by Mark Silva
Sen. Hillary Clinton is promising "universal health care.''
Her campaign is just a little slow in paying for it for staffers.
Among the debts reported this month by the New York senator's presidential campaign, Politico.com has unearthed: $292,000 in unpaid health insurance premiums for her campaign staff
Clinton, facing pressure within her party to drop her campaign against Sen. Barack Obama, already has at times asked campaign workers to work without pay and loaned her campaign $5 million of her own funds.
But health insurance -- the promise of it for all -- is something that has been central to her camapign for president from the start.
The campaign provides health insurance to all its employees, spouses, partners and children – and that wasn’t interrupted by any lag in payments to insurance providers, Jay Carson, a Clinton campaign spokesman, has told Politico.
The campaign this month paid off all of its outstanding bills to Aetna Healthcare and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, he says by way of explanation. "Those payments will be reflected on a report the campaign will file this month with the Federal Election Commission, which Carson said will show 'zero debt owed to both vendors,''' Politico reports today.
“Sometimes invoices are not paid immediately because we need additional information for our records, or to verify expenses,” Carson said in a statement emailed to Politico. “Sometimes invoices arrive at the very end of the month at the cut-off of the reporting period, which means that we are required to report them as a debt on the current FEC report, even where they are paid in regular course during the next month.”
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Comments
Hillary Clinton is a two-faced liar! Can you imagine what she would do if she was elected a President of the United States? Making the poor and middle class PAY for health care when they can not pay for food and utilities now and other necessities, tells me she is not at all in touch with the United States citizens! Hillary please go away (to China) PLEASE!!!
Posted by: Tom | March 31, 2008 1:06 PM
Wow, Clinton's debts are monumental, especially from that article in MSNBC site.
Posted by: RuthieM | March 31, 2008 1:23 PM
“Sometimes invoices are not paid immediately because we need additional information for our records, or to verify expenses,” Carson said in a statement emailed to Politico
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Funny how they need so much more information than Obama's campaign with a slim fraction of the same campaign debts.
It's pretty much a given that Clinton is stiffing small businesses so she can spend her cash on ad buys and the like. Her campaign has been a fiscal disaster since Jan. 2008 -- should she really be trying to steer the nation's economy in Jan. 2009?
Posted by: Jeff V. | March 31, 2008 1:51 PM
The 28% of Clinton supporters that would vote for Mccain in November if Obama gets the nominee are not racist, as the media portrays them. However, they are IGNORANT
Clinton supporters keep trying to incriminate Obama, he has lied about or done in the past does not amount to the horrific things that Cruella devHILL has done! LOL! Lets look at the encyclopedia of scandals, lies, and conspiracies that surround Hillary and let us see you all try to argue :)
Obama/Edwards '08
Posted by: LSU for Obama | March 31, 2008 1:53 PM
Obama generation gang, why don't you get a real job!
Posted by: jp,michigan | March 31, 2008 2:32 PM
Hey jpmichigan, why don't you get a real CANDIDATE! Since Hill tells tall tales compulsively, and Mccain is senile.....
Obama '08
Posted by: LSU for Obama | March 31, 2008 5:06 PM
The Carpetbagger Should Check Out The Health Care System In NY.
The health care system does not need, nor can we afford, the overhaul demanded by Hillary Clinton. Perhaps, we could begin by insuring the uninsured instead of reinventing the system. I know that she is a newcomer to New York State but the Healthy New York program(s) is unbelievably comprehensive. She really should look into it. This article reminds me of when Ted Kennedy was fighting for universal health care and none of the employees of the Chicago merchandise mart which the Kennedy’s owned were offered health insurance. Hypocrisy thy name is Hillary
Posted by: james d granata | March 31, 2008 5:17 PM
"MERK AND FERC SPEAKS"
NOT EVEN A CLINTON CAN AVOID OUR HIGH COST OF LIVING MEDICAL CARE.
NOT EVEN A CLINTON CAN AVOID THE "VYTORIN" EFFECTS OF HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA.
NOT EVEN A CLINTON CAN AVOID THE WAISTE AND ABUSE COSTS IN HEALT CARE IN AMERICA.
NOT EVEN A CLINTON CAN AVOID MEDICAID, AND MEDICARE PAYMENTS NOT RECEIVED FROM MEDICAID OR MEDICARE.
NOT EVEN A CLINTON CAN AVOID "HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE"
NOT ONE DRUG, BUT TWO DRUGS, BUT THREE DRUGS, BUT FOUR DRUGS.
NOT EVEN A CLINTON CAN AVOID THE HIGH COST IN "CORPORATE HEALTH CARE COST" IN AMERICA.
IT WAS DESIGNED TO BREAK YOU, AND YOU, AND YOU, AND YOU, AND YOU, AND YOU, AND YOU AND ME TOO!
NOT EVEN A CLINTON CAN AFFORD HEALTHCARE. THAT IS WHY HER PLAN IS A "PLAN"
I KNOW WHAT A CONCEPT!
"IT MAKES ALL OF THE SENSE IN THE WORLD"
Posted by: Roger Morris | March 31, 2008 7:03 PM
Do you really think that a socialist canidate would know how to provide benefits to her employees?
Posted by: Terry | March 31, 2008 7:34 PM