By Conn Carroll
TonyfromOz prefaces …..
Have you noticed something that has become prevalent these days. You sit and watch the TV news and current affairs TV where someone is interviewing any politician from the Government who is in front of the cameras and behind the microphones, and the same thing applies as you watch this short video. Think for one minute. Have you ever found yourself talking to the image on the screen of that politician, and saying the same thing, time after time. “Answer the damned question.”
According to the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), the House health care bill passed last Friday empowers the federal government to imprison people for up to five years if they willfully refuse to buy federally regulated and approved health insurance.
Shomari Stone of Komo 4 News in Seattle pressed the Speaker on this point yesterday. Watch:
President Barack Obama recently told ABC News’ Jake Tapper that he shares Pelosi’s belief that jail time is an appropriate punishment for not buying health insurance. Obama did not always believe this. Debating Hillary Clinton in 2008, Obama said:
And I think that it is important for us to recognize that if, in fact, you are going to mandate the purchase of insurance and it’s not affordable, then there’s going to have to be some enforcement mechanism that the government uses. And they may charge people who already don’t have health care fines, or have to take it out of their paychecks. And that, I don’t think, is helping those without health insurance.
Conn Carroll is the Assistant Director of Strategic Communications at The Heritage Foundation and is also an Editor at The Foundry.
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