Whereas someone in the marketplace might be perfectly willing to shoulder additional cost to directly improve one's own health, the public as a whole, under the false impression that health care is free, would not be willing to shoulder the additional cost through drastically increased taxation to spend whatever it takes to improve someone else's health. Clinton's corporatism was alive and well in his State of the Union Address. His aim, as much as trying to minimize tax cuts, is to insidiously direct the behavior of citizens. I bet you couldn't imagine a tax cut which undermined your freedom. Bill Clinton just invented one.
Every fascist regime needs scapegoats.
Financially, these scapegoats are unmarried people without children, nominally affluent families living in areas where the cost of living is exorbidant, and individuals who did not hold the right capital gain for the right amount of time. All of these people are left out of Clinton's insidious targeting schemes. Clinton's post-big goverment is still telling us how to live our lives. It is clogging up the tax code with bureaucratic trivialities. But the era of big nanny government is just beginning.