I suppose an insurance system like this might be OK, but only as a fallback to keep emergency costs from spiraling above health maintenance costs, and as long as the private system remains in place to push technology forward. If people don't have enough money to afford a reasonable premium for this plan then perhaps if they don't have dependents who will suffer without them then they can do community service or something. It would encourage them to get a job if they aren't already motivated to do so.
Hillary Clinton, offering a new prescription for providing all Americans with health-care insurance, is seeking to avoid a repeat of her first, failed bid to revamp the system. While Democratic presidential rivals John Edwards and Barack Obama released health-care plans several months ago, the issue is more complex for the senator from New York.
Clinton's previous disasterously failed effort gives her a voice of authority on health-care coverage now, with 65 percent of Americans in a July Gallup poll expressing ``a great deal'' or ``a fair amount'' of confidence in her on the issue. That's more than any other White House contender. At the same time, it evokes memories of the bureaucracy-laden, 1,342-page proposal that critics still call ``Hillarycare.''
| I read parts of that. It was socialized medicine, pure and simple. |
``It's very tricky for her,'' said Robert Blendon, professor of health policy and political analysis at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ``But she's not going to get elected president unless she can get through to people on health care,'' said Bob Laszewski, a Washington health policy analyst. |