Hillary Care
September 25th, 2007 by
Senior Editor: Jeff
Last week, Senator Clinton revealed her plan for “improving health care.” The bullet points in the press release sound great: choice, good for small business, reining in insurance companies. However, if we look at a little more detailed description, we see that saying we have a choice is insulting.
Some high points:
1. Individuals will be required to have health insurance. So, yes, you have choice, as long as one of them is not going without insurance.
2. Employers will have to make sure you have insurance before they can hire you. Neal Boortz commented on this at length.
3. If you obtain a policy that has “too much coverage” you will have to pay a penalty. To the federal government.
4. It will only cost $110 billion. Right. Just like the prescription drug benefit Bush pushed on us would only cost $40 billion.
That Clinton wants a bigger government and bigger role of that government in our lives is not surprising. However, it raises a question:
Why is it that the same people who screamed bloody murder when Bush wanted to listen to your phone calls if you talked about blowing up buildings, now praise Clinton’s desire to push the government into our personal health care?
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