HillaryCare II; Say Good-Bye To Your Money
The tax money abyss knows as HillaryCare has been sighted recently. This time it want's to suck $110 billion of taxpayers dollars per year.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is unveiling a sweeping health care proposal Monday that would require everyone to carry health insurance and offer federal subsidies to help reduce the cost of coverage.
Fulfilling a pledge to bring health care to all, Clinton's "American Health Choices Plan" has a price tag of about $110 billion per year. It represents her first major effort to achieve universal health coverage since 1994, when the plan she authored during her husband's first term collapsed.
"It is long past time that Americans and the richest of all countries realize that health care is a right and not a privilege," Clinton said at a labor forum in Chicago. "And that goes especially for people who work hard every single day."
The former first lady says she has learned from the 1990s experience, which almost derailed Bill Clinton's presidency and helped put Republicans in control of Congress for years to come. Aides say she has jettisoned the complexity and uncertainty of the last effort in favor of a plan that stresses simplicity, cost control and consumer choice.
The centerpiece of Clinton's plan is the so-called "individual mandate," requiring everyone to have health insurance — just as most states require drivers to purchase auto insurance. Rival John Edwards has also offered a plan that includes an individual mandate, while the proposal outlined by Barack Obama does not.
It's not that I really disagree with a national health plan. But, you know that when democrats get a hold of it, it will turn into this giant, bloating, bureaucracy. I think it should be targeted to those who make too much for medicare/medicaid, yet don't make enough to pay for a private health care plan.
Many people in lower paying jobs are essentially punished for working. Those who are on any type of federal assistance are better off staying on it, than working. Some of the people that work at my store are single mothers. Being a cashier is not a high paying job. If you're exceptional at it, you may top out around $8.00/hr. They lose all benefits at that amount. Once you hit $7.00/hr, their benefits begin to decrease. Minimum wage is only $6.85. If you want people to get off welfare and get to work, in order to have a successful transition, you need some aid to continue. If they're working, they contributing taxes also.
