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Michael Ramirez on Hillary Care 2.0
Now, Hillary wants to give $5,000 for EVERY baby.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 “baby bond” from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home.
Clinton, her party’s front-runner in the 2008 race, made the suggestion during a forum hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus.
“I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that will grow over time, so that when that young person turns 18 if they have finished high school they will be able to access it to go to college or maybe they will be able to make that downpayment on their first home,” she said.
The New York senator did not offer any estimate of the total cost of such a program or how she would pay for it. Approximately 4 million babies are born each year in the United States.
As if her Hillary Care 2.0 health care proposal wasn’t budget busting enough. This latest GAFFE continues to highlight how UNREALISTIC she is.
Didn’t Democrat Senator George McGovern running for President in 1972 make a similar proposal?
McGovern’s platform also included an across-the-board, 37% reduction in defense spending over three years [White p. 123]; and a “demogrant” program giving $1,000 to every citizen in America [White p. 125] that was later changed to creating a $6,500 guaranteed minimum income for Americans, and was later dropped from the platform.
And where did that get him? Right, a landslide loss.
Keep it up Hillary – PANDER SOME MORE.
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Arnold Care Vs. Hillary Care 2.0: Arnold Care Covers Illegal Aliens
Senator Clinton’s announcement that her “universal” health care plan will not cover illegal aliens puts her at odds with Governor Schwarzenegger of California on that issue, as well as some of her most prominent backers in the Hispanic community.
“Illegal immigrants would not be covered,” Mrs. Clinton, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, said yesterday on ABC’s “This Week” program. “I will continue to have a safety net, which I think is in the best traditions of our country and, also, for public health reasons, absolutely necessary. But we did not cover them in ’93–’94, and my plan does not cover them now.”
This is WHY California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan will fail at either the polls or via a later referendum. California voters do not KNOW that they will be asked to vote themselves a hefty tax increase to fund more health care for illegal aliens.
And, why Hillary Care 2.0 is ill-conceived and nothing but a PANDER.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Hillary Care 2.0
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Hillary Care 2.0
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at the Service Employees International Union Political Action Conference in Washington, Monday, Sept. 17, 2007.
We all know that Hillary Clinton is a SOCIALIST in health care so the lastest spin on her universal health plan is NOTHING NEW.
Two questions:
1. Who is going to pay the enormous cost of the government program?
2. What will be the new government BUREAUCRACY and NEW RULES?
No HONEST answer so far on number one – partly because there is NO HONEST answer unless you say MASSIVE TAX INCREASES on EVERYONE.
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that a mandate requiring every American to purchase health insurance was the only way to achieve universal health care but she rejected the notion of punitive measures to force individuals into the health care system.
“At this point, we don’t have anything punitive that we have proposed,” the presidential candidate said in an interview with The Associated Press. “We’re providing incentives and tax credits which we think will be very attractive to the vast majority of Americans.”
She said she could envision a day when “you have to show proof to your employer that you’re insured as a part of the job interview — like when your kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination,” but said such details would be worked out through negotiations with Congress.
And when Americans do NOT purchase health insurance then what?
Put them in jail? Or prohibit them from working? And the twelve million illegal aliens?
Hillary Care 2.0 like Hillary Care is ill conceived and SILLY.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: California Governor Considers 2008 Health Care Initiative
California health overhaul may go to voters
And Arnold thinks his “POST-PARTISAN” or the Democrat Socialized Universal health care plan with an accompanying tax increase has a chance of passage?
Flap will be laughing all the way to the ballot box.
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The Dangers of Universal Health Care – Socialized Medicine
FOX News: John Edwards’ Universal Health Care Plan Would Make Regular Checkups
Mandatory.Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care.
“It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care,” he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. “If you are going to be in the system, you can’t choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK.”
‘NHS should not treat those with unhealthy lifestyles’ say Tories
Failing to follow a healthy lifestyle could lead to free NHS treatment being denied under the Tory plans.
But heavy smokers, the obese and binge drinkers who were a drain on the NHS could be denied some routine treatments such as hip replacements until they cleaned up their act.
Those who abused the system – by calling an ambulance when a trip to the GP would be sufficient, or telephoning out of hours with needless queries – could also be penalised.
