New York Senator and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton Monday unveiled a sweeping health care plan which will ensure the coverage of all Americans.
"Here in America, people are dying because they couldn't get the care they needed when they were sick," Clinton said as she unveiled the "American Health Choices" plan at a campaign event in Iowa, the first voting state.
The plan, her first major effort to achieve universal health coverage since 1994 when she failed in the first attempt during President Bill Clinton's office, would preserve existing healthcare systems and meanwhile help about 47 million Americans without insurance.
Clinton said federal tax subsidy would be one of the key components to help individuals pay for coverage. The plan will cost some 110 billion U.S. dollars per year.
The female presidential hopeful will also propose several specific measures to pay for her plan, including an end to some tax cuts for people with an annual salary of more than 250,000 dollars, her aids said.
The plan, however, even before being unveiled, incurred attacks from both Democratic and Republican parties.
Republican front-runner, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said in a released memo that the plan would raise taxes and make Americans suffer the delay that happened to people covered by state healthcare insurance in Canada and Britain.
Clinton's strongest Democratic contender, Senator Barack Obama, said the plan was similar to his, but did not do enough to reduce cost.
Source: Xinhua
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