From the Fact Check Desk: Clinton's New Health Care Mailer

I THINK CLINTON IS SIMPLY ENSURING THAT THE PHARMACETICAL LOBBYISTS WHO SPONSORED HER CAMPAIGN RIP THEIR PROFITS SOONER THAN LATTER. WHOEVER SAID BULLYING PEOPLE INTO BUYING HEALTHCARE AT WHATEVER COST IS MORE UNIVERSAL THAN MAKING IT AFFORDABLE FOR ALL.

What doesn't Hillary understand about the word FREEDOM? I am not looking for the gov to do "for me," I would like the gov to offer me some tools so that I am better able to do for myself. I do not want to be made to do ANYTHING by the gov! Is that hard to understand? Should I write it slower? Obama has it right this time.

Gbo, you wrote: "...that is not universal health care...that is called 'no freedom of choice'..."

I have news for you! Womb-to-tomb universal health care fully run by the federal government will eliminate all choice. Under the guise of preventative health care, they will mandate a healthy lifesyle. They will tell you what you can eat, what you can drink, what products you can purchase. And if you don't comply, they will deny future medical treatment until you do comply. We are already seeing signs of this in the United Kingdom where some patients are being denied medical procedures because they smoke. And around the corner will be mandatory abortions (over population is unhealthy) and euthanasia (it costs too much to provide long term health care for the elderly and individuals with incurable diseases).

The thing that strikes me about the Clinton plan is that it mandates everyone to sign up regardless of their personal choice. Isn't that the same thing that got her Healthcare 1.0 plan eaten up and spit out by conservatives? If the plan has an absolute mandate, it will not pass. Senator Obama's plan preserves some freedom of choice and therefore has a better chance of passing.

I guess that's why your party is split
A House divided won't stand-(The Bible)
Tell that to the men and women who are in Iraq praying to come home. I am sure they will love to here that comment you just said.

Obama... All the whimpering you do over what Hillary is throwing at you is nothing compared to what McCain is going to throw at you. We need a real leader not someone who wants to talk about hurt feelings.

It is amazing that the weapons used are negative from Hilary and Defensive from Obama. It is sad that he is forced to respond to accusations that I truly feel are a ploy to involve him in a negative campaign that will tear down his positive attempts to campaign. Bill Clinton served two terms, Hillary is the Senator for New York and the best she can do while Bush is in office is attack a democrat. Bush is a wide open bulls- eye for anyone and Obama is the target. As a former athlete I like competition and have dealt with the cheating aspect etc. but please Bill and Hilary stop wining. If you are so experienced how did Obama catch and pass you. 35 years should have seen this coming. You are firing campaign managers left and right. Is your status in this campaign a result of anything you have done or is it completly just everyone else's fault. To win the whitehouse and loose all respect is a horrible trade off. Is the white house stance for the people or is it personally for the Clinton's like it was the Bush's. I truly cannot tell!!!!

Obama's plan leaves no one uninsured,
that wants insurance.

The 15 million figure ASSumes,
15 million Americans don't want any health insurance. Hillary Clinton is
plan is to punish those that pay the premiums. In Massachuests the premiums are so high that some people are willing to pay the penalty than pay the insurance.

Who wants to be forced into Hillary care and have there wages garnished?

How much is going to cost the average family?

How many Republicans in Congress does she predict will go along with the plan? Can't get it through without them.

Are illegal immigrants covered.
Wait a minute, "Hillary said there
is no such thing as an illegal immigrant women."

HILLARY 08...She is the best for America!

Observing, you wrote: "Hillary's health care plan is nothing more than a huge windfall for the insurance companies."

Actually it is just a short term windfall. In their last debate, Sen. Clinton said that those individuals who like their current health insurance plan can stay with that plan..."FOR NOW." Clearly, her intent is for the federal government to eventually completely control and administer our health care system and eliminate private health insurance.

How do you mandate healthcare coverage on the homeless ?

Hillary covers everyone ? lol

Next she will be telling everyone she can walk on water !

what i want to know is WHY DOESN'T ANYONE ADDRESS HILLARY'S CLAIM THAT HER PLAN "PROVIDES" INSURANCE TO EVERYONE????

This drives me CRAZY!!!
Talk about misleading!

Hillary doesn't intend to "provide" insurance.

The BIGGEST difference in health care PLANS is that Clinton STARTED working to RESOLVE the this monster problem many, many, years ago and the other person just started recently.

I am just apalled that Clinton has suggested that to force people to get health care she would garnish our wages!

This is classic liberal "I know what is best for you, so shut up and sit down" thinking.

Americans should join Europe in creating single-payer health care, and end private health insurance.

Right on Kaytee. I make a decent salary, but I have bills and an ex-wife to support which causes me, after that, food, bills, etc. To barely scrape by enough for the kids which I have full custody of.

Mandating health-insurance may limit the amount of new school-clothes, the extra math tutoring, and the small allowance my children do get.

I couldn't afford buying it from my company without crimping close on the bottom line of my bank account. Since I make a 'higher-than-poverty-level-by-far' amount, I'm positive that any mandated health plan would hit me harder than my '20k-a-year' neighbor.

Let's just make it so that I am unable to buy the few small extras I can for my children, and totally move over to Ramen Noodles for dinner. Pleh.

So let me get this straight, Obama will allow adults to choose for themselves, mandate coverage for children and open a non-profit insurance plan for those that wish to enroll and Clinton will mandate that everyone buy insurance from for profit companies without any mandate on the service they provide. Um, freedom of choice or no freedom of choice, I'm going to go with freedom over government mandate. Thank you very much Sen. Obama.

We can pay for health care for all by using a combination of a dedicated national sales tax and national hospital lottery.

Hillary's health care plan is nothing more than a huge windfall for the insurance companies. 47 million uninsured Americans, and only about 16 million who currently would qualify for Medicaid or SCHIP, leaves 31 million Americans who, under current rules, would probably be determined by Hillary to be able to afford insurance. If each one only paid $1,000 per year per person (highly unlikely) for insurance, that's an extra $31 billion to the insurance industry. That's my conservative estimate.

I do not want the government mandating that I purchase anything. They did the same thing with liability insurance, and rates have gone UP since that law passed. Insurance companies will have no reason to lower rates, and with the government forcing them to take all comers, they will most likely jack up rates to offset the effect of having to pay for high cost patients.