| | I tend to agree with Robert Malcom about Hillary's power lust. We don't know much about Obama, but his persona seems less vicious. An indication of differences is on healthcare proposals, where Hillary is the most brutal and Osama's the least. There was an article in the WSJ about a week ago, which can also be seen here. Some excerpts follow. Unfortunately this doesn't address where they stand on forcing employers to pay for health insurance for their employees.
The Truth About Mandatory Health Insurance
By BETSY MCCAUGHEY
January 4, 2008; Page A11
This week, Hillary Clinton's supporters attacked Barack Obama for not proposing a federal mandate that every American buy health insurance. Mr. Obama's health plan, they said, is a "Band-Aid" for the nation's gaping wound: 47 million people without health insurance. Mrs. Clinton would require all Americans to get coverage. Presidential candidates John Edwards and Christopher Dodd say they would, too. Not Mr. Obama.
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But catastrophic coverage is not what the mandate advocates want. They would require that everyone have comprehensive health insurance, covering preventive and routine care. The rationale for this mandate is not personal responsibility but "shared responsibility," a polite way of saying shared costs.
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The first myth is that it's fair to make everyone pay the same price for health insurance. It is not: For young people who rarely use health services, this is a rip-off. If people in their 20s paid attention to politics and voted, politicians wouldn't dare try this.
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Both the Clinton proposal and the bipartisan congressional proposal prohibit insurers from giving such price breaks to the young. Their mandates would force the young to subsidize the heath tab for the middle-aged generation. This subsidy would come on top of the payroll tax younger people already pay to support today's Medicare recipients.
Edit: More details here.
(Edited by Merlin Jetton on 1/10, 7:24am)
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