The report calls for a greater emphasis on the “citizen’s responsibility” to be healthy and says no one should expect taxpayers to fund their unhealthy lifestyles.But heavy smokers, the obese and binge drinkers who were a drain on the NHS could be denied some routine treatments such as hip replacements until they cleaned up their act.
Those who abused the system – by calling an ambulance when a trip to the GP would be sufficient, or telephoning out of hours with needless queries – could also be penalised.
The report calls for a greater emphasis on the “citizen’s responsibility” to be healthy and says no one should expect taxpayers to fund their unhealthy lifestyles.
Do these systems, one proposed and one in practice sound like BIG BROTHER?
Well, when the government pays, the government will mandate and regulate.
Another link from the Ayn Rand Institute: No Right to “Free” Health Care
There is NO free lunch in health care. Health is a PERSONAL responsibility NOT a government obligation.
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Rudy Giuliani Watch: National Review – Rudy Gets an “A” on Health Care
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=TTIxFuqSlxc[/youtube]
Rudy discussing health care in New Hampshire
Grading the Presidential Health Care Debate
Rudy gets an “A” and Romney gets a “B”. Obama, Clinton and Edwards get an “F.”
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Mitt Romney Watch: Romney Health Care 2.0 – Another FLIP for MITT
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney delivers his annual State of the Commonwealth, January 18, 2006. Massachusetts lawmakers overwhelmingly approved an ambitious health-care bill on Tuesday that would make it the first U.S. state to require nearly all residents to be insured or face penalties.
Is this another FLIP for MITT?
Apparently so……..
A far worse camel’s nose is the “universal” plan Mr. Romney championed in Massachusetts. As Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards put it, “If universal health care was good enough for Massachusetts, why isn’t it good enough for the rest of the country?”
It’s not an unfair question. Mr. Romney’s Bay State legacy is now praised by liberals as a prototype for national policy. That’s done a great deal to set back the kind of tax reform that he now espouses. The issue for GOP primary voters to consider is why he went in such a different direction in Boston. Granted, a mere Governor couldn’t restructure the federal tax code, and he was dealing with a far-left legislature. Yet his willingness to compromise in Massachusetts on core matters of principle, and then trumpet those statist policies as a “free-market” solution, raises questions about how far and easily he’d bend to a Democratic Congress.
Mr. Romney’s conversion to free-market health-care thinking is nonetheless welcome — assuming he believes it.
Flap has criticized the then Massachusetts Governor Romney for his “universal” and “socialized” plan. You know the one Hillary Clinton has praised and supported by Teddy Kennedy.
Sally Pipes over at National Review had this criticism.
Conservatives mostly understand the problems associated with the direct government provision of products and services — poor quality, shortages, high taxes, and shoddy service. What they must also understand is that forcing an individual to purchase health insurance is merely a rest stop on the journey to the same destination.
The best way to make health insurance available to the greatest number of people is to make sure that it can be provided at the lowest possible prices. Instead of abolishing the government regulations that have raised the cost of health insurance in Massachusetts, Governor Romney has proposed that the government should pay for the health insurance of the very people for whom the government made health insurance unaffordable.
But, wait, in Romney’s health care plan 2.0 he has eliminated the mandates he championed in Massachusetts.
The problem Mitt has had with his campaign is he simply is NOT CREDIBLE on the issues.
Health care is yet another in his flips and oddities.
And if this is not enough to convince ANY voter that Romney is NOT right for the Presidency, then check out his other inconsistencies and oddities:Scientology book one of his favorites
None of Mitt’s five adult sons had served in the military
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California Restaurant Owners Support Tax Increase to Pay for Health Care
Of course, the California Restaurant Association members will support either a sales or payroll tax increase to pay for health insurance for the uninsured.
Why?
So, as employers they won’t get stuck with the bill to pay for the health care of their low wage employees.
Everyone agrees that Californians should have the best health care available. The disagreement comes as to the financial responsibility for the massive costs.
Arnold’s 2007 health care plan is dead and the Governator has stated he will veto the Democrat’s plan to increase employer’s payroll taxes mandating health care insurance. And voters will never approve a sales tax increase.
