Health Insurance: Soon To Be A Work Requirement
Piggybacking On Dan McLaughlin's Post
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in Policy — Comments (14) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
The Nanny State advances anew:
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.
Um, what? When your child shows proof of vaccination to school authorities, he/she does so in order to show that he/she will not make the other kids sick by transmitting a disease he/she was not vaccinated for. Unless a lack of insurance is somehow contagious, the same issues do not apply here.
This is, of course, yet another reason for me to reaffirm my membership in the Anti-Universal Coverage Club. Note the observations about people being forced to obtain coverage and the dangers inherent in that approach. We are going down that road and we will regret the destination for all of the reasons that Michael Cannon states.
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It's to force people to enter the government-run "alternative" to private health insurance. They want to hook as many people as they can while they are young, poor, or out of work (or all of the above).
The beauty is that, since most people have health insurance through their job (thank you, FDR and wage controls), if you ever change jobs, you have to enter the government program, and since employers will know you have health insurance when you apply, they may be less inclined to offer it to you.
Not that I think this would ever fly (the Constitutionality of it alone is highly questionable), but it is scary how these people's minds work.
...and the "out of work" thing won't be hard to nail down.
Why is it that, to the Democrats, taxing labor is encouraged, but only taxing the labor of those who need employment the most? (Rhetorical question, I know, but roll with it, okay?)
"I don't understand why the same newspaper commentators who bemoan the terrible education given to poor people are always so eager to have those poor people get out and vote." - P.J. O'Rourke
which renders the rest of it problematic at best.
Hillary without coercion is like Stalin without the mustache.
She's dying to teach us all the lesson she thinks we deserve and to dance to whatever tune she plays.
It would have been honest for her to say "at some point" but what she did say was revealing enough.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
I caught a brief snippet of Mrs. Clinton's remarks yesterday, and she said something along the lines of, "Just as Americans must get a driver's liscence to drive, so they would now need to get health insurance." I didn't hear her conclude the analogy, which I imagine would go something like this: "Just as Americans must get a drivers liscence to drive, so they would now need to get health insurance...to breath?"
Avast, matey. Just because I'd like ta see dat scurvy wench walk her plank all the way to Davy Jones locker, I gotta tell ya that your stern cannons backfirin.
"Um, what? When your child shows proof of vaccination to school authorities, he/she does so in order to show that he/she will not make the other kids sick by transmitting a disease he/she was not vaccinated for. Unless a lack of insurance is somehow contagious, the same issues do not apply here. "
They will say, and many of us have noticed this for ourselves, that many a scoundrel don't pay a farthing for insurance nor medical care but soak it up anyway, due to royal law. Who pays? We are rowing their boat. The hillarites can claim to be liming the leeches.
John E.
...but it sounds like a proper curse for a seafaring man.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
license applying it to leeches. Didn't they lime (dust with lime) sailors to get rid of parasite infestations. John E.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
Isn't she just cribbing from what Mitt did in MA? Rush brought up a great point on this - if you're going to require that people have health insurance, does that mean we can then change the law to refuse emergency room services to those without insurance? That would be the biggest motivator for someone to go out and make sure they're covered. As a compassionate nation, that will NEVER come to pass, so this suggestion is doomed to failure.
If Obama (or other candidates) ever had an opportunity to gain ground this is it. Shrillary is bringing up one of her past failures like Jason rising up again to swing the axe.
Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you. Washington Elected Elite
Perhaps I'll grab me shipmates and try to reverse the process for those scaliwags in Canada.
I'm bettin once we walk a few of those government types off the plank, the rest ill' fold like me hat in a gale.
"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"
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How are you supposed to get health insurance if you can't get a job to pay for it? This seems to be a huge hurdle for those who have been laid off work for a long time or college kids entering the workforce for the first time. When I left college, I was in no position to go out and purchase health insurance before getting a job.