Hillary Will Take Your Wages To Pay For Health Care

If Hillary Clinton is elected, her main focus (probably to the exclusion of just about everything else) will be universal health care, otherwise better known as socialized medicine. During an ABC News interview she admitted that if necessary, she will garnish your wages to pay for the plan even if you don't want to participate:

Will Hillary Clinton as president tap into workers' wages to achieve her goal of health insurance for all Americans?

The possibility exists as the candidate was pressed on the matter during a television interview today.

Speaking on ABC's "This Week" program, the Democratic senator from New York said she might be willing to have wages garnisheed if people refuse to buy health insurance.

"I think universal health care is a core Democratic value and a moral principle, and I'm absolutely gonna do everything I can to achieve that," Clinton said. "I think there are a number of mechanisms" possible, including "going after people's wages, automatic enrollment."

Host George Stephanapolous asked Clinton specifically about garnisheeing wages at least three times before she made the admission.

"What we've got to do is have shared responsibility. Everybody has to pay something, but obviously on a sliding scale," Clinton said. "I think you can automatically enroll people, and you will then say, 'You've got to be part of this.'"

"If you don't start with universal health care, if you don't say everybody's going to be in the system, we'll never get there," she added.

Have any of these Democrats who are so anxious for socialized medicine ever actually studied how it works in other countries? Why is it that Canadians tired of waiting their turn come to America and pay for their own surgeries? What about the long waits for elective procedures in Britain? Is this what we want?

I can see the scene now from a few years down the road. You're at Uncle Joe's funeral. He's died because he couldn't get the care he needed in time thanks to an overburdened government-run health care system. You pay your respects to his liberal family members and their response is "yeah, he died, but at least the government paid for most of it".