If people don’t pay for their own health insurance, Hillary Clinton thinks garnishing their wages to pay for it anyway is a good idea.

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing to garnish the wages of workers who refuse to buy health insurance to achieve coverage for all Americans.

The New York senator has criticized presidential rival Barack Obama for pushing a health plan that would not require universal coverage. Clinton has not always specified the enforcement measures she would embrace, but when pressed on ABC’s “This Week,” she said: “I think there are a number of mechanisms” that are possible, including “going after people’s wages, automatic enrollment.”

Clinton said such measures would apply only to workers who can afford health coverage but refuse to buy it, which puts undue pressure on hospitals and emergency rooms. With her proposals for subsidies, she said, “it will be affordable for everyone.”

I’m all for revamping the health care industry, it does need to be fixed, but government mandated health care is not the answer. If it was we would hear about thousands of people leaving the United States for health care in other countries, but we don’t. In fact, we always hear about people coming here to have procedures done. We have the best health care in the world, we just need to make it more affordable to those who desperately need it.

Also, when my son had his surgery, we had insurance, sucky insurance, and I made payments for a year and a half to pay it all off. There was no “undue pressure on the hospital”. They still got their money and in many cases they do. I don’t think we would see much difference whether it was my own sucky company provided insurance or government controlled crap coming down the same tube.

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