Another misleading mailer. This time from OBAMA

[catagory5]

Apparently Edwards former Health advisor agrees with Clinton on this issue. Note the part that says "Any policy that would achieve universal coverage, he said, has to include some kind of mandate.
"It's about making sure everyone participates in the health care system," said Harbage, "and pays in what they can afford."

by: Dean Barker
Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 20:54:45 PM EST

Since I spent some posting space bringing up the Clinton anti-Obama NH mailer, it's only fair, I think, to mention another mailer that's similarly being denounced today, this time from Obama. The mailer attacks the mandate in Clinton's health care plan, saying:
"Hillary's health care plan forces everyone to buy insurance, even if you can't afford it."
John Edwards' former health advisor was not amused:
Harbage said he wasn't speaking for Edwards and that he hasn't joined up with a new campaign, but that he was so angered by the mail piece that he decided to speak out about it.
Any policy that would achieve universal coverage, he said, has to include some kind of mandate.
"It's about making sure everyone participates in the health care system," said Harbage, "and pays in what they can afford."

That ensures not only that everyone has access to health care but also that costs will be lower, he said. Other payers in the system bear the cost when uninsured people end up in the emergency room.

The other aspect of the mailer that has people up in arms (and a .pdf of it is available through the link above) is that the visuals are reminiscent of the infamous "Harry and Louise" ads that played against Hillary's health care proposal in the 1990's.
So, is this mailer misleading, or just harsh?

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IFrom USA Today, today (0.00 / 0)

This past December, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman took Sen. Barack Obama's campaign to task for running a radio ad that was critical of now-Democratic presidential rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's healthcare plan. "He's running an ad that bears a striking resemblance to the infamous Harry and Louise ads, run by the insurance industry, that helped block health care reform in 1993," Krugman wrote. "Call it the audacity of cynicism."

[sandnsea]

1. Mandates do not create full compliance with anything

People who say that are delusional and just ignore the statistics of all the other mandated programs like auto insurance and child support. There isn't anything wrong with Obama's mailer and everybody who has to figure out where to get the money from, knows it.

[sidwill]

2. 27 posts and no link?

LOLz

HIl is that you?

[catagory5]

3. sorry

http://www.bluehampshire.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3422

[sidwill]

5. Well reposting another person's work on a blog AND being a 28 post newbie

is slightly more acceptable.

Carry on, may your 29th post be as weak as your 27th.

[Renew Deal]

4. Another of the sockpuppets.

[chascarrillo]

6. Universal coverage does not mandate a mandate.

C'mon, use a little imagination, why dontcha?