Health At Any Price
© 03.24.08 By Elisa Williams
This arricle originally appeared at ElisaWilliams.com
How would it feel to be penalized because you chose not to pay for health insurance?
“It’s time to provide quality affordable health care for every American,” says Mrs. Clinton “And I intend to be the president who accomplishes that goal finally for our country.”
Bravo! But lets be a little more clear. Hillary Clinton is not here to just provide health care, she is here to see that every last American obtains health care–even if it has to be shoved down their throat.
With her newly conceived health plan in tow, Mrs. Clinton has been giving plenty of lip service to her concern for those Americans who are “dying because they couldn’t get the care they needed when they were sick” (never heard of them myself). However, she doesn’t seem too concerned about the financial burden her plan would place on Americans, especially lower income families, who have chosen to avoid the added expense. The only thing she is concerned about it forcing her plan through. With a whopping 110 billion dollar price tag and the expectation of escalating prices in health insurance to cover all the unqualified recipients, qualified by “Health Care Choices,” Hillary’s health plan wasn’t created to lower taxes or cut government spending.
Speaking at a rally in San Diego Hillary Clinton said, “….if we don’t move for universal coverage, we’ll still have people falling though the cracks.”
Well, we wouldn’t want that. Herd them up and load them in tight. If they can’t see what’s best for them we’ll make them see.
Mrs. Clinton said her plan also calls for preventive efforts and healthy lifestyle measures that can only be effective if everyone is covered.
“That’s only possible if everybody is included,” said Clinton. “Who would we decide to leave out?”
What will be next? Mandatory government nutrition programs? Penalties for not exercising? For eating a doughnut? How far will it go?
WHAT I find most disgusting about Clinton’s health plan though, isn’t the outrageous cost. Nor is it the prospect of government rationed health care, in an attempt to keep the price of health care from eating our economy, and a waiting list much like Canada’s–only we wouldn’t be able to find health care across the border. No, what really has me mad is that Hillary Clinton thinks she knows what is best for us. You, me. She knows, we don’t. We simply aren’t capable of making such a choice ourselves. We don’t have the right to make the decision to go without health insurance and save our money because that’s bad for us. Why? Because Hillary says so. Outrageous.
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