In the video, three people involved with the health care reform bill of the Clinton administration discuss whether President Obama can succeed with the reform where Clinton failed. These three analysts included Donna Shalala, Harold Ickes, and Kenneth Thorpe, President Clinton’s Health and Human Services Secretary, Deputy Chief of Staff, and Health Care Reform Bill contributor (respectively). Since all were previously involved with the Health Care issue, they each obviously still support the Obama administration’s initiative to once again promote the health care reform. Thus, the debate is a one-sided affair as the audience does not receive any other point-of-view over if the bill should even be passed rather than if it can pass.
Donna Shalala gives a lot of details with her answers to back up her arguments whether over why today is different from fifteen years ago or about the public option. While most of her answers are based on logic and evidence, after she answers the designated question she tends to also add her personal opinion; in her final question about the public option, she seems to speak personally when stating that something must be done to hold the insurance industry accountable for their actions. Thorpe is obviously the one most informed about the previous bill as he was a part of its creation. Whether because of this, he also seems the one most objectionable and logical about the issue. He gives specific examples about the desired cause of the bill, as well as why it is able to possibly be successful this time around. Ickes mostly gave more general statements about the issues of the bill (with terms about “substance” and the “politics” of getting the bill passed) without much specification. At the interview’s end, he begins to vaguely discuss key elements to drive forth health care but doesn’t detail any of this or what exactly the bill he feels the bill may need.
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