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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dougjn who wrote (3161)	9/16/1998 1:41:00 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 67261

All three of those issues you mention as Clinton initiatives are frauds. HMO reform would greatly increase the cost of insurance by expanding litigation and continue to price insurance beyond the affordability of people. The government is primarily responsible for causing this insurance affordability crisis by shifting costs, by passing laws to artificially raise premiums on the healthy, and by not capping the costs of litigation. Tobacco bill was just a huge tax bill in disguise. The issue started out with the goal of reducing teen smoking and offsetting smoking-related medical costs. Instead, the idiot and his friends in Congress started piling on all sorts of programs to be funded by the taxes. If they were really sincere about using the tobacco taxes to offset smoking-related costs, everyone who has insurance should be rebated that part of their insurance premiums related to lung disease. As for social security, Clinton has no proposal. And neither does anyone else. Social security cannot be fixed. The insolvency can just be pushed off farther into the future by 2 or 3 decades. Each of the 'solutions' that have been mentioned indicate that Social Security insolvency will be staved off for 50 or 75 years more. If just means the debt grows ever larger until the day of reckoning. We've had two Social Security 'saving' tax increases since 1980.