Monday, February 04, 2008

Hillary Raises Specter Of Wage Confiscation To Pay For Socialist Healthcare


Well, she did say she would take things away from Americans in the interest of her hidden Communist agenda...
Will Hillary Clinton as president tap into workers' wages to achieve her goal of health insurance for all Americans?

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Speaking on ABC's "This Week" program, the Democratic senator from New York said she might be willing to have wages garnisheed if people refuse to buy health insurance.
That's the state confiscating the Peoples' money. It's another way besides taxation to "take things away".
"I think universal health care is a core Democratic value and a moral principle, and I'm absolutely gonna do everything I can to achieve that," Clinton said. "I think there are a number of mechanisms" possible, including "going after people's wages, automatic enrollment."
OMG... this is scary! "I'm absolutely gonna do everything I can to achieve that", she said.
She wants to force the state onto the people. And that she'd call it "moral" is also scary. Who wants a Clinton to tell us what's "moral"? Adultery in the Oval Office, for one thing, isn't "moral"...
'You've got to be part of this.'
Believe me, Americans, you don't want this. Up here in Canada, it's worse than you have it right now. Everyone would be worse off with the state unilaterally rationing health care, deciding who is deserving of diagnosis, treatment, etc, and when and how. You'll also probably find it increasingly difficult to get a family doctor (five million Canadians are unable to get a family doctor today, according to the Canadian Medical Association), and that obviously places an extra burden on emergency rooms, which are really for emergencies!
The state will have the power of decision over life and death. They would be able to legally dither and delay diagnosis and treatment... and this can lead to death, no kidding. I know this from first-hand observation. The truth of it is far, far worse than we've been hearing, actually. It really does feel as if we're living under an uncaring totalitarian regime when we try to get medical attention. The suffering, the loss of quality of life...
Only Cuba and North Korea have purely socialized medical systems, besides Canada. Think about that. Even China doesn't have a completely socialized system like we do.
A better system is a parallel private/public, complementary/synergistic/competitive system in which the state doesn't impose on the private component, thus preserving choice, access and quality for all and ensuring that mostly those who need the public system will be its users, as opposed to all people, which would make it so expensive as to force rationing, as happens up in Canada. After all, communism as a service delivery system is a failure whereas the private sector is able to adapt to balance supply and demand far more efficiently and effectively.
Hillary's idea is too simplistic and ill-advised, like all communistic ideas.