Hillarycare v. -0.1

She's at it again, folks.

MANDATORY, like it or not, national health insurance.

Stephen Parente, an economist who heads the Medical Industry Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota, said Clinton's requirement that everyone be covered is similar to the way states require auto insurance. And, as happens with auto insurance, not everyone will comply. "Having someone (without medical insurance) costs the system more, the same way it does when you have a lot of people running around in uninsured cars," Parente said.

It figures that a pencil-necked wonk from the U. of M. would come up with that lame-brained analogy. Let's take it in list form, shall we?

1. The requirement to have auto insurance is mandated by states, not by a bloated federal bureaucracy.
2. The crux behind the State laws are to protect other drivers, not the insured. In other words, people are required to carry auto insurance to insure losses that their own actions incur on other drivers, not themselves. Policies to cover their own losses in car accidents are optional.
   
3. People have the absolute, unpenalized choice of the type of auto insurance and from which company. There is no government tax imposed on selecting a more expensive plan with superior coverage. Under Shrillary's "womb-to-tomb" plan, any employer-provided private insurance plan that covers above and beyond the national plan would be subject to income taxes (currently on those making $250k or more, but that'll change).

On top of all this,

Insurance companies would face greater regulations on premium costs.

Surprise! (NOT). Anytime government steps in and regulates the cost of anything in the market, look for A: quality of service to deteriorate; and/or B: The actual cost of the services, along with everything else with it, to go up. (Remember the wage and price freeze of the 1970s?)

About the plan,

Several aspects of her plan, or at least the way she talks about it, appear designed to shield her from some of the attacks leveled at the previous plan. She said her proposal isn't government-run and doesn't create new bureaucracies.

And just who is going to keep track of whether one has participated or not in your scheme, Hillary, if not a government-run bureaucracy?

She said the costs would be covered by rolling back portions of President Bush's tax cuts and by making the current system more efficient.

Yeah. That's right. Make things "more efficient" by slowing down the economy and productivity and the ensuing tax revenue that the economy would otherwise create.

Brilliant move, Einstein.

"These are new times and this is a new plan. When it comes to health-care reform, I believe I have the experience needed to get it done in my first term as president," she said.

Yeah. You have the experience needed to fuck with my and my family's healthcare.

And I have the experience needed to be a brain surgeon.

What a retard.