No transcript and no statement on his exact words but Bryan at the excellent Hotair notes that Barack Obama would "fine" parents who don't get health care for their kids:
The issue of mandates for health care has driven the debate between Clinton and Obama for the past few weeks. Obama says he would enforce his mandate for health care for all children by fining parents if they refused to allow health care coverage for their children.Think about that, Obama said he would fine a parent if they refused health care. What if they couldn't afford the fine? Would they then go to jail? This is un-American to the extreme.
"I am happy to be very clear how we enforce mandates for children, and the reason is because children don't have an option."
Whenever you hear the words mandatory and enforcement from a Presidential candidate, it's going to be expensive and it's going to be intrusive. There are some religions that eschew medical treatment, would they then be prosecuted?
If the Dems win, we will have socialized medicine and will see the quality of the medical care we receive drastically degraded. To mandate--as the Silky Pony did a few days ago--that Americans do anything they don't want to do is a prescription for disaster.
I would hope that this was a slip-up by Obama and can be filed away as him being tired or not choosing his words correctly but I know it wasn't.
Exit question: Has there ever been a greater example of the difference between Democrats and the GOP? Republicans are for personal choice on all matters, Democrats are against personal choice in every respect except for abortion. I'll take the former please.
Update: Mitt Romney did the exact same thing in Massachusetts as pointed out by this commenter at Bryan's post:
You have to buy car insurance if you own a car. You have to buy home insurance to get a mortgage. Why don't you have to buy health insurance?
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney re-ignited that debate last month when he announced a plan to expand health coverage to all the state's residents, with a caveat that those who don't buy coverage could face a penalty.
"We can't have as a nation 40 million people — or, in my state, half a million — saying, 'I don't have insurance, and if I get sick, I want someone else to pay,' " says Romney, a Republican who says he might run for president in 2008.
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What I think the gov. has set this up long time age to first make a law that everybody gets insur. and then cut off healthcare now the gov system can make a lot more money the fines. What I think that this is a scam to pay off depts.
No matter Dem or Rep they are not for any body with out power. Stand and be the power and stop the bad action from own goverment the legal way. get rid of the bad and replace with new. what I think Everybody should stop paying the gov and stop buying gas.
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