Giving em Hill
In 1994, “HillaryCare” cost the Democrats the midterm elections, and branded them the party of high taxes and big government.
Thirteen years later, in a different political climate, Hillary is making the same push as a presidential candidate as she did as first lady: Health care for all Americans.
According to Yahoo News, she called for a requirement for businesses to obtain insurance for employees, and said the wealthy should pay higher taxes to help defray the cost for those less able to pay for it. She put the government's cost at $110 billion a year.
The New York senator said her plan would require every American to purchase insurance, either through their jobs or through a program modeled on Medicare or the federal employee health plan. Businesses would be forced to follow the federal legislation because of the commerce clause in the US Constitution.
Businesses would be required to offer insurance or contribute to a pool that would expand coverage. Individuals and small businesses would be offered tax credits to make insurance more affordable.
Clinton framed her quest as a moral imperative in which individuals, businesses, the insurance industry and the federal government each had a role to play.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit continues…
posted by CitizenPatriot at 7:21:00 PM
9 Comments:
Hill=Big Government. Democratic Party=Big Govt.
Americans will realize this...The Women is UnElectable!!! Republicans are praying for her name on the ticket
7:33 PM
Billy,
47m Americans are without health care. Time for politicians to ACTUALLY DO SOMEHTHING GOOD FOR MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS
8:41 PM
Edwards had his plan months before Clinton
6:36 AM
FEDERALISM IN ACTION..RIGHT WHEN WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT IT IN CLASS!
9:33 AM
I personally think that it's a great idea - it sounds to me like the wealthy will feel the burden far more than the poor - which makes more sense to me.
Billy,
If you can remember to the good ol' days of the Confederacy, it did have a small central government, but it didn't work out too well. Some Americans prefer structure, efficiency, and democracy. Others are pampered little snots that don't deserve to talk.
8:02 PM
Just because the wealthy were successful and have made good lives for themselves means they should pick up the tab for those poor people in our country who have not been as fortunate or who have not worked as hard as other Americans?! Is that the American way?!?!?
8:15 PM
Again, they choose to tax the rich and give to the poor. Where has competition gone...by the time Hillary reaches the end of her first term (if she happens to be Mrs. President), what will be the point of education if government is going to give everything to you considering you won't have to work for it. It's like the Social Studies dept. wanting iPhones (jk Elbaum jk...go history!). But honestly, what is the statement she wants to make...I'll quote myself when I say..."If they want free healthcare, go to our neighbors to the north and go get a CatScan".
10:38 PM
I believe that people should work for there money. And they should not punish the rich for making a comfortable way of life for themselves. Maybe if the government actually paid the schools the right amount of 40% to special education programs we would have less people that would become lower class and not be able to afford health care. The government has never paid 20% to schools. "The promise made in 1975 remains unfulfilled.
Ever since its initial enactment, the federal law has included a commitment to pay 40 percent of the average per student cost for every special education student. The current average per student cost is $7,552 and the average cost per special education student is an additional $9,369 per student, or $16,921. Yet, in 2004, the federal government is providing local school districts with just under 20 percent of its commitment rather than the 40 percent specified by the law, creating a $10.6 billion shortfall for states and local school districts.
This shortfall creates a burden on local communities and denies full opportunity to all students -- with and without disabilities."Maybe the government shouldn't be making laws they cant fulfill!!! If the government actually funded this we wouldn't have to worry about people not being able to afford Health Care because they would have the chance to make something of themselves.
10:08 AM
In response to Huck. Yes that is the American way. Read the inscription on the base of the Statue of Liberty. Everyone, especially the individual, is responsible for everyone else. We do not live in a vacuum. Now I am not trying to imply that we are responsible to the same degree as the individual, but to ignore the plight of the poor, is definitely not what the founding fathers had in mind when fighting to free us from the British.
8:49 PM
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