Politics

Obama-Clinton ticket ‘on the table’

8:01 PM 10/05/2010

Chad Brady (admin)

Some called a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton pairing the “Dream Ticket” in 2008. It didn’t happen.

But what about 2012?

“It’s on the table,” veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward told CNN’s John King in an interview for John King, USA to air Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET. “Some of Hillary Clinton’s advisers see it as a real possibility in 2012.”

The scenario – whereby Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would switch positions – has been bandied about by political observers for months, seen by some as a potentially savvy strategy to gin up excitement among what appears to be a depressed Democratic base.

But it’s never been clear if the idea has been actually discussed in the White House, until now.

Tags: Bob Woodward, CNN, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, White House

JoeJ

Hillary would be much smarter to just go for president.

Obama is weak – very weak – by 2012 his only real “success” health care, will be seen for what it is – a disaster for the elderly and the working poor.

It has already started with the cancelation of seniors supplemental insurance plans and McDonald’s covering of their workers health insurance.
- oeno
  
  McDonald’s actually refuted that story within the hour and Medicare Advantage was on the chopping block from the get go (Seniors just revert to their original Medicare plan or another Medicare Advantage plan), with the exception of high population senior states like Florida and Pennsylvania. When it was revealed that Florida (for some reason Pennsylvania was not even mentioned, though it has one of the highest senior populations in the country)was getting an exemption holy heck broke loose.
  
  I have a friend in Oklahoma who was worried about losing her Medicare Advantage and then saw the piece from Iowa today. Did a little bit of looking at Kaiser Foundation numbers, but I’m wondering if anyone knows if Medicare Advantage happens to skew more to less populated areas that have a larger doctor to patient ratio that strains them as far as taking a Medicare patient at lower overall pay vs. a healthy individual.
  
  It’s Bob Woodward though, so I’ll take this idea with a silo of salt.
  - JoeJ
    
    Thanks for your reply.
    
    Personally my supplemental insurance is being cancelled – I will be able to get on to another plan – but not without some worry – why is this even happening?
    
    As to McDonald’s, “where there is smoke there is fire” – that missive when out for an actual reason – of course it had to be shut up and denied – but there surly was something there.
    - oeno
      
      Honestly I didn’t pay a ton of attention to the shifting sands of Medicare Advantage during the health care debate. I knew that a lot of the “savings” were coming from axing it, but I was watching the moving pieces of the Medicaid expansion (that scared me more than anything, since states are on average already spending 21 cents out of every dollar on Medicaid and if I remember correctly the Feds drop back to their usual contribution levels in 2019). There were carve outs for Florida and Pennsylvania, but that caused a huge stink and they were scrapped. It’s not like they couldn’t have tailored the carve outs for under served areas that need Medicare Advantage for seniors to get the care that they need. I sent an e-mail to a friend that used to work in the health care industry to ask him about whether Medicare Advantage skewed towards more rural areas.
Tess_Comments

An Obama-Clinton ticket for the 2012 presidency would really sink the USA.
libertyatstake

Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

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Hex

Yeah right, Hillary is to politically smart to want to play “second fiddle” to an already proven one-term disaster!