No podemos retirar.
Posted on 02/03/2008 2:29:07 PM PST by Kaslin
WASHINGTON - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing to garnish the wages of workers who refuse to buy health insurance to achieve coverage for all Americans.
The New York senator has criticized presidential rival Barack Obama for pushing a health plan that would not require universal coverage. Clinton has not always specified the enforcement measures she would embrace, but when pressed on ABC's "This Week," she said: "I think there are a number of mechanisms" that are possible, including "going after people's wages, automatic enrollment."
Clinton said such measures would apply only to workers who can afford health coverage but refuse to buy it, which puts undue pressure on hospitals and emergency rooms. With her proposals for subsidies, she said, "it will be affordable for everyone."
Clinton also suggested that Obama would be more susceptible to Republican attack ads in a general election because he has not been scrutinized for years as she has.
"I've been through the Republican attacks over and over again," she said. When Obama was elected to the Senate from Illinois in 2004, she said, he "didn't face anyone who ran attack ads" comparable to those aimed at her.
The presidential contenders in both parties campaigned all-out on Sunday, two days before the Super Tuesday voting in 24 states holding primaries or caucuses.
Clinton was campaigning in Missouri and Minneapolis. Obama scheduled a rally in Wilmington, Del., while some of his highest-profile surrogates — his wife, Michelle, Oprah Winfrey and Caroline Kennedy — were rallying voters in Los Angeles. Among Republicans, Arizona Sen. John McCain was stumping in Connecticut and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney scheduled stops in Glen Ellyn, Ill., and the St. Louis suburb of Maryland Heights. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was concentrating on the South, with appearances in Georgia and Tennessee.
McCain told "Fox News Sunday" he would veto any tax increase passed by a Democratic-controlled Congress. McCain, who opposed President Bush's first two tax cuts, now says Congress should make the reductions permanent, and that there also should be further tax reductions for business investments.
His chief rival, Romney, told the ABC program that McCain "doesn't understand the economy" and that his advocacy of a higher gasoline tax to combat global warming would hurt U.S. consumers.
Romney also called on Huckabee to drop from the race. In response, called the suggestion "ludicrous," noting that only a fraction of the delegates needed to win the Republican presidential nomination had been apportioned thus far.
"I've got a different take on that. I think it's time for Mitt Romney to step aside," Huckabee said on CNN.
So shouldn’t I have the right NOT to have health insurance if I so choose????
Dear Boss:
Go ahead. Take Hillary’s bait. Believe what she says. She already had her way with us. She’s after you “good ol’ boys” now. She’s going to put you out of business then out of your families.
Her friends preach each of their steps to power in their “women’s studies” courses. Their next step in practice is the crucial surprise and their greatest goal (though not their last).
And if you think that I’m afraid of all of that, read my tagline.
No, McCain is the Anti Reagan, you will pay for health care coverage because Michael Reagan says we should not consider McCain.
Hey, she stole that from Romney! He should sue her.
The democrats know what’s best for us I guess. What’s next? Are they going to impose an extra tax on people who don’t eat vegetables?
Billy Kess
ConservativeTrucker.com
According to Hitlary. NO
“What’s next? Are they going to impose an extra tax on people who don’t eat vegetables?”
Well for one they will force restaurants to decide if you are obese or not before they can serve you.
No she didn’t steal that from Romney. It was Edwards she stole it from
Hey cmon, you’ll have the right to marry a person of the same gender under her what more do you want.
Locked and loaded.
I mean no disrespect to you by this, but most women of Ann Coulter’s sex, class and religion voted for Clinton during the ‘90s due to their romantic (feminist, lustful) tendencies. I lived in a Parish and university of them then. Her announcement and the same announcement from others like her do not surprise me at all.
No podemos retirar.
Before you gloat too much, realize that John McCain would impose a similar tax on us to pay for all the illegals he hopes to give amnesty to. Already, their care, upkeep, and crimes are costing taxpayers a tremendous amount.
How is this constitutional?
The plan would require people to sign up for insurance if they can afford it. Anyone who didn’t sign up could have state income tax returns withheld and their wages garnished to pay for care, Romney said.
“It means everyone is covered by health insurance, or they pay their own way. One or the other,’’ he said.
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2005/06/23/56536.htm
What’s funny to me is watching the leftards realize that “free” healthcare isn’t “free”.
Now that is just sad ( a great picture though)
Hilde is trying to drag the US and the US worker down to a Cuban level of existence....
“All your wages ours now”
Nunca de communista en poder..
Once a socialist always a socialist.
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