Ok, as I watched the debate, I hoped Hillary would answer Obama's question on her Universal Health Care! I didn't hear it!
OK what was the question Obama had? Obama said last night that Hillary still hadn't said now she would in force mandated health care, if someone didn't have health care? What kind of penalty would there be? Fines? take it directly out of their paycheck? take their income tax refund away?
Hillary's plan does waver some from having to have health care. You can request a waver!
Many articles today say in the title, that Obama and Hillary played nice at the debate! I would agree, that Obama played nice over all! He should of stuck to his guns so to speak in asking Hillary about the penalties for not having Health Care! I do think that Hillary played a little more hard ball then Obama! But that is to make up for her husbands quieting down!
To be equal in this debate on health care, Obama hasn't said how he would penalize parents that don't cover their children that coverage is mandated for in Obama's plan! Or at least I haven't seen anything on it or heard anything!
Insurance Companies have come out in favor of the Clinton or Edwards Health Care, with mandates for everyone to be covered!
And some have compared this to mandated insurance for car drivers! The problem is that even though there is mandates for insurance, and mandates is the only way insurance companies say the cost would come down! Why hasn't Auto Insurance gotten cheaper? Well it hasn't worked with car insurance! People still can't afford car insurance, why would anyone think mandating insurance would work in the long term or even in the short term!
People without insurance loss their license to drive but they still buy cars and drive them, but then they don't have a drivers license or insurance!
I find the question about allowing undocumented aliens getting drivers licenses laughable. It was asked it they support the states doing this, well, it is the state not the national government and unless Congress passes a law outlawing it, the states have the right to give them licenses! Do I agree with the states doing it, no, do I understand their motives for doing it? Yes!
But then I also believe that Insurance companies are just organized crime gone legal under the states and federal mandates! I can only remember the gangsters pro-traded in movies I watched growing up. and how some gangs are today! How they went around and told the business they wanted so much money from them a week for protection! If the business didn't pay, their windows were broken, and maybe their business was ransacked!
Well today they don't have to brake windows, the government mandates you pay them insurance money so if something happens you are covered! Car accident/house fire/burglary/illness/loan insurance! Where does it stop?
But have they paid the coverage out they carried for people? For the most part no! Just ask people that lost homes during Katrina, or houses in California do to fire, who thought they were covered for replacement cost! Ask the family that lost their daughter just hours before the insurance company agreed to cover an operation she needed to save her life, but refused to up till just before she died! To little to late! So called for the insurance company to be held responsibly for her death and even that the executives should be charged with murder! Will it happen? NO! Who do you charge? The insurance adjuster that disqualified her surgery or the person over them that had the say on the matter or the ones over them! The old adage I was ony following orders!
The buck has to stop somewhere and this is where Clinton hasn't answered the question on, how will you enforce the mandated health coverage?
How do you fix a broken system? Sometimes you just have to do your best or start over from scratch!
And sometimes I wonder if we shouldn't just scrap the old system of medical insurance for a totally new one!
People will just do what they do in accidents, give phony names and information! Get ride of the car and get another one that isn't licensed or licensed under someone else's name!
There are to many questions on how well their plans will work! Something we won't know until they put it to work!
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