What the guy is saying is that if he has his way, every kid must have health care coverage. If you have bought private health care coverage for your child (say, through your employer-provided family health plan) then you’re OK. If not, you must sign up to the government plan. If you don’t do either, you are risking the health of your child and the Man will come after you.
factoid on November 29, 2007 at 10:37 AM

Why do you have to sign up for ‘the government plan’?

If there is a government plan to cover all children who do not have private insurance, they are all covered. Go to the hospital, they are a child, the bill is paid.

Since being illegal makes no difference, being a citizen makes no difference, it stands that anything shorter than Michey Rooney goes to a doctor and gets his meds – no questions asked

A parental registration is hardly needed

Unless – we are demanding that certain classes of parents purchase private insurance with their own dollars. Then we need oversight and jail time for the slackers

Redistribution begins in the other guy’s pocket

fining parents if they refused to allow health care coverage for their children – Obama

Who would refuse to ‘allow’ something? Allowing is giving permission. Hey if you want to give my kid health insurance great.

By ‘allow’ he means ‘refusing to purchase that which I deem required. I will decide who pays and who gets it free’.

What a mealy mouth two faced leftist phoney.

Kind of like the Man will come after you if you don’t have your kid in school. You can buy your child private education, or if you can’t/don’t want to, you can put your kid in public school (or home school them under government supervision). What you cannot do is keep your kids illiterate.

The constitutional authority thing is not a big deal either. The Federal Government can enforce something like this either the way the late term abortion ban is enforced (under the commerce clause) or the way No Child Left Behind is enforced (by offering carrots to complying states and withholding them from those that don’t).

The libs have no concept of the principles on which our country was founded and on which the Constitution is based. Lord help us if they get the White House and the Congress.

Nah.

The only problem is too many Republicans are so weak that they can’t say “there is no health care crisis and even if there were government should not even try to solve it.”

As bad as Obama is, how dare Mitt tell me that under his plan I will have private insurance or else…

I’m moving to ….
SouthernGent on November 28, 2007 at 7:13 PM

There’s always Denmark.

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libertytexan on November 28, 2007 at 6:16 PM

heh.

You can imagine the possibilities: Your kid is exhibiting individualist streaks, here is a mandatory prescription to Ritalyn. Your kid voicing conservative opinions: lobotomy.

Demss truly want a nanny state. Control the populus from the get go to condition them to government control.

we have a battle on our hands, my friends, and the enemy fighting along side the terrorists is the DNC.

Yeah,, that was it. That works.