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Thread #108444   Message #2261874
Posted By: Ron Davies
13-Feb-08 - 08:49 PM
Thread Name: BS: Hillary Tapped Out???
Subject: RE: BS: Hillary Tapped Out???
Available: can't be denied because of pre-existing conditions or any other reason

Affordable: Negotiations with insurance firms to bring the price down, coupled with subsidies for anybody who can't afford it.

But as I understand, no forcing people who don't want it, for whatever reason, to buy it. No "mandate"--which is Hillary's approach--including garnisheeing of wages-- and is DOA in Congress for that reason. ( There's been rather strong feeling against taxation without representation in the US since about, what was it, 1773?)

More details on Obama's website, if you'd like.

Non-Americans--and Americans also, for that matter, should realize that Hillary's "universal health care", like Obama's plan, is in fact not a single-payer situation as in the UK or Canada. Insurance firms are very much in the picture in her scheme also.

There is not a huge amount of difference, aside from the politically disastrous "mandate".