Both Michelle Malkin and the Hotline took note:
Chelsea Clinton doesn’t say much on the campaign trail with her mother — famously declining to answer questions recently from a 9-year-old Scholastic News reporter. But she headed to her alma mater, Stanford University, yesterday to meet with 100 students involved in the Inter-Sorority Council.
Both also highlighted the former First Daughter’s answer to a question about health care:
“(My mother) and Senator (John) Edwards are committed to universal healthcare,†she said. “Senator (Barack) Obama (D-Ill.) is committed to what we call ‘virtual’ universal healthcare which would make it an option for people to buy into the system. What my mother argues is that if you don’t mandate that everyone have healthcare, the healthy people may not buy into the system, which means that the average cost of insuring people is a lot higher.â€Â
A Malkin reader asked, “Oh did you like how she was nice to John Edwards? Hmmm.â€Â Malkin responded that Edwards won’t be returning the favor.
That is probably true. As I have previously noted, Edwards had to know almost from the outset that he was running to be NotClinton. Nevertheless, the Clinton camp likely recognizes that Edwards delegates could possibly hold the balance if the Democratic primary campaign goes down to the wire. Thus, necessity must be the mother of obsequiousness, if not invention.
Moreover, Clinton has a pitch to make to Edwards, if necessary:
Edwards is the candidate of Anger. Obama is the candidate of Unity. Clinton is the Tough, Tested candidate. As Headline Junky puts it:
What Hillary Clinton alludes to but never comes out and says when she mentions her experience with Team Clinton is that she has experience not so much in governing, but in campaigning. That’s why she thinks she’s more prepared to take on the GOP candidate come November, and why she so often brings the argument back to dealing with the rigors of the campaign.
Should the time come, Clinton can argue to Edwards that the Edwards campaign was not about Unity so much as it was about Sticking It To The Man. Accordingly, he should put his support behind the candidate who is more fighter than lover.
Whether Edwards would find that argument convincing is an open question. Depending on how events unfold, however, he may need only a rationale, rather than a reason.
Comment by Pablo on 1/14 @ 8:38 pm #
Why don’t we just vote for Romney then? He figured out that if you fine people who don’t by in, just taking their money without returning value if they don’t play along, the problem is solved.
Comment by Bill D. Cat on 1/14 @ 10:01 pm #
He figured out that if you fine tax the living shit out of people who don’t by in, just taking their money without returning value if they don’t play along, the problem is solved.
Welcome to Canada y’all !
Comment by happyfeet on 1/14 @ 10:01 pm #
Somehow I don’t think Democrats are going to notice that their primary is a referendum on mandatory vs. voluntary participation in some healthcare plan. They just want to beat Bush in November.
Comment by Bill D. Cat on 1/14 @ 10:04 pm #
Sorry Pablo . I tried to strike through fine and add tax the living shit out of
Comment by Bill D. Cat on 1/14 @ 10:06 pm #
Do not , whatever you people do , concede the care of your person to the state .
Comment by Pablo on 1/14 @ 10:10 pm #
Or in other words, stay out of Massachussetts. And don’t elect Hill, Barry or Silky. Or Mitt.
Comment by Bill D. Cat on 1/14 @ 10:27 pm #
Department of Revenue
Sounds sinister , or Canadian , you pick .
Comment by Pablo on 1/14 @ 10:34 pm #
Very sinister, Bill. Like the devil in a
blue dressK-Mart pantsuit.Comment by Jeff aka Alcyoneus on 1/14 @ 10:35 pm #
I did not have International Relations with that women, Chelsea Clinton, at Oxford.
Seriously, though. It takes a village to take care of me. And I know why the caged bird sings — it wants to get the hell out of socialist hell.
Comment by Bill D. Cat on 1/14 @ 10:47 pm #
penalty guidelines
That really has a bitter tone to it .
Comment by happyfeet on 1/14 @ 10:47 pm #
Mostly your caged bird can either sing or not sing. It’s kind of binary like that. I never really understood the why part. If you really wanted a caged bird that was singing and your caged bird flatout refused you’d just go get one of the singing ones and let the mute one go or take it back where you got it. That’s what I’d do anyway. In the time it takes to write a poem about it you could have the whole situation pretty much resolved is my point.
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/14 @ 10:52 pm #
yeah, cause then your name would be Ian. duh.
Comment by daleyrocks on 1/14 @ 11:12 pm #
Chelsea has apparently moved on from the world of consulting to that of hedge funds, big donors to the democrat party while raping and pillaging America for fun and profit.
Comment by B Moe on 1/14 @ 11:15 pm #
“What my mother argues is that if you don’t mandate that everyone have healthcare, the healthy people may not buy into the system, which means that the average cost of insuring people is a lot higher.â€Â
I hope her understanding of arithmetic is better when she is doing the hedge fun thing, because the average cost in this case is meaningless. The total cost is what is going to bankrupt the country.
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/15 @ 12:35 am #
not if you’re trying to be fair, B Moe.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 1/15 @ 1:14 am #
I so put my trust in Pablo
What my mother argues is that if you don’t mandate that everyone have healthcare, the healthy people may not buy into the system, which means that the average cost of insuring people is a lot higher.â€Â
Noooo!!!???? She really said this? really?
The Hedge Fund manager said this?
Comment by daleyrocks on 1/15 @ 1:57 am #
TS – The healthy peeps subsidize the sickos, so if everyone is going to be charged the same rate, a pool with a combo of healthy people and sick people can charge a lower average rate than a pool of just sick people (e.g. poor risks). Of course a separate pool of healthy people would pay an even lower rate. It’s something called the Law of Large Numbers.
Comment by alppuccino on 1/15 @ 3:34 am #
I’m afraid I have no idea why the caged bird sings. I do know why Terrell Owens cried though. He knows what’s important.
Comment by alppuccino on 1/15 @ 3:35 am #
Ooh. JD. That must have stung a little.
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I wasn’t thinking.
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We even now?
Comment by steveaz on 1/15 @ 6:39 am #
Chelsea has given away Hillary’s game: Hillary! wants healthy people to pay the medical bills of sick people. Period.
I dunno, but I’m inclined to pay my own medical bills when I am sick, and to let other folks pay their own bills when they are sick.
Otherwise, what’s to stop me (or them) from becoming a hypochondriac, and scoring all that paid-for professional attention.
Afterall, we’ve all got a little Munchausen deep inside of us, just screaming to get out.
Comment by B Moe on 1/15 @ 7:10 am #
Chelsea is talking about the average cost, not the average rate. All taxpayers are going to be footing the bill, so adding low-cost healthy people isn’t going to affect the total cost to the taxpayers much. It will just lower the average paid out per participant, the total is still going to be astronomical.
Comment by McGehee on 1/15 @ 7:32 am #
The caged bird sings because if it doesn’t, it’s cat food.
Damned if I’m going to feed and clean up after a bird that won’t @#$!ing sing!