Posted on 02/08/2008 8:00:41 AM PST by GoldwaterInstitute
Clinton Care 2.0: Clinton's new health care proposal is as intrusive as the 1993 version
by Clint Bolick
Largely lost amidst attention over Super Tuesday was Sen. Hillary Clinton's admission on Sunday that her proposed universal health care program would come with a huge dose of government coercion.
Associated Press reported that Clinton said she would achieve universal coverage by "going after people's wages" and "automatic enrollment." The healthy must support the sick, the senator insists, and must be forced to join a government health insurance program willingly or not.
Ironically, liberals who are fighting for government-compelled health care are risking a principle they worked very hard to establish in the law. The U.S. Supreme Court decisions recognizing the right to have an abortion rest in large measure upon the intimate relationship between patients and their physicians, a relationship upon which the government may not lightly intrude. In their zeal, they would have the federal government decide a matter presently left to individual choice.
All of this underscores the importance of efforts by two Arizona physicians, Eric Novack and Jeff Singer, to place a state constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would prohibit the government from interfering with individual decisions regarding health insurance. Should Clinton Care 2.0 pass at the national level, the measure would set off a major federalism battle.
In the meantime, the face of the nanny state has never been so vivid. Americans surely want access to affordable health insurance, but not by coercion or compulsion.
Clint Bolick is the director of the Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation at the Goldwater Institute.
The question is when do we say “ENOUGH” and begin the revolution?
This universal health care scares the crap out of me!!
Why would we be forced to pay for a system that has proven to fail? When you talk to the average liberal, they say,”We need Universal health care because name the country has it.” Or,”we need universal health care because we are the only industrialized country without it.” never defend it on it’s merits, because they cannot.
They don’t seem to realize that many people from other countries providing socialized care come to OUR country for our medicine.
Maddening.
Liberals have told me that “With the right people in charge we can make it work” and then I ask the ideologues why it is that the UK, Sweden and Canada haven’t put the “right” people in charge. They use the putting the right people in charge for why communism has never worked too. Liberals never think what they are doing is wrong, even when it’s shown to fail, they just think that they haven’t done enough of it.
The Democrat’s version of choice:
You can CHOOSE to kill your unborn child, but you can’t CHOOSE if you want healthcare or not, it’ll be forced on you (per Hillary’s plan).
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