HillaryCare - A punishment by any other name. . .

Tucker Carlson was interviewing a top Clinton campaign figure, Kiki McLean (no, really, that's her name) on MSNBC the other day about Clinton's plan to ensure that everyone has health insurance.

Carlson was trying to get McLean to specify what would happen to those who refuse to buy into the plan.He eventually got his answer. In a classic Orwellian euphemism, such people would have to endure "an outcome." (Thanks to Newsbusters for the transcript)

CARLSON: She's soft-selling the stick. She's selling the carrot; she's not talking about the stick, the punishment for not going along with her vision of the Brave New World.

MCLEAN: The reality is, that we're going to have to bring everybody into the plan, and there's going to have to be --

CARLSON: Punishment.

MCLEAN: Outcomes. There's going to have to be an outcome for people who don't participate because it all affects us. Remember, we are a community that lives here.

CARLSON [bursting into laughter]: I love that: an "outcome"!

MCLEAN: There has to be an outcome.

CARLSON: Is that what you call it when you spank a child: this is the "outcome"?

MCLEAN: I don't spank my children.

So I guess there are substantive differences among the democrats on the issue of healthcare. A vote for Obama is a vote for "mandated universal coverage", and a vote for Clinton is a vote for "mandated universal coverage or suffer the outcome!"