Clinton to unveil mandatory health care proposal

[Brutus]

DES MOINES, Iowa (CNN) -- Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton will roll out a health care reform plan on Monday that would cost the federal government around $110 billion and require all Americans to have health insurance, Clinton campaign sources said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/17/health.care/

[zengrifter]

If she's elected I'll use it, to a mostly limited extent... BUT, I'll still vote for Ron Paul first. zg

[moo321]

I think Zengrifter and I found something we can agree on.

[glovesetc]

isa start but how about people who can not afford health insurance at any cost due to unemployment , divorce , living over their head , or just do not make enough . I hate when a politician says affordable for all !!! What is affordable to a family making $75,000.00 a yearwith one child may not be affoprdable to a family with say 4 kids with 2 in college or whatever the circumstances may be . We need a universal health plan for sure but I lean towards an income tax or federal excise tax perhaps so the burden is shared equally .

[zengrifter]

HillaryCare 2.0

'Will she flinch? For months now, that's been the big question about Senator Hillary Clinton and health care. Nobody questioned her command of the issue or her interest in the subject. She'd proven all of that in 1993 and 1994, when she headed up her husband's health care task force and then became chief spokesperson for his ill-fated plan. But precisely because she "has the scars" from that experience, as she likes to say, many people wondered whether she'd be up for trying all over again. Would she be vague, figuring she had the least to prove on the matter and that details could only come back to haunt her? Would she settle on something less than universal coverage, figuring the political support for it was too weak? Would she kowtow to the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbies, which had started donating to her campaigns?

'The answer seems to be no, no, and no. In a speech before an Iowa audience today, Clinton unveiled a plan that, if enacted and implemented, would provide every single American with generous, but affordable, health insurance. It would do so by forcing both the insurance industry and drug-makers to change the way they do business, and requiring large employers to pay part of the nation's health care bill. It would also come with a serious price tag--for which she's identified serious sources of funding.'

(New Republic article).

[zengrifter]

Hillary Health Care II

'Democratic Presidential frontrunner Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) outlined her health care plan on Monday. "I believe that everyone—every man, woman and child—should have quality, affordable health care in America," Sen. Clinton declared in a speech in Iowa. The senator is responding to polls that show that health care is the number one domestic issue in the 2008 presidential race. In addition, the Census Bureau released new figures that found 47 million people in the United States do not have health insurance. And premiums have risen 78 percent in the last six years, to an annual cost of $12,106 per family.

'At the center of Sen. Clinton's plan is a requirement that every American get and keep a health insurance policy. The good news is that such an individual mandate could be the cornerstone for a thorough-going reform of health care into a private consumer-driven system. The bad news is this is not the direction that Sen. Clinton's plan takes. The senator is right when she declares, "Part of our health care system is the best in the world, and we should build on it; part of the system is broken, and we should fix it." Sadly, she's misdiagnosed what part is broken and what part is best.'

(Reason article).

[zengrifter]

6yes, 3no. Does this mean that ZZone is more Socialist than Fascist? zg

[SilentBob420BMFJ]

Originally Posted by zengrifter

6yes, 3no. Does this mean that ZZone is more Socialist than Fascist? zg

well some people probably just flat out guessed, and no nothing about politics, such as me, because polls are fun!