In last month's "American Prospect", Paul Starr writes about his part in the Clinton healthcare plan and why he felt it failed. It was the timing.  It was Bill more than Hill.  It was too generous. http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?arti cle=the_hillarycare_mythology

In last Monday's "Counterpunch" on line , Vincente Navarro who also was on the team presents a different view.  Navarro is Professor of Health and Public Policy at the Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A., and of Political Sciences in the Pompeu Fabra University, Spain. His tale is very interesting. The whole essay is a great read and I urge you to read it. http://www.counterpunch.org/navarro11122 007.html

He was put on the Clinton health care task force when Jesse Jackson, Dennis Rivera (then president of Local 1199, the foremost health care workers union),and himself pressured Hillary Clinton to include a "single -payer" advocate.  She asked Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition to come up with somebody and  they picked Navarro.  But he found himself not terribly welcome.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/ 06/07/edwards-tackles-are-we-safer-now/

Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards is set to hold a news conference in New York today to detail his own national security plan.

For six years, George Bush has hijacked the language of terrorism and used it to force through an ideological agenda that undermines our values and does nothing to undercut terrorism. ... by the Bush Administration's own admission, we are less safe today. Today, we know two unequivocal truths about the results of Bush's approach - there are more terrorists and we have fewer allies.

Senator Edwards continues:

I wrote a piece a year ago about why I thought the Bush Adminstration absolutely had a plan for post war Iraq and have updated it after reading the current "In These Times" cover story called "Spoils of War" which is an important  update on Naomi Klein's brilliant analysis in May of 2005.  

"We went to war without a plan," many Democrats repeat ad nauseum.   No, we didn't.  Rove and company had a plan and formed a coalition of the shilling.  A mixture of idealists (Neo-Cons), carpetbagger corporations like Halliburton, paranoids (Cheney, Rumsfeld and fearful militarists), and the purely cynical who as Thom Hartmann says in "They Died So Republicans Could Take Over the Senate" started this war to take over all branches of government and then bring down democracy as we know it.  "It was a war for political power" among the other reasons. http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0620 -22.htm

That's why the Bush regime won't leave Iraq.  It's not part of the plan.