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A Clarification on ObamaCare and Why We are Fucked.

 
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yeah, who needs doctors to be licensed?

free market health care works great in Somalia!
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More than 200,000 people die every year because of avoidable mistakes in operating rooms, hospitals and doctors' offices.

Oh yea, that licensing is doing wonders!
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More shame....


Thread: Not Qualified For Obamacare's Subsidies? Just Lie -- Govt. To Use 'Honor System' Without Verifying Your Eligibility


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What is the R plan for healthcare????


Oh yeah, now I remember...
We get gouged by the insurance "industry" and 50,000 Americans die every year unnecessarily.


granny
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off your azheimers treatment granny ?

giving the finger to ALL KNOWING FACTS ?

LM@O as obummer care's INCREASED THE COSTS gra_ma
so maybe FIND your reading glasses
and READ.



right back at ya !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!banana2




and OP ? wouldn't it be eist ? not the root verb ?Eisteacht
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Excellent post! That is the solution right there. Corporatism is strangling the life out of our country and lobbying us out of our own liberties.
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and you think removing any sort of restriction or regulation on Corporations is going to stop Corporatism?

hahahaha

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yeah, who needs doctors to be licensed?

free market health care works great in Somalia!
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More than 200,000 people die every year because of avoidable mistakes in operating rooms, hospitals and doctors' offices.

Oh yea, that licensing is doing wonders!
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right, so we should assume it would be better without licensing?

geez.

putin
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This is something like the dreaded and hated (British) poll tax of years ago - you have to pay in order to breathe. Life in a free country should consist of your free choices, but we all just got drafted into another war-based-upon-a-pack-of-lies. Just wanted to wake y'all up.
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Let me tell you, I am absolutely for a National Health Care plan. The USA has the most expensive health