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The Judge
The Judge Posts: 60
edited February 2008 in The Clubhouse
Top Story Clinton suggests tapping wages
By Hill Truth | The Hillary Project


Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing to garnish the wages of workers who refuse to buy health insurance to achieve coverage for all Americans.

The New York senator has criticized presidential rival Barack Obama for pushing a health plan that would not require universal coverage. Clinton has not always specified the enforcement measures she would embrace, but when pressed on ABC's "This Week," she said: "I think there are a number of mechanisms" that are possible, including "going after people's wages, automatic enrollment."

Clinton said such measures would apply only to workers who can afford health coverage but refuse to buy it, which puts undue pressure on hospitals and emergency rooms. With her proposals for subsidies, she said, "it will be affordable for everyone."
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  • rskarvan
    rskarvan Posts: 2,374
    edited February 2008
    Go Hillary!!! Its about time those dead-beats start paying for health insurance. Otherwise, they are just a burden to society because everyone knows emergency rooms have to provide health care for people who won't pay.
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  • nms
    nms Posts: 671
    edited February 2008
    Don't touch it guys, let it die... I know it's hard, but I'm posting this instead of feeding the damn monster this time...
    My system

    "The world is an ever evolving clusterf*ck." --treitz3
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,600
    edited February 2008
    If you already have it via a spouse, no doubt they will require you to pay it out anyhow.
    Why don't these clowns just say " we're taking your money to pay for
    everyone else's needs"
    NY state gives away so much money now to dead beats that do nothing
    but have babies now, why not just take everything and throw it in a big pot
    and pass it around.

    If they want to garnish wages to cover bills a guy generated, that's ok.
    But to label him a deadbeat up front is just stupid babbling.
    A guy that opts out is only a deadbeat if he doesn't pay after using the service.
    If he pays out of pocket, that's ok. I have know quite a few people that
    preferred to save for medical, as opposed to paying into the pot.
    Let's face it. the money coming in to the insurance companies is always
    the same as outgoing payments, plus admin and profit margin costs.
    They aren't doing you any favors. And neither is Hillary.:mad:
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited February 2008
    I've NEVER taken free health care. If I didn't have insurance, I paid the bill out of pocket.
    If she's talking about garnishing MY wages for illegals, when I have insurance, then we're gonna have some TROUBLE!
    I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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  • nms
    nms Posts: 671
    edited February 2008
    obieone wrote: »
    I've NEVER taken free health care. If I didn't have insurance, I paid the bill out of pocket.
    If she's talking about garnishing MY wages for illegals, when I have insurance, then we're gonna have some TROUBLE!

    The fun part is she tried this after Bill got elected the first time (so she wasn't even in office, yet her pet legislation was out there anyway) and it died fairly dramatically. Her health care idea alone prevents me from voting from her, nevermind her personality and such.

    Her health care plan is dangerously close to socialism, if not already over the line. Requiring EVERYONE to have health care, whether they want it / need it or not, is wrong in my book.
    My system

    "The world is an ever evolving clusterf*ck." --treitz3
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited February 2008
    I'm rabid about the current climate and would love to discuss it privately.....but it won't happen here folks, sorry.....rules.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited February 2008
    Yep, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC.....lots of forums out there to discuss the retards. Find them. Embrace them. Post in them.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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