The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : Herman Cain vs. Bill Clinton

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Via Joshua Green, here is the video of 2012 GOP hopeful Herman Cain debating Bill Clinton on the impact the Clinton health care reform plan would have on his business in 1994. You can easily see how Cain got into talk radio.

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Richard Baker| 1.18.11 @ 11:59AM

Remember this well. Cain cogently answered "Slick Willy's" absurd assertion with reality. Did you ever notice that Clinton always advocates less for you and me but gets MORE for himself as some sort of Divine Right? What's his net worth these days?

MikeN| 1.18.11 @ 3:54PM

I have to say, I'd agree with Bill Clinton there listening to the video, even though I trust Herman Cain's numbers. If it is 7.9% of payroll, and payroll is about 30%, then you are left with a 2.4% increase in costs.

Teflon93| 1.18.11 @ 4:45PM

Cain is correct---Slick Willie wanted to talk about only those workers who already had coverage, which was about 1/3 of his payroll. Cain pointed out that under Clintoncare he would have had to pay for the other 2/3 of his workers, who had no coverage, thereby a much higher total.

Clinton is also an economic illiterate on prices. Prices are set by customers, not businesses. If the price of pizza rose 17% tomorrow, would you buy more or less pizza?

As demand for pizza drops, the pressure on Cain's operating costs and profit margin grows. This is because he can no longer by his ingredients and raw materials in the same bulk he could before---and their prices will be going up to pay for the healthcare of their workers too, right?

Clinton is both a moron and a demagogue.

Dale Cord| 1.19.11 @ 12:11PM

The Bible has the last word on this whole mental disorder in America. "There is no justice in the land"! Clinton and all of the past Presidents and political employees hired by the people, to govern over America and have committed crimes against the Constitution, Declaration of Independence,Bill of Rights that were once our life support, should have been incarcerated in our prison system, when found guilty by our shear common sense and wisdom to perceive Right from Wrong given to us by our Creator. Instead we have allowed them all to create the criminal culture we now fight with rhetoric to survive in.What a decadent deplorable and putrid society we have become, void of self examination and denying its truth of self incrimination