Candidate Obama on Mandated Insurance
Throughout the primary campaign last year, Obama consistently said one of the genuine, important policy differences between him and Hillary Clinton was that he did not support an individual mandate to buy health insurance. I know people who voted for him in the primary on this one issue. One example of many:
Senator Clinton. . . believes that we have to force people who don't have health insurance to buy it. Otherwise, there will be a lot of people who don't get it.
I don't see those folks. And I think that it is important for us to recognize that if, in fact, you are going to mandate the purchase of insurance and it's not affordable, then there's going to have to be some enforcement mechanism that the government uses. And they may charge people who already don't have health care fines, or have to take it out of their paychecks. And that, I don't think, is helping those without health insurance. That is a genuine difference.
And yet now, of course, as Jesse notes, his administration is pushing to criminalize the act of not buying insurance, punishable with years in prison. This is the essense of social welfare and indeed all government power: The threat that those who don't comply will be locked in a cage, and if they resist sufficiently, they will ultimately be shot. Ah, compassion. This is a great example of how "economic liberties" and "personal liberties" are one in the same, and of one more important campaign promise broken by Obama.
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Posted 11/07/09 8:42 PM
SteveBierfeldt
Arlington, VA | I'd like to go on record that I do not have health insurance.
Furthermore I have no plans to purchase it. I refuse to be a slave and be forced into purchasing it. The passing of this bill cements those feelings. |
Posted 11/07/09 9:32 PM
sweetliberty
San Rafael, CA | Obama is a hipocrit, on this issue and many others. |
Posted 11/07/09 10:14 PM
Mike in Virginia
Fredericksburg, VA | you go, Steve. I have insurance because my employer provides it. But in less than 7 years, I will be required by law to sign up for Medicare. I will most emphatically not do so. Nor will I sign up for social security. Both programs are theft, pure and simple. The fact that the government has been stealing from me for decades does not justify me in stealing from someone else. If they prosecute me, my defense will be four simple words that our ruling class seems to have forgotten: Thou shalt not steal. If a government brainwashed jury disagrees with those words, I guess my future lies in a jail cell. So be it. |
Posted 11/07/09 10:15 PM
Mike in Virginia
Fredericksburg, VA | P.S. Please disregard the first sentence. It was meant for another post. |
Posted 11/07/09 11:24 PM
Ricky201
North Bend, WA | The bill passed the House... |
Posted 11/07/09 11:33 PM
triliberty516
levittown, NY | when they come to take those who resist. Show the Federal Agents exactly where their jurisdiction is NOT IN THE STATES |
Posted 11/08/09 12:52 AM
dito27
Alamosa, CO | What is the point of calling senators? My congressman said he wouldn't vote on a bill that had mandates. But he did. It's obvious that they don't care what the people want or about the constitution. It seems like peaceful means are not working. 2010 seems like a far way off to make real changes(if that happens). |
Posted 11/08/09 11:04 AM
sweetliberty
San Rafael, CA | dito27, that's how I'm feeling right now. :( |
Posted 11/08/09 2:08 PM
VictimOfFeds
San Clemente, CA | This country is going straight into the crapper. |
Posted 11/08/09 2:11 PM
CharlotteJuett
Genoa, NE | I begin to feel that we are in the same position as our Founding Fathers, facing an enemy with seemingly unsurmountable manpower and wealth. If 56 men at that time could foment a revolution, whey can't we with much greater numbers?
IT is time to let the traitors in Washington know that we are "Mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore."
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Posted 11/08/09 10:03 PM
mirand sharma
Celebration, FL | More Obama hypocrisy.
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Posted 11/09/09 01:27 AM
AuthenticAuthor
Canutillo, TX | Steve,
I don't have health insurance either, and I don't want it. My health isn't perfect, sure, but I don't want it because I can't afford it and I don't have a pressing need for it.
And with this bill passing the house, I'm scared to death. I don't want to have to face higher prices or perhaps even a layoff from my employer, but they did it anyway.
Time to get really really mad... |
Posted 11/09/09 10:57 AM
jwfox1965
Las Vegas, NV | A move to Switzerland is looking better and better these days. |
Posted 11/09/09 10:58 AM
Rossco
Des Moines, IA | I will keep the insurance I have now it is one thousand dollars a year.If they expect me to pay 15,000 a year I quess I will go to jail that's ridiculous. |
Posted 11/09/09 11:01 AM
jwfox1965
Las Vegas, NV | "If they expect me to pay 15,000 a year I quess I will go to jail that's ridiculous. "
Well I guess if they send you to jail at least you'll get tax payer funded health care, and more than likely superior care to what everybody else standing in the rationing lines on the outside will be getting, another brilliant collectivist plan I suppose.
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Posted 11/09/09 11:02 AM
Rossco
Des Moines, IA | jwfox I was thinking Australia |
Posted 11/09/09 11:03 AM
Rossco
Des Moines, IA | exactly |
Posted 11/09/09 11:06 AM
Rossco
Des Moines, IA | Ron Paul is speaking in Ames friday, I plan on attending. |
Posted 11/09/09 11:21 AM
jwfox1965
Las Vegas, NV | "jwfox I was thinking Australia"
That works too but Switzerland has a more stable currency, a free market economy and higher standard of living, not to mention they haven't gone to war with anyone in over 500 years. :D
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