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 Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:00 am Post subject: Unfree To Choose |
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 Unfree To Choose
By Jeff EmanuelSenator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has made "health care for all Americans" a major plank in her policy platform since the beginning of her run for President last year -- though, as those who are familiar with the junior Senator from New York and former First Lady's history will recall, radical changes to America's health-care system have been a cause dear to Mrs. Clinton's heart for the better part of the last two decades at least.
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By Jeff EmanuelSenator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has made "health care for all Americans" a major plank in her policy platform since the beginning of her run for President last year -- though, as those who are familiar with the junior Senator from New York and former First Lady's history will recall, radical changes to America's health-care system have been a cause dear to Mrs. Clinton's heart for the better part of the last two decades at least.The program Mrs. Clinton is currently touting as her solution to the problems in America's health-care system -- particularly its high number of uninsured citizens -- is officially called the "American Health Choices Plan," though it is less-than-affectionately referred to by some as "HillaryCare II" in reference to her failed attempt to push a government health-care system on the nation during the first years of her husband's presidency.Under this program, the government alone, with no input from the free market, is responsible for the regulation and management of health care. Oxymoronically, the plan whose formal title includes the term "choice" is built around what is known as an "individual mandate" -- a government requirement that all Americans, regardless of income or choice, possess at least a (government-established) minimal level of health insurance.The inclusion of this individual mandate means, of course, that should this plan go into effect, choice at its most basic level -- the choice whether or not to have a certain level of coverage (or to have coverage at all) -- would be eradicated. Further, though there would still be Americans who cannot afford health coverage, the mandate would apply to them as well, causing them to be in violation of federal law simply because they cannot afford to comply.This situation would be exacerbated by the fact that, with every single individual in our nation of 300 million being required to purchase coverage, demand will become an inelastic element in the economic equation that determines the pricing of health insurance. In other words, prices would continue to rise in response to a new law requiring every person in the nation to purchase insurance regardless of that service's price.Mrs. Clinton's opponent in the Democratic presidential primary asked about this at a debate, saying, "You can mandate [that every American must have health insurance] but there will still be people who can't afford it. And if they can't afford it, what are you going to fine them? Are you going to garnish their wages?"
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