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South Carolina Confirms Earlier Date for GOP Primary
"To a degree," he responded.
"Well, then you are in a small minority in America," Clinton said to applause, before explaining that Medicare allows patients to choose their doctors even though the federal government foots the bill with money deducted from workers' paychecks.
  At the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Las Vegas, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton defended her health-care views. (By Jae C. Hong -- Associated Press) |
Clinton then asserted that "on balance," countries with uniform national systems of health care, including Japan, Australia and Canada, offer better health care than the United States. The answer left her questioner shaking his head in disagreement.
"I can give you the statistics, and you can shake your head," Clinton said sharply. "You come and introduce yourself to the staff. And we'll try to give you some information if you're interested in being educated instead of being rhetorical."
-- Michael A. Fletcher
LOOKING OUT FOR HIS PARTY
Huckabee Warns GOP Against Romney Nomination
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee warned that nominating Mitt Romney would leave the Republican Party vulnerable to Democratic charges of flip-flopping that could endanger GOP chances of winning the White House in 2008.
Huckabee said he does not doubt the authenticity of the former Massachusetts governor's conversion on social issues, most notably abortion. "I'm just going to assume that if he says he's solidly pro-life now, he is," he said.
But during an interview for washingtonpost.com's PostTalk series, Huckabee said that would not stop Democrats from going after Romney if he becomes the nominee.
"Let's assume everything is hunky-dory with his views now," he said. "The problem is not so much where he is but where he was, and the fact that that's a change, and not just on that issue but on a number of others."
-- Chris Cillizza and Dan Balz
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