Obama and Clinton’s plans are essentially the same, save for individual mandates for adults. I tend to agree with Obama, who focuses on costs above mandates.
As Massachusetts is finding out, an individual mandate still leaves people uninsured. Also, if the penalties aren’t stiff enough, you see the ridiculous scenario of people paying not to have insurance.
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Not buying insurance is a right!
If uncompensated care is bankrupting emergency services, then tax subsidies of those services might be considered but mandating insurance is like “solving” homelessness by mandating the purchase of a home or solving hunger by mandating the purchase of a “food plan”.
Non-emergency care is a private problem that is not the publics problem to solve. John McCain understands this.
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