Clinton will finish health care plan on Monday

Hillary Clinton plans to unveil the third, final, and perhaps thorniest part of her health care reform blueprint on Monday.

After having rolled out plans to lower health care spending and improve quality, she will detail proposals to ensure coverage for all Americans. She said the plan will, in part, dramatically rein in the influence of the insurance companies, because frankly I think that they have worked to the detriment of our economy and of our health-care system."

Her campaign said she will give her health care speech at a hospital in Des Moines in the first caucus state of Iowa.

"Obviously, I hope the headline is that, you know, Hillary is back, and we're going to get it done this time, because we tried and were not successful in '93-'94," Clinton said in interviews posted today for an online Democratic debate. "And as we all know, the problems of the uninsured and the underinsured, the pressures on doctors and nurses and hospitals, the loss of jobs with employers struggling to maintain health insurance is all much worse than it was when we were trying to do this before."

She said she has learned important lessons from the failure when, as First Lady, she was put in charge of a task force to come up with a reform plan.

"I learned, among other things, that we've got to build a consensus," she said on the "Democratic Candidates Mashup" sponsored by Yahoo!, HuffingtonPost.com, and Slate.com. "A plan is necessary but not sufficient. We've got to have a political consensus in order to withstand the enormous opposition from those interests that will have something to lose in a really reformed health-care system."