Clinton & Health Care

Angela Winters, a black moderate blogger, discusses Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care proposal: "How would we pay for $110 billion a year in health care? And all the blah, blah, blah about partnering with companies to pay for it is not gonna happen because stockholders won't tolerate this. We're in a war that is costing millions every week with no clear end in sight? Our deficit is obscene. We're going to enter a recession in 2008 because of all this housing nonsense and the Euro is about to surpass the Dollar as the currency of choice across the world. Our health care system and our taxes will look like Canada after this; and both are complete disasters. Based on my knowledge of almost nothing about health care, I think the answer to the problem is a free market that resembles car insurance. Car insurance isn't cheap, but it is manageable, covers the big things and takes care of you in a disaster. Because they know it won't cover everything, people are more likely to take care of their cars. Car insurance would cost at least thousands more if we expected it to pay (minus a $15 copay) for the cost to fill it with gas, replace a tire, change the oil and so on. These items don't belong in insurance. They are left to consumers to pay, so they wouldn't abuse it and the demand has created competition in a private market supplier field and competition is how you keep prices low. This is why you can get an oil change for $19.99. There is no $7 processing fee and $50 overhead charge from Geico."