Gotta get those 20-somethings and rich people

It isn't about making sure everyone has healthcare, it is about making sure everyone is paying into the system. Now Obama admits that he favors mandated healthcare insurance for every American (including, I suppose the squatters). This means your adults in the 20's and it also means the truly rich who don't need insurance to see a doctor, buy prescriptions or pay for surgery. It is all about getting more money into the pool and under the influence of big government.


Dr. LaPook: Ultimately, philosophically, do you believe that each individual American should be required to have health insurance?

President Obama: I have come to that conclusion. During the campaign, I was opposed to this idea because my general attitude was the reason people don't have health insurance is not because they don't want it, but because they can't afford it. And if you make it affordable, then they will come. I've been persuaded that there are enough young uninsured people who are cheap to cover, but are opting out. To make sure that those folks are part of the overall pool is the best way to make sure that all of our premiums go down. I am now in favor of some sort of individual mandate as long as there's a hardship exemption. If somebody truly just can't afford health insurance even with the subsidies that the government is now providing, we don't want to double penalize them. We want to phase this in, in a way that we have time to make sure that coverage is actually affordable before we're saying to people "go out and get it."

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