Posted on 02/22/2008 4:36:57 PM PST by Daffynition
Hillary Clinton just raised her campaign pledge for universal health care to the level of a new Constitutional right, telling a crowd in De Pere, Wis., today that the way things stand in America it’s OK to discriminate against the sick.
It’s actually an idea being floated by Wisconsin Rep. Steve Kagen, a doctor who introduced Clinton here at St. Norbert’s College. (She gave him credit.)
But Hillary embraced it wholly, and made it her own.
“Under our Constitution, no one is supposed to be discriminated against. That’s part of our values, that’s our law in America. Except sick people can be discriminated against,” she said, recouting Kagen’s argument, which he plans to try and turn into legislation.
“When you’re sick you can lose your insurance; when you’re sick, you can be charged so much more that you can’t pay for it,” before segueing into her own familiar litany of people’s health care tragedies, and apparently embracing Kagen’s concept.
“We have to start asking ourselves, ‘Do we want to enshrine discrimination in our health care system, the one area where of our lives where we’re most vulnerable?’” Clinton told the crowd.
“The Constitution says you can’t discriminate against somebody because of what color they are or what religion they are,” she went on. “Why is it OK to discriminate against somebody who is born with a heart defect, or who is diagnosed with prostate cancer?
“I think it’s time we say, ‘We’re not going to let the health insurance industry say who lives and who dies.and who gets health care in this country,” she concluded to applause that drowned out her final words.
Rep. Kagen, it seems, is onto something in his district around Green Bay.depereA021808.jpg For her part, Clinton has talked about health care being a moral right, but we can’t recall her ever elevating it to the Constitutional level before. We’re betting we hear more of this from her.
That’s just Daffy!
Well, since hardly anyone reads the Constitution, and even if they did, the art of critical thinking is rather lost these days, she can say it says anything she wants it to say. The media will repeat it, and it becomes the accepted truth.
Ok, but can we still discriminate against stooopid sheeple?
So who is being discriminated against?
Article...Section?
Let’s assume for a minute that Hillary is right - that Healthcare is a constitutional right. It would certainly also follow that food is also a right - that doesn’t mean you nationalize all the farms and grocery stores. At most it means you provide emergency food for those too poor to otherwise eat.
Just wait until she comes for your guns. Our last defense will be with the SCOTUS.
>applause that drowned out her final words
That’s ok. Just filter on the one singular frequency she uses when she talks, and I bet you can get a nice recording.
Not entirely correct. There is still one other.
It's not OK. But there is nothing in the Constitution that says I must pay to correct mistakes from anybody's God given bodies. And I will in no shape or form pay for sex change operations...
LOL A chicken in every pot ... a ‘Vette in every garage.
Actually the last defense would be an ar...., well an uprising of the people, if you catch my drift.
We just might live long enough to see another 1776. It just won’t be against the British this time.
No our last defense will be our guns.
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