Why mandatory health insurance won’t work

2006-12-22

Filet Mignon, Pinot Noir and an MRI

This view of America’s health-care system has led a number of pundits and politicians to advocate mandatory health insurance. Massachusetts has made national headlines because it is about to institute that exact policy.

Other states are sure to follow. In California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has already announced that health-care reform will be the cornerstone of next year’s agenda. And most expect his plan to mirror the one in Massachusetts.

But mandatory health insurance is a step in the wrong direction.

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Word is getting out

2006-12-22

Hillary Care coming to a state near you!

Mandatory universal health insurance, which was killed by Congress a decade ago when it was known as Hillary Care, is returning to a state near you, officials have confirmed. Only this time instead of a nationwide program instituted by Congress, state legislatures are setting up the requirements.

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Antiphon, December 22 (O Rex gentium)

2006-12-22

O King of the Gentiles and their desired One,
the Cornerstone that makes both one:

Come,

and deliver man,
whom you formed out of the dust of the earth.
Amen.


O Rex gentium, et desideratus earum,
lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unem:

veni,

et salva hominem,
quem de limo formasti.

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