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Hillary Clinton Cashes In by Refusing to Take Position on Pacemaker Tax
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On October 17, 2014 @ 6:11 pm In The Point | 3 Comments
Looks like someone’s been borrowing Obama’s speechwriters. The only thing this Hillary gibberish about the ObamaCare pacemaker tax turned up by Jennifer Rubin is missing is a “Let me be clear” and “Some people say.”
On the tax itself, again I think we have to look to see what are the pluses and the minuses, that are embodied in a decision about either to remove or alter or continue this particular piece of the Affordable Care Act and I’ve in preparation for coming here, I’ve obviously looked at the arguments on both sides for more information and I think we’ll gather more information and that will perhaps give us a better path forward.
The tax has been an issue for quite a while now. Hillary is running for president. Her signature issue used to be health care.
Does she think that anyone really believes that she needs to gather more information before taking a position or that she would be dodging this hard if she didn’t support the pacemaker tax?
But of course there’s another reason that Hillary Clinton is lying about her ObamaCare pacemaker tax position. The only reason that the greedy Clintons do anything.
Money. Money. And more money.
“Sources close to AdvaMed don’t expect Clinton to come out in favor of eliminating the medical device tax, but her appearance before the group is a key indicator the powerful industry is ready to spend money to derail the tax in the near future and build key bipartisan coalitions.” (Bruce Jaspen, “As ObamaCare Batters Device Makers, Lobby Snuggles With Hillary In Chicago,” Forbes, 10/7/14)
We’re talking about a six figure speech. And possibly more of those to come. Reason enough for Hillary to go on playing coy about the pacemaker tax.
“I just think we have to get out of the ideological wars that either we can’t change anything or we have to change everything, and begin to be smart and pragmatic problem solvers again, and I think that goes to your point. I don’t know what the right answer about the tax is.”
We have to be smart and pragmatic. But don’t ask her about her smart and pragmatic answer to the pacemaker tax, because Hillary is smartly and pragmatically signaling that she’s open to being bribed one way or another.
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