Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Elizabeth Edwards Endorses Clinton's Misguided Health Care Plan
This just in from the AP: Elizabeth Edwards Plugs Clinton's Health Plan.
The Edwards' should be smarter than this. Hillary Clinton's health care plan is a disaster for America, should she ever become President. Mandating that everyone have health insurance brings significant and terrifying problems. What happens if you lose your job? How then do you pay for this mandated health insurance? What if it's too expensive? Clinton promises to help subsidize those who need assistance, which in turn sounds like another massive Federal bureaucracy, impossible to navigate for the average American (much like our student loan system, Medicare, Medicaid, etc already are).
Universal Health Care to the rest of the civilized world means a single payer health care system. Frankly, it is disingenuous for either Clinton or Obama to call their proposals Universal Health Care, when in fact they are not. Mandating health insurance is not the answer, and will only exacerbate existing problems with America's broken health care system.
Shame on you, Elizabeth Edwards. You should know better than to endorse a concept so critically flawed as Hillary Clinton's health care plan.
The Edwards' should be smarter than this. Hillary Clinton's health care plan is a disaster for America, should she ever become President. Mandating that everyone have health insurance brings significant and terrifying problems. What happens if you lose your job? How then do you pay for this mandated health insurance? What if it's too expensive? Clinton promises to help subsidize those who need assistance, which in turn sounds like another massive Federal bureaucracy, impossible to navigate for the average American (much like our student loan system, Medicare, Medicaid, etc already are).
Universal Health Care to the rest of the civilized world means a single payer health care system. Frankly, it is disingenuous for either Clinton or Obama to call their proposals Universal Health Care, when in fact they are not. Mandating health insurance is not the answer, and will only exacerbate existing problems with America's broken health care system.
Shame on you, Elizabeth Edwards. You should know better than to endorse a concept so critically flawed as Hillary Clinton's health care plan.
