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2010-03-23 Home Front: Politix

Congress Votes to Socialize Health Care in United States

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Posted by Fred 2010-03-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Well, if you can't even force healthy young men to join the U.S. military then how in the hell can you force healthy Americans to carry health insurance...or pay for those who abuse drugs, alcohol, tabacco and food? Oh how I hate 219 clowns in congress right now.

Posted by Broadhead6 2010-03-23 01:07|| 2010-03-23 01:07|| Front Page Top

#2 It doesn't and it was never intended to.

It is designed to fail. Healthy young people will elect to pay the $700 fine rather than the 7,000+ in premiums - until they get something serious then they will want on the Insurance bandwagon and cannot be refused. This will drive premiums through the roof for those of us who pay (or drive 'evil' insurance companies right out of business) until the only affordable insurance is the Government one. Subsidized by the Taxpayer - either via a direct tax or an indirect tax (via business taxes).

And of course once we're all on the government teat - they *own* us lock stock and barrel. You don't dare vote non-democrat - you will lose your health insurance.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-03-23 01:20|| 2010-03-23 01:20|| Front Page Top

#3 I just spoke to a fellow at Cat Tractor in Peoria last evening. There is an ominous cloud hanging over the entire workforce as a result of the passage of this bill.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-23 06:00|| 2010-03-23 06:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Besoeker, would it be fair to say that this was a jobs bill for China?

Who is pulling the strings here?

Posted by no mo uro 2010-03-23 06:19|| 2010-03-23 06:19|| Front Page Top

#5 I really don't think Barry and his cadre are thinking that strategically or internationally no mo uro. I believe it has more to do with a graduate level community organizer obtaining benefits and entitlements for his Chicago ward bosses constituents and locking in their endorsement. It's what he knows, it's worked in the past for him and he's sticking with it. A simple Harold Washington, sideside Chicago politics and payoffs programme of extorting tax dollars at the now, national level. Everything else is diversionary background noise.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-23 08:28|| 2010-03-23 08:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Everything else is diversionary background noise. Unless & until the roof caves in when the US finds it can't borrow to finance the national debt, &/or the banking system caves in, &/or unemployment massively increases, the sort of thing you can't shuck & jive past.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-03-23 16:23|| 2010-03-23 16:23|| Front Page Top

#7 And as I love to remind people, we would of had National Health Care in the '70s except for the Dimocrats desire to focus on Watergate

Posted by Cheaderhead 2010-03-23 16:59|| 2010-03-23 16:59|| Front Page Top

#8 "Broken Glass Patriots" - I will crawl over broken glass to vote these assholes out of power

Posted by Frank G 2010-03-23 19:48|| 2010-03-23 19:48|| Front Page Top

#9 In Massachusetts, I am carrying health insurance for my family, pay State taxes in order to pay for Romneycare and now this B.S. Sometimes, I wonder what the hell I am doing working in the first place.
Thanks to the Big "O" and his followers, I see us also having to eventually pay for the 12 million illegals that may get legalized under the soon to be unveiled "Immigration Reform Act" if this gets passed the same way. November won't be here soon enough, to throw these bums out.

Posted by Gleang Black5880 2010-03-23 20:45|| 2010-03-23 20:45|| Front Page Top

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