HEALTH INSURANCE PROOF REQUIRED FOR WORK
Posted on 09/18/2007 2:33:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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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“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 “
Nothing mandatory here, just no insurance, no job (unless you are here illegally).
How does Hillary Doublespeak Clinton propose to enforce a "mandate" without "punitive measures"?
“If not, what are we going to do about it?”
Change your registration to (D) and vote in the (D) primary?
Inform fence-sitters and other people likely to swing of the horrid, expensive nature of mandatory government health insurance?
Get out the conservative vote?
Good plan Democrats. Encourage more people not to work. Gee, if I get a job I have to pay for my own health insurance. Screw that, I’ll just work “under the table”. Of course the Dems will also MoveOn to carbon harassment and make sure industry lays off even more and moves out of the country.
So if you lose your job and can’t afford insurance, then you’ll never be able to get another job.
That’ll keep them on welfare.
“How does Hillary Doublespeak Clinton propose to enforce a “mandate” without “punitive measures”?”
I’d pay money to hear Clinton and Romney debate this for an hour. His Massachusetts plan also is not mandatory, you just have to do it or the state takes the money from you anyway.
I don’t suppose we’ll here, “US Govt. out of my body” from the Gloria Steinam crowd, on this one.
I’d just love to hear her expound on how much better our universal health care will be than the care we receive now. The quality of care will plummet and only the rich will be able to afford more expensive health insurance for private doctors. People in this country that want an NHS should have to live under an NHS before voting. Government run health care is mediocre at best. And we will all get the same mediocre treatment.
something isn't tracking here.
The key word is "at this point". Watch out for "that point" coming. It depends what IS is. BJ did not have a sex with that women and sKerrrrry was in Vietnam.
“She is the American equivalent of Hugo Chavez, and I don’t know why more people can’t see it!!”
I think that’s because the media loves her and protects her. They’re doing it now voluntarily, but maybe later the volunteer fator will be mandatory, with no planned punishments for right now.
Another related line of thought - If you must have insurance before getting a job, companies won’t need to provide it anymore as a benefit and they won’t. Think about how this will impact the benefits package that comes along with a job. With no health insurance, salaries and retirement plans will be a greater discriminator in selecting among more that one job offer. Also, the employee will be less tied to a job for health insurance reasons. There are numerous impacts, some good, some bad, and they should be mentioned.
think Federal Income Tax. :(....Its sickening how, G*D_D@MN LMSM, are "swooning over this loss of choice"
ANOTHER POINT OF INFO ON HILARYCARE (illegals)
At a press briefing after Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s health care rollout Monday, senior policy advisers said the New York senator’s plan does not currently include any details on whether illegal immigrants will be covered.
Senior policy adviser Laurie Rubiner–while acknowledging that undocumented immigrants are a “huge issue” in this country–said, “That’s one we’re going to have to think through a little bit.”
“We have not dealt with every single detail with this plan,” Rubiner continued.
When asked if it would be safe to assume that the Democratic frontrunner, at this point, has no position on coverage for illegal immigrants advisers answered “yes” and said the plan does not “at this point” deal with that issue.
Plus, apparently SHE is calling for tax breaks as incentives and to force everyone to purchase private health insurance? Am I getting this right?
think Federal Income Tax.
Nonpayment of taxes doesn't result in punitive measures?
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