akuma587 said:
I think your confusing his plan with Hillary's. From everything I have seen Obama doesn't want to punish those who choose not to buy health insurance, because he thinks it is a valid choice.
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No. His plan was the same as Clintons. The only difference is he's forcing less people to get healthcare. His plan does the same thing Clinton's does.
Except his is only for families. Which granted I do think every child should have Healthcare but his plan to do it is ass backwords.
He described it quite often in the primaries. Don't your remember him and Clinton going back and forth... argueing about it... Barak saying he supports it only for some people, and Clinton saying that if you only make a small portion of the population get healthcare it won't do anything to lower prices and instead just cost people money.
Then Clinton saying that him accusing her of forcing people to pay fines was unfair because Obama was doing the same thing.... but Obama saying it was different because it only applied to children.
Directly from his campaign website.
Mandatory Coverage of Children: Obama will require that all children have health care coverage. Obama will expand the number of options for young adults to get coverage, including allowing young people up to age 25 to continue coverage through their parents' plans.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/
In otherwords... there will be people forced to get health insurance who can't afford it... Universal Healthcare if mandatory needs to be run by the government. Running it like car insurance just doesn't work.
Now if he was for the government covering the healthcare costs of all kids. Yeah sure. Like I said i'd perfer state government.
But doing it this way just seems like a payout to the insurance lobbyists at the expense of the lower middle class and "richer" poor.
