I have a feeling John Edwards is going to get blasted, dropped, crushed and put in the back seat in the not-so-distant future of the 2008 Presidential Campaign.
Universal Healthcare
Edwards platform is focusing way too much on a plan that he claims will “transform America’s health care system and provide universal healthcare for every man, woman and child in America.”
Edwards was a medical malpractice attorney in another life, and while I’m not here to judge whether his cases were just or not, it’s one of the things that will work against him on this platform issue. Edwards also used subchapter-S corporate dividend rules that allowed him to not have to pay $591,000 in Medicaire taxes. Major props to Edwards for understanding how to minimize his tax burden, but I think you can see the problem he’ll face with voters and within the media.
He wants healthcare for everyone on one hand (noble thought) while participating in activities that appear contrary to supporting it personally. Right or wrong? I don’t care, but they (Democrats and Republicans) will come after him on this one.
How John Edwards Universal Healthcare Plan Violates Principle
The Edwards plan claims to achieve universal healthcare by:
- “Requiring businesses and other employers to either cover their employees or help finance their health insurance.”
- “Making insurance affordable . . . ”
- ” . . . requiring all American residents to get insurance.”
Requiring, making and requiring are the huge problems with his plan. You don’t even need to read the rest. They’re politician words for “we’ll make it the law.” We’ll make it the law means we’ll need money to draft the law, money for a government agency to carry out the logistics of the law and money to enforce the law. And who pays for government funded agencies that oversee laws? You do. I do. The people who can’t pay for health insurance and the business owners who now have to pay for the health insurance. (That means they pay for it twice.) That means less money for the employees.
What happens to business owners who don’t keep the law? They pay a fine. What if they don’t pay the fine? They go to jail. What if they refuse to go to jail? They are taken by force. What if they fight the force? They die. That’s what happens to people who fight the police. It seems crazy, outlandish and over the top, but it’s true. This is how laws work. They’re made to be enforced, and violators face consequences.
And what of his plan to require every American to have health insurance? Do they pay a fine if they don’t want health insurance?
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Edwards is shedding the softie,breck girl image though…here’s video proof:
http://www.minor-ripper.blogspot.com
[...] “We can’t have as a nation 40 million people — or, in my state, half a million — saying, ‘I don’t have insurance, and if I get sick, I want someone else to pay,” Gov. Mitt Romney. Contrast that with the DNCs folks forcing business owners to pay for universal healthcare. Which ones do you really think are telling people what they want to hear LaVera? [...]
What an idiotic, no-information commentary. Just appeal to people’s greed and fear in an attempt to dumb them down?
If you’ve got something significant to say then serve it up. We’re ALL EARS for a plan that works. Otherwise, go hoard some more money for the next person in YOUR family that can’t access the medical support they need.
Sick of do-nothing, fear-monging, cynical nay-sayers,
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When you are willing to discuss it instead of make hypocritical personal attacks, we\\\’ll talk. You sound like every other open-handed person who thinks that people with a lot of money work in greed.
The point is, force is never a good plan. Force is what John Edwards is suggesting. Force is the ideal of a socialistic society, not a free society, and hoarding has nothing to do with it. Maybe if you stopped bitching about \\\”hoarders\\\” who are actually some of the biggest contributors to our economy and started thinking about ways to provide something of value yourself, you\\\’d find that we\\\’d be hosed without your so-called people who \\\”hoard.\\\”
The plan that works is the free market. How\’s North Carolina?
[...] Strategy: Branding is a Candidate’s Best Friend While other candidates like John Edwards are focus on election-losing issues like universal healthcare, Clinton is branding herself as the “Roadmap out of Iraq” candidate. Her team gets this part. Pick the hottest topic possible, and be the leading opposition on the issue. Bush gets criticized for having not plan. “Roadmap” is exactly the opposite. Iraq has created some seriously heated debated in this country. “Out of Iraq” addresses that. Her team gets it. Tell the same message about the hottest issue again, and again and again, and tell it the same way. Email, video, etc… Tell it the same way. Now, I’m not saying other issues aren’t important, I’m saying there are election-losing issues that a candidate can address later - once he or she is in office. [...]
[...] I believe we should stand against candidates who promote legislation that enables force and coercion in the name of “the public good” because force destroys freedom and prosperity. [...]
[...] DON’T jump on the Michael Moore SiCKO bandwagon and claim that you support universal healthcare after watching this horribly one-sided film because at the end of the day, the more you learn about UHC, the more you’ll see how it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Sphere: Related Content [...]
Um, I don’t know what everyone else is talking about, but this commentary is right on the mark. Making something the law doesn’t make it more feasable, practical, or even LOGICAL. It just makes it punishable.
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