The deadline for legislative action is September 15th.
Nothing will happen in the California Legislature this year – and thankfully so.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Health Care FLOP
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Amgen to Layoff 12 to 14% of its Workforce
Amgen towers above the housing development of Rancho Conejo, which has grown significantly over the past decade.
In business just as in real estate what goes up -Â can come down.
Amgen Inc. who has been riding high in the biotechnology world for almost two decades announced a retrenchment today.
Biotech giant Amgen Inc. of Thousand Oaks said today that it would cut 2,200 to 2,600 jobs as part of a sweeping plan to save more than $1 billion next year, in an unprecedented retrenchment for the typically buoyant biotech industry.
The cuts, which amount to 12% to 14% of the company’s workforce, follow a string of recent clinical and regulatory setbacks for the company, particularly involving Aranesp, its top revenue-producing biotech drug in the United States last year, with sales of $4.1 billion.
Although specific cuts were not part of the initial announcement, the company said it would close certain production operations and reduce the size of other units to become more efficient.
More than half of Amgen’s employees work at the company’s Ventura County headquarters, and analysts said the cuts were likely to have a significant effect on the local economy, which has boomed in recent years with Amgen’s success.
Flap lives in Rancho Conejo north of the Amgen campus and remembers when Amgen had a few employees who did not expect the company to survive a year or so – they were my dental patients. My dental office opened in 1979 before Amgen arrived and remember their early and struggling years.
Then, Amgen hit it big with two break-through drugs, Eopogen and Neupogen.
I remember arranging a meeting between the, then, Chairman of Amgen, Gordon Binder and the City Manager of Thousand Oaks, Grant Brimhall. At the time I was the dentist of one of Amgen’s executive Vice President’s and was also on the Thousand Oaks Planning Commission.
Amgen, you understand, had dreams to build a campus facility out of the myriad leased properties in the Rancho Conejo. Although Flap was elected to the Ventura County Community College Board and left the Thousand Oaks Planning Commission, I did have the opportunity to vote to approve the Rancho Conejo Specific Plan – involving the entire planning area north of the 101 Freeway.
So, this news will definitely devastate many families in the Thousand Oaks area. The real estate market here is already soft with home property values decreasing as much as 25% this past year. Home values will continue to decline precipitiously.
Business will also feel the pain.
There have always been rumors that Amgen will be purchased by a larger drug/pharmaceutical company.
Perhaps a merger or acquisition now will save these jobs.
Stay tuned……
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Health Care FLOP
The Wall Street Journal has a piece up today for subscribers describing the failure (FLOP) of the stalled California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s health care reform proposal.
Flap previously dismissed this misguided effort at universal socialized care with its concomitant tax increases here and here.
This proposal may not quite be dead but it is moribund. When the Governor has to travel to Fresno in the middle of the hot summer and fails to cajole and shame a recalcitrant California GOP State Senator to vote for his budget, it is doubtful that this controversial initiative will be able to obtain a 2/3 vote of the California Legislature.
In beating the drum for his plan, Mr. Schwarzenegger has often deplored what he calls the “hidden tax” of the current health-care system. Supposedly that describes the extent to which the costs of treating the uninsured shift to those who have insurance, thus making an argument for universal care.
Yet researchers at Stanford led by Dan Kessler ran the figures and demolished this claim. The total burden of this “cost shifting” in California amounted to only 2.8% of premiums in the 2000s. That’s not nothing, but in the Governor’s hands this modest hidden tax is an excuse for larger unhidden taxes. Perhaps the puncturing of this argument will prevent it from being deployed in the 2008 health-care debate, though don’t count on it.
If Arnold’s plan does fail, it will join “universal” health-care dreams in Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and other states that were also unveiled to hosannas but flopped once the fine print and costs were exposed. Alas, the failure of these state reforms probably won’t diminish political agitation for similar attempts that Democrats or Mr. Romney might propose in Washington. But it should.
There may be time (before the California Legislature adjourns at the end of September) for Schwarzenegger’s water infrastructure improvement proposals, including bonds for dams, Sacramento Delta improvement and a Peripheral Canal but Flap seriously doubts this health care plan is going anywhere except in the waste bin.
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