This Is Just Creepy

Hillary Clinton on requiring participation in the newest Hillarycare universal health insurance plan: "At this point, we don't have anything punitive that we have proposed."

However, she envisions a future when "you have to show proof to your employer that you're insured as a part of the job interview."

Meanwhile, what's with Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt telling USA Today that "President Bush wants to achieve universal health care before he leaves office... Bush will urge Congress to join him in seeking coverage for all Americans. 'He'd like to see the larger debate begin. The very best opportunity we have may well be in the next 15 months.'"

My initial impulse was that Leavitt had to be wrong about the President's goal, which will come as news to those who voted for him, but given the President's disappointing open borders attitude and his recent nomination of an attorney general who seems designed to placate the left, who knows?