Hillary's Silly Catch-22 Health Plan Would Make Joseph Heller Proud.. [View All]

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Hillary's Catch-22 plan makes no sense to me. Let me see if I've got this right Hillary: You have to have insurance to get a job so that you can get insurance?

Joseph Heller would be so proud.

Forcing mandatory health insurance makes zero sense. The reason so many millions don't have insurance is not because they don't want it. Many people simply cannot afford it when they have a hard enough time with the basics of food, shelter and clothing.

An individual policy through State Farm or another insurer can easily cost $300-$400/month for a healthy single person. Add kids and a family and this can easily become $1000/month. For a great many working people, this is simply out of their price range when they have to pay rent and buy food first.

That is why I think Hillary's plan (and the very similar Republican Romney plan already in place in Massachutsetts) are both preposterous.

What is really needed is either mandatory EMPLOYER funded healthcare for ALL employees regardless of full-time/part-time status, massive government subsidies and price controls, OR single-payer gov't run (Canada style) health care and ABOVE ALL a total ban on pre-existing health conditions and pre-acceptance physicals.

Nothing else is fair.

Nothing else is affordable.

Insurance is supposed to be a gamble for the insurance company - not a sure thing where they get to cherry pick out only healthy customers.

Insurance is supposd to spread the risk amongst all coverees, not put the high risk customers adrift without a lifeboat in shark infested waters.

Hillary's attempt at imitation is both inferior and very slow in coming - John Edwards has had a real plan released for months now that helps real people.

It's time we select a REAL leader, not just another follower with one finger on one hand out in the wind and the other hand out for campaign donations from the health insurance and big pharma lobbies.

Tell Hillary Clinton goodbye and say hello to John Edwards!

Doug D.
Orlando, FL