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Chelsea Clinton doesn't say much on the campaign trail with her mother -- famously declining to answer questions recently from a 9-year-old Scholastic News reporter. But she headed to her alma mater, Stanford University, yesterday to meet with 100 students involved in the Inter-Sorority Council.
Highlights, per The Stanford Daily:
“We are just trying to make my mom’s campaign more accessible to people,” she said. “We want to make sure that young people feel like the campaign is talking about issues that you care about and is delivering its plans and ideas in a way that resonates with you. “
“When I was at Stanford I was constantly haranguing my friends to vote, and unfortunately so many of them actually didn’t vote,” Clinton said. “You don’t have that excuse any more in California. Voting actually started a week ago.”
“Unfortunately, the Bush administration has not been planning to end the war,” she said. “A couple days ago, President Bush reiterated that he thinks the troops might be there for 10 years.”
“[My mother] and Senator [John] Edwards are committed to universal healthcare,” she said. “Senator [Barack] Obama [D-Ill.] is committed to what we call ‘virtual’ universal healthcare which would make it an option for people to buy into the system. What my mother argues is that if you don’t mandate that everyone have healthcare, the healthy people may not buy into the system, which means that the average cost of insuring people is a lot higher.”
“I know that there is this dichotomy between change and experience that I think is really false and actually find offensive,” she said, “because I think my mom has been an agent for positive change in people’s lives for longer than I’ve been alive.
“I think it really matters what people have done in their lives,” she added. “I don’t know anyone who has done more for more people, particularly more young people and more young women, than my mom.”
What my mother argues is that if you don’t mandate that everyone have healthcare, the healthy people may not buy into the system, which means that the average cost of insuring people is a lot higher.”
Quite the little Clintonette. Healthy people aren't being mandated to have healthcare, because, forgive me if this gets too complicated, THEY AREN'T SICK. You can't provide healthcare to someone who is already healthy. What they are being provided with is being mandated to pay for other peoples' healthcare. None of this has to do with how much it costs to provide healthcare, all it affects is the healthtax rate. It just shows the lie of the so-called crisis of uninsured. People aren't buying a product they don't need. Bottom line is it is another tax to pay for a service that people don't want and everyone is better off if they just take responsibility for their own lives.
Healthy people aren't being mandated to have healthcare, because, forgive me if this gets too complicated, THEY AREN'T SICK.
The funny thing about this statement--and forgive me if it gets too complicated for you--is that healthy people do get sick and sometimes it can be a pretty catastrophic illness, like cancer, or they become disabled after a severe accident. Cancer and disability don't discriminate; it can happen to anyone at any time.
That's why there's insurance. To insure that there's a resource to help you when something catastrophic does happen.
"That's why there's insurance. To insure that there's a resource to help you when something catastrophic does happen."
And in order to protect us from the catastrophic, the democrats will mandate that everyone buy health insurance with hangnail coverage.
You can get catastrophic heath coverage in this country for as little as $30 a month. If you are over 35 years old, maybe it's $50 a month. It's available and it's affordable.
Sick and tire:
With all due respect, that is the most idiotic comment I have heard in a while, and considering what you see online, that says a lot. Of course you need healthy people to buy into the Health Care System! That is how an insurance system works! The purpose of an insurance system is to distribute risk among the larges possible pool. For example, not everybody will have a car accident on a given year, still we all contribute, so those who have accidents are covered. So, by your logic, auto insurance should only be purchase by those who know will have an accident? Premiums would be so high that that group, the accident prone would not buy into the system. So when they go and have an accident, and hit you, they will not be able to pay, and since you are a good drive and don't need insurance, you will not be able to pay either! Another problem with your argument is that while young people are generally healthier that older folks, they do take more risk and have a generally higher rate of accidents. Since they will not be insured, they will pass the cost to us, the general public, without paying into it! You do jot get insurance only if you are sick, you get insurance when you are healthy, and premium is lower, to protect yourself against the possibility of something going wrong. Is this too complicated for you or should I draw you a picture?
"Quite the little Clintonette. Healthy people aren't being mandated to have healthcare, because, forgive me if this gets too complicated, THEY AREN'T SICK. You can't provide healthcare to someone who is already healthy."
A person doesn't need to be sick to receive healthcare. Have you had your immunizations? Immunizations are at the prevention level of healthcare. Education about screenings for early detection and/or prevention of different illnesses, life changing events (i.e.pregnancies, accidents), etc There are so many things included in "healthcare" you couldn't even list them all. And lets say that a perfectly "healthy" person (which doesn't even exist) does develop something and they didn't have insurance because they were "healthy" what do they do now. That's considered a pre-existing illness, which means that at this point even if they wanted to get insurance...insurance wouldn't cover it. I think educating people about healthcare is the key factor. There are so many misunderstandings about cost and level of care. For example: A new mother and her child have insurance which is provided locally through their state...the baby gets an ear infection and instead of making an appointment with the baby's doctor mom takes the baby to the emergency room...do you realize how much more the cost of the e.r. was compared to what the cost to the doctor's office would've been even though the same care was provided. Educating the public about healthcare in general would help decrease costs. If everyone were required to have their own insurance and no one was covered by their state that would decrease taxes for one and it would also lead to a decrease in healthcare costs in altogether because prevention is much cheaper than tertiary care.