Obama Open to Plan Requiring Everyone to Get Insurance

President Obama said Wednesday that he was receptive to Congressional proposals that would require every American to have health insurance and that would force employers to offer health insurance to their employees. But he said there should be exemptions for people who cannot afford coverage and for small businesses in general.

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4 comments on “Obama Open to Plan Requiring Everyone to Get Insurance

  1. robroy says:

    See the video here about the overhyped uninsured:

    http://tinyurl.com/oebj9v

  2. Br. Michael says:

    [blockquote] He did not use the terms “individual mandate” and “employer mandate,” which suggest a degree of coercion that Democrats try to avoid implying. Still, the letter provides the fullest statement of Mr. Obama’s views on proposals at the heart of legislation to cover all Americans, his top domestic priority. [/blockquote]
    And he proposes to tax health benefits as income, which would have to be paid out of already taxed income. So no pressure or coercion here. But not to worry because “Big Brother and the Democrats know best.”

  3. flaanglican says:

    It was said in the 1990s during the HillaryCare days and I’ll say it again, “If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it’s ‘free.'”

  4. Billy says:

    OK, so I see a theme and a trend here emerging from health care and the bailout of the motor vehicle industry – – while BHO says he does not want the government to takeover and run private industry, he is definitely setting up government-run companies to compete with private industry. So how did our government respond in the past to other countries’ subsidizing of industries that exported products to our country? So how has it worked out in the past for government companies to compete with private industry? How has it worked out for government to takeover a sector of private industry? How has it worked out for government to takeover private industry?

    Elections do have consequences, don’t they! His education and background were almost totally based in collectivism. He voting record was almost totally for government control of anything. The signs were there; the warnings were given. They were ignored. Now we are on our way to the change he talked about – only it’s change back to early 20th Century Russia and mid-20th Century China. Can the 2010 and 2012 elections come fast enough?