Universal health coverage may be a priority for Hillary Clinton, but apparently paying health care bills for campaign workers isn’t. Clinton ran up a $292,000 tab for health insurance premiums for her campaign staff — and their spouses, partners and children — the campaign took a couple of months to get around to paying for it.

Naturally, her staff blames it on the need to verify expenses and the lag between when expenses are paid and when they show as paid. There’s just one problem: rather than paying down their debt with Aetna, for instance, the campaign spent its money on other benefits, leaving the insurance companies unpaid.

And how do insurance companies deal with slow-payment? Why, by raising the costs for other (paying) customers to offset the losses based on the time-value of money.

In other words, Hillary’s campaign is part of the cause of the problem she says she wants to fix. Now that is job security.

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