Hillarycare 2.0
Posted September 23rd, 2007 by Da King
Hillary has announced her new universal health care plan, and I have to say, I like it better than the old plan already. For one thing, the new plan is only 16 pages long, while her 1993 version was about the size of the Old Testament. Plus, nearly half of the 16 pages are just pictures of people smiling over the wonderfulness of Hillary's happy health care plan, so the actual text is probably only 8-10 pages written in a large font. I'm sure Hillary has covered all the health care bases though, because, after all, her husband balanced the federal budget in the year 2000. You can link to Hillary's health care plan here
As a public service, I offer my Politico-To-English translations of some key points of Hillary's plan. Since Hillary's plan is just a collection of broad generalities, so are my translations. That's all there is so far, though you'd never know it by all the media fanfare.
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Hillary : A Guarantee of Quality Coverage
Da King: The government will FORCE you to carry health insurance. No exceptions, comrade. You WILL submit.
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Hillary: Reducing Costs: By removing hidden taxes, stressing prevention and a focus on efficiency and modernization, the plan will improve quality and lower costs.
Da King: Hillary, please. No efficiency measures are going to come anywhere near to offsetting the costs here. Overall costs will increase greatly, since the taxpayer will pick up the costs for all those who can't afford coverage, and insurance and drug companies will be mandated to cover all pre-existing conditions without exception, thus driving up their costs dramatically. And incidentally, for you smokers, cigarettes will soon cost about $295.00 per pack. Okay, I'm exaggerating about the cigarettes. They might only be $15-20 per pack. In any case, very expensive for plants that grow in the ground, but that's what they get for being 'sinful' plants, I guess.
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Hillary: End to Unfair Health Insurance Discrimination
Da King: American taxpayers will have to pay the health insurance costs for tens of millions of the geometrically increasing numbers of illegal aliens
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Hillary: Government will ensure that health insurance is always affordable and never a crushing burden on any family and will implement reforms to improve quality and lower cost.
Da King: Be very afraid. The socialists are coming ! Your taxes are heading through the roof. The problems with the health care system have only just begun.
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Hillary: A Net Tax Cut for American Taxpayers
Da King: I have a bridge to sell you.
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September 24th, 2007 at 9:56 am
When she says I should get benefits for providing my dog with food and shelter, I'll switch over and vote for her.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:00 am
Sorry to be the one to tell you, Larry, but PETA informs me that Hillary won't get around to a Doggie Daycare tax credit until her second term. First, she has to give pets the right to vote to expand the Democratic constituency.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:02 am
I am having some trouble finding what Hillary intends to do when employers start withdrawing their insurance plans for employees because, afterall, the GOVERNMENT will pick up those who can't afford the mandate insurance. She says that everyone must be insured but just plain doesn't address this to be expected weakness.
This plan proves a point for the millions of younger people who don't have insurance because they want to live a lifestyle that having health insurance payments would cramp considerably. They will all of a sudden be able to be insured and still live the life style. Of course, their taxes will have to rise so maybe they will only be allowed to live 2/3 of the lifestyle they enjoy.
September 25th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Update: Hillary just came out today and said that her universal plan will NOT cover illegal aliens. She had been non-committal about that before (which I took to mean illegals WOULD be covered), so I guess around 12 million still won't have insurance under Hillary's 'universal' plan.
As for the employers, Hillarys says she will force large employers to provide insurance or partial insurance for employees, and small employers will get tax credits for doing so. No word yet on what the definition of a large vs small employer is, or what partial insurance means, but I agree with you Roy, it will be an incentive for business to get around having to pay health insurance when citizens are mandated to have it anyway, and with the government covering it in the end. Expect to see a rise in independent contractors and under the table workers if Hillarycare 2.0 is enacted.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
I am sure that very few employees have plans that are as good as what the Congress has and yesterday Hillary said that all covered by the government would have just what the Congresspersons have. I think that if I had an employer paying about $300 per month and I paid $150 per month like my sons do I would drop the "good" plan and go to the government plan in a second. Why don't the people in her campaign see this?
She needs to talk to old SanFranNan about this plan. Nan says that Bush won't allow the Congress to cover all children and all they want to do (Dems) is cover up to 21.
Will she actually snow enough voters with this plan to get elected? We have some poor thinkers in the counry and she may well fool them into the beginning of socialized medicine.