And pay for it with tax increases on every taxpayer -- and on some who currently pay no taxes.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton inched closer Sunday to explaining how she would enforce her proposal that everyone have health insurance, but declined to specify — as she has throughout the campaign — how she would penalize those who refuse.

Mrs. Clinton, who did not answer Senator Barack Obama’s question on the topic in a debate last Thursday, was pressed repeatedly to do so Sunday by George Stephanopoulos on the ABC program “This Week.” When Mr. Stephanopoulos asked a third time whether she would garnish people’s wages, Mrs. Clinton responded, “George, we will have an enforcement mechanism, whether it’s that or it’s some other mechanism through the tax system or automatic enrollments.”

She then added that the focus on enforcement clouded a more important point, that her proposal to cover the uninsured was superior to Mr. ObamaÂ’s because she would mandate coverage for all, while he would require it only for children.

But let's ignore the anti-freedom, and potentially anti-poor, approach of fining folks who cannot afford Clinton's plan -- she is also proposing a huge tax increase to fund this program.

Mrs. Clinton argues that she can make premiums affordable for low-income workers by spending $110 billion on subsidies and cost-saving devices. Like Mr. Obama, she would pay for her plan primarily by allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire for the wealthiest Americans. She would not allow exemptions from the insurance mandate, as Massachusetts does for those who cannot afford even subsidized premiums.

That's right -- your tax bill will increase to pay for HillaryCare II. and since the Bush tax cuts took some low-income Americans completely off the income tax rolls, that means that there are Americans currently exempt from the income tax who will suddenly be required to pay, in addition to needing to scrape together the cash to pay for their health insurance.

Sounds to me like Hillary's health care "plan", details of which she refuses to disclose to the American public before the election, is bad medicine for America.

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