Say Anything Blog

In an AP story from last September, Hillary is said to have rejected any sort of punitive measures to force individuals into her health care system, but a careful reader of the quote sees that the Associated Press is in the tank for the Democrat candidate, and that all that was really said was that Mrs. Clinton had yet to reveal all components of her health care
proposal.

WASHINGTON – Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that a mandate requiring every American to purchase health insurance was the only way to achieve universal health care but she rejected the notion of punitive measures to force individuals into the health care system.

“At this point, we don’t have anything punitive that we have proposed,” the presidential candidate said in an interview with The Associated Press. “We’re providing incentives and tax credits which we think will be very attractive to the vast majority of Americans.”

She said she could envision a day when “you have to show proof to your employer that you’re insured as a part of the job interview – like when your kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination,” but said such details would be worked out through negotiations with Congress.

If I am required to show proof of insurance as part of a job interview, then clearly that insurance is not being provided by my (prospective) employer.

Like a good Democrat, Mrs. Clinton is lying again, trying to dodge the truth about what she would do as president and how her proposals would effect the rest of us.  She is attempting to make her vision more palatable by using insurance companies as a front for her determined takeover of the healthcare industry.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”