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[ocelot]

Hillary Clinton apparently thinks that requiring people to buy health insurance in order to get a job is a reasonable answer to the issue of Universal Healthcare.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

"Buy your own insurance, if you want a job." This, by her, is a health care plan? I suppose it'll then be used to justify cutting back unemployment benefits for people who can't afford insurance, because after all, if they'd just buy insurance, they could get a job.

The Carpetbagger from Little Rock is showing her true colors. Let's hope it's in time.

[micro-cuts.livejournal.com]

i think she is insane. maybe she seems to forget how expensive decent health insurance is when you aren't able to buy into a group policy.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

Well, I think she was thinking in terms of having "affordable" healthcare available to everyone, without realizing that there are sometimes things in the way of making affordable healthcare an easily accessible option.

[purdypiedad.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. Gosh. This is gonna get me to write a whole blog. Uh... how do we not see that socialized insurance is NOT universal health care?!?! How do we not see that subsidizing the cost of insurance or offering tax breaks for it only magnifies the current problems we have with big pharma and the insurance companies driving the cost of health care through the roof???

This woman is evil.

[cherokeepurple.livejournal.com]

Seconded!The insurance companies are the real problem and the reason health care here is such a mess.

[tashuunka.livejournal.com]

"We're providing incentives and tax credits which we think will be very attractive to the vast majority of Americans."

When you cut out the people in poverty or who are too poor to buy insurance and the very wealthy who really don't need, where's the majority? What the heck is she thinking? Granted, this is campaigning, so it isn't that she'll keep the promise. She is saying to appease certain voters....I'm just a little frightened to discover which voters that would be.

[jabberwokky.livejournal.com]

While I make no claims it will happen, it occurred to a group of us that an actual possible path to reform is through the drug companies. They have the money and lobbyists, and want to make it so that people get their products, especially their esoteric ones that just came out of expensive R&D (in order to recoup costs). That basically requires that people have some sort of real way to get them. Their best business interest is in getting people to be able to get their products.

Pure flight of fancy, but it jibes with the machinations and twists of human history history.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, tax credits are really going to go a long way to make health insurance affordable for people who make so little money they don't end up paying any taxes in the first place.

But then, people that poor can't afford campaign donations anyway, so who cares?

[lessaxf.livejournal.com]

Lovely. So the people who need to work just to get healthcare wouldn't be able to get a job because they can't afford to get it otherwise? And this makes sense...how?

What modicum of respect I had for her is rapidly disappearing.