Clinton plays universal health card

FORMER president Bill Clinton said Democratic voters who support Barack Obama over his wife are missing out on an opportunity to back a universal health care system.

“It would be truly tragic if the Democratic Party walked away from universal health care for the first time in 60 years when we finally got the business community and the medical community in line behind us,” he said during a campaign swing through East Texas.

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health plan would require everyone to have health insurance and would provide government assistance to people who can’t afford it.