With her solid victory over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the New York presidential primary Tuesday, Hillary Clinton took a big step toward clinching the Democratic Party nomination and taking her ambitious healthcare agenda into the November general election.
But Sanders and many of his supporters continue to debunk her commitment to progressive healthcare and social change and belittle her claims of past achievements. They point to her failure in the mid-1990s as field marshal for the Clinton administration's healthcare reform effort to win passage of universal coverage legislation as proof of her ineffectiveness and timidity in confronting powerful special interest groups.
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