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marcus
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2011 Apr 21, 3:27am
I am perfectly happy with paying more insurance for more universal access to the system, because I consider health care a universal right.
I agree. One would think that it being a universal right would be self evident.
Interesting that often "pro life" people, even the radical ones are usually against universal healthcare (because that's their overlords position). That's interesting, because on the one hand, they would like to insist that a baby be born, even if to a mother who can not and probably will not soon be able to take care of herself, let alone the child, all in the name of the fetus', or zygote's "rights" and yet they will deny that child health care.
And it's not like many countries haven't already proven that a "medicare for all" system can work well.
RayAmerica
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2011 May 15, 3:36am
Obama grants ObamaCare exemptions to another 204 companies, adding to the already 773 exempted companies. I guess it pays to have friends in high places:
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2011 May 15, 3:40am
"The waivers are temporary and only apply to one provision of the law, which requires health plans to offer at least $750,000 worth of annual medical benefits before leaving patients to fend for themselves."
The waivers expire in 2014 when the state exchanges come up and people can leave their shitty employer lock-in plans and buy better insurance on the open market with their subsidies.
The amount of demagoguing the Republicans are doing on what is entirely a Republican idea is really quite shameful.
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Under Obamacare, for the first time in American history, every citizen would be required, under penalty of law, to purchase federally regulated and approved health insurance. Under the current proposal the fine would be $750 for an individual that refused to comply. This is only the beginning. No doubt if this plan is implemented this fine will increase dramatically in the future.
As the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) wrote back in 1994: “A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action. The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States.”
Is this plan Constitutional? If you think it is, where is it in the Constitution that the power is granted to the federal government to force Americans to purchase anything from the private sector?
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