New York City health care leaders at a Manhattan hospital on Monday that the current system "often seems fragmented, redundant, inefficient and bureaucratic."

"Americans need a new, modern, 21st-century version of health care delivery, based on the premise of information in the hands of the right people at the right time," Clinton said.

Pushing for something like this shows that Hillary's political instincts are sound--just about everyone hates their health insurance provider. But what a horrible rep--well-deserved-- she has on this issue.

The renewed specter of Hillary meddling in health care isn't the only '90s echo in today's news. There's also this Clinton-era personality hitting the spotlight again:

Gennifer Flowers Joins Cast of Boobs!

Is it too soon for '90s nostalgia? Sure, Jacko's back in the news on child-molesting charges, but what's Oasis up to? And Wendy, the Snapple
Lady?

Comments

[None]

To that point, Shattered Glass looks like a period piece, right down to the haircuts -- it's pretty funny, actually.

[ed]

Hillary is a vampire, and I have a feeling no ordinary wooden stake will do. Any ideas?

(If you're "listening", Mr. Ashcroft, I'm speaking metaphorically here. Nothing to see. Move along, move along.)

[Mikiel]

I don't find it so hard to believe that Hillary Clinton can say the current health care system "often seems fragmented, redundant, inefficient and bureaucratic," and then propose that the government (world-renowned for it's complete lack of inefficient bureaucracy) take over. But I am surprised that a room full of "health care leaders" can listen to that without reminding the senator that it was government regulation that caused the bureaucratic mess in the first place. At the very least, I would think treating a patient who has been poisoned by administering more poison would violate the Hippocratic Oath.

[Ron Bailey]

Nick: I enjoyed wallowing in the Clinton scandals as much as the next person, but it's way too soon for 1990s nostalgia.

[Ron Bailey]

Except nostalgia about the NASDAQ of course.

[Liam]

Uh, Oasis? They released an album in 2002, dude.

[Nick Gillespie]

"Liam" writes, "Uh, Oasis? They released an album in 2002, dude."

Of course they did, as the link to the official Web site makes clear. Let's face it, though, they're six months away from being the backup band for The Roger Clinton Experience.

[Will Spencer]

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand." -- Milton Friedman