Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton (born Hillary Rodham), Democrat of New York, is the first woman to be a leading candidate for President. She served as First Lady when her husband Bill Clinton was president (1993-2001). A Democrat, in 2000 she was elected Senator from New York, and reelected in 2006. Her most controversial vote came in October 2002 when she backed President George W. Bush in endorsing an invasion of Iraq.

First Lady

Health Care reform

Gottschalk (2000) and Martin (2000) argue that the reform failed because of the close relationships among big business, big labor, antitax groups, social conservatives, the health care industry, and other disparate groups intent on maintaining the status quo in one of the largest and most costly sectors of the American conomy.

However, Wekkin (2005) argues that the 1993-94 health care reform proposals sponsored by President Clinton and drafted by Hillary Clinton were rejected because they were inherently flawed, not, as the President argued, because of a lack of effective marketing to Congress and the American public.

External links

• official presidential campaign website

Bibliography

• Carl Bernstein. A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton (2007) by Pulitzer Prize winner
• Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton (2007)
• Hastedt, Glenn P. and Anthony J. Eksterowicz. "First Lady Diplomacy: The Foreign Policy Activism of First Lady Clinton." Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations 2006 7(2): 57-67.

Health care reform

• Gottschalk, Marie. The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States (2000)
• Hacker, Jacob S. "Learning from Defeat? Political Analysis and the Failure of Health Care Reform in the United States." British Journal of Political Science 2001 31(1): 61-94. Issn: 0007-1234 Fulltext: in Cambridge Journals and Jstor
• Hacker, Jacob S. The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security. Princeton U. Press, 1997. 240 pp.
• Laham, Nicholas. A Lost Cause: Bill Clinton's Campaign for National Health Insurance. 1996. 251 pp. online edition
• Martin, Cathie Jo. Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy (2000).
• Wekkin, Gary D. "The 'Blame Game': What Went Wrong with Health Care Reform." White House Studies 2005 5(1): 53-64. Issn: 1535-4738