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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Hillary Clinton releases "mandatory" Universal Health Care plan. She needs to go back to the drawing board.

Hillary Clinton has unveiled her prescription for Universal Health Care in order to insure "every man, woman and child". Read Hillary's plan.

My view? While providing health care for all -- especially to those who cannot afford it -- is ADMIRABLE, considering the fact that in the richest country in the world, health care is a luxury that many CANNOT afford, mandating health care insurance as Hillary Clinton does is FOOLHARDY.

Her attempt at analogizing mandatory health insurance to mandatory car insurance is dubious at best and disingenuous at worst.

Dubious because ONLY people who drive cars are required to get car insurance -- people who do NOT require the use of health care facilities should NOT be mandated to get health insurance; and, disingenuous because car insurance is required in case you injure an innocent person when you cause an accident -- with health care insurance, no one should care if you have it, since you are likely to injure ONLY yourself, with the obvious exception for infectious diseases.

Since none of that mandatory car insurance analogy fits Clinton's mandatory health insurance plans, she is best advised to go back to the drawing board on the issue.

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