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Hillary's health plan: Out of touch with reality
by Marina di Pisa
| Sept. 20, 2007 |
AP Interview: Clinton on health care| |
Excerpt: She said she could envision a day when "you have to show proof to your employer that you're insured as a part of the job interview -- like when your kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination," but said such details would be worked out through negotiations with Congress.
Clinton unveiled her health care plan Monday in Iowa, promising to bring coverage to every American by building on the current employer-based system and using tax credits to make insurance more affordable. |
Senator Clinton's thinking insults our intelligence and is almost delusional. Tax credits? To poor people? Requiring someone who is broke and out of work to prove that he has health insurance in order to get a job? How many people in the inner cities are going to be able to afford to front the insurance premiums and then wait 12 months to get their tax credits?
This way of thinking makes no sense, and to the extent that the government subsidizes health coverage, consumer prices will rise.
What we need is an increase in SUPPLY to offset demand. We need to break the stranglehold that the AMA, FDA and other organizations have over access to basic medical treatments. And we need to eliminate the costs incurred by insurance companies doing paperwork to deny coverage.
The first step is to eliminate health insurance for politicians. And they need pay cuts (if not confinement in mental wards :-), to bring their thinking back into line with reality.
Hillary is wrong about everything, and she is a practiced, serial liar. No one is going to accept her authority, especially in matters like this. I can just hear the good ole boyz' rebel yells...
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You know, I saw Sen Clinton's comments about proving health insurance to prospective employers cited in a different article… and as I read that article I told myself that the reporter must have misunderstood. I'm no fan of Hillary Clinton, but nobody could be that out of touch with real life among real humans on Planet Earth.
But now, seeing her comments in a second article with, as yet, no cry that she's been taken out of context or anything, I can only wonder how many decades it's been since Hillary Clinton spent any time at all with someone who wasn't rich if it wasn't a photo opportunity. |
AP Interview: Clinton on health care
by Beth Fouhy, Associated Press Sept. 18, 2007
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that a mandate requiring every American to purchase health insurance was the only way to achieve universal health care but she rejected the notion of punitive measures to force individuals into the health care system.
"At this point, we don't have anything punitive that we have proposed," the presidential candidate said in an interview with The Associated Press. "We're providing incentives and tax credits which we think will be very attractive to the vast majority of Americans."
She said she could envision a day when "you have to show proof to your employer that you're insured as a part of the job interview - like when your kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination," but said such details would be worked out through negotiations with Congress.
Clinton unveiled her health care plan Monday in Iowa, promising to bring coverage to every American by building on the current employer-based system and using tax credits to make insurance more affordable.
She told the AP she relished a debate over health care with her political opponents, including Republicans "who understood that we had to reform health care before they started running for president."
On Tuesday, Clinton began airing a 30-second ad statewide in Iowa and New Hampshire promoting her new health care plan. The ad reminds viewers of her failed effort to pass universal health care in the early 1990s, trying to portray a thwarted enterprise as one of vision.
"She changed our thinking when she introduced universal health care to America," the ad's announcer says.
The ad also highlights her support as senator for an expanded Children's Health Insurance Program and for more affordable vaccines.
Her health care plan would require every American to buy health insurance, offering tax credits and subsidies to help those who can't afford it. The mandatory aspect of her proposal, however, gets glossed over in the ad.
"Now she has a health care plan that lets you keep your coverage if you like it, provides affordable choices if you don't, and covers every American," the ad says.
The ad also continues her campaign's effort to appropriate the mantle of change away from rivals Barack Obama and John Edwards. The word change or its variations appears four times in the ad, which ends: "So, if you're ready for change, she's ready to lead."
Though her ads are airing in major markets in both states, they are appaearing with greater frequency in Iowa. Polls of voters in New Hampshire show her with a double digit lead over Obama and Edwards, but polls in Iowa show the three of them clustered together.
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