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Clinton didn't pay health insurance bills
By KENNETH P. VOGEL | 3/31/08 10:50 AM EST

Clinton didn't pay health insurance bills - Kenneth P. Vogel - Politico.com

Among the debts reported this month by Hillary Clinton’s struggling presidential campaign, the $292,000 in unpaid health insurance premiums for her campaign staff stands out.


Among the debts reported this month by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s struggling presidential campaign, the $292,000 in unpaid health insurance premiums for her campaign staff stands out.

Clinton, who is being pressured to end her campaign against Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination, has made her plan for universal health care a centerpiece of her agenda.

The campaign provides health insurance to all its employees, their spouses, partners and children — and that wasn’t interrupted by any lag in payments to insurance providers, said Jay Carson, a Clinton campaign spokesman.

He said the campaign this month paid off all outstanding bills to Aetna Healthcare and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. 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.”

“Sometimes invoices are not paid immediately because we need additional information for our records, or to verify expenses,” Carson said in a statement e-mailed to Politico. “Sometimes invoices arrive at the very end of the month at the cutoff 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.”

But the unpaid bills to Aetna were at least two months old, according to FEC filings.

They show the campaign ended last year owing Aetna more than $213,000 for “employee benefits.”

During the first two months of the year, the campaign did not pay down any of that debt. In fact, it accrued another $16,000 in unpaid bills last month, and it finished the month owing Aetna $229,000.

Arizona Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, did not report any unpaid bills to insurance providers at the end of February. And the only insurance-related debt reported by Obama, an Illinois senator, was $908 to AIG American International Group for “insurance.”

Their campaigns also reported substantially less debt overall than Clinton’s, which owed $8.7 million at the end of February. Obama owed $625,000 and McCain $4.3 million, though most of his debt was from a bank loan, and only $1.3 million was in the form of unpaid bills to a dozen vendors.

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The_Heretic

All the more reason she can't handle healthcare for the country. i sure as shit don't want her manage my healthcare [lack thereof].

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The_Heretic

Actually it would be worse if a right wing managed it. The republicans would simply strip away all regulation and redistribute the wealth upwards to the top one percent.

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Environment Man

Well what's wrong with that?

julia

Careful, your tail is showing.

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aloysious

I have seen failing businesses. A campaign is a business in a way. They need money to operate.
This campaign really is taking on the look of a failing business while the competition is thriving financially.
It must be difficult for Hillary to sleep at night with the mounting unpaid bills.
Oh well, that's the risk of doing business. I'm in it (business, that is). One damn well better know what one is getting in to, and being a pathological lier is not good for the overall business plan.

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The_Heretic

What's interesting is that Obama's campaign bares the closest resemblance to a free market based on consumer demand.

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