Hillarycare, Day Deux: Everyone Join Hands -- Or Else! |
| Published: September 18, 2007, 6:43 am |
| Tags: 2008 presidential, universal health care, david brooks, hillary clinton, new york times, times select |
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When it comes to health care, could there be anything more antithetical to the American ideal than Big Government being completely in charge? Actually, yes. It would be big government creating a system that requires private-sector entities whose interests inherently oppose to "come together" to form "partnerships" for the greater good. Yesterday I wrote here about the way in which Hillary's plan forces all Americans, willing or not, to obtain health care insurance, and in an Orwellian twist calling it "choice." More details about Hillary's plan emerge in Davd Brooks's New York Times column [still p.p.v., but free along with the other columnists as of Wednesday when Times Select goes the way of New Coke.] Writes Brooks [emphasis added]: [W]hen I spoke with Hillary Clinton yesterday, I asked what her newly unveiled plan revealed about her political philosophy. The word she kept coming back to was partnerships. She described an array of different [ Full article ] |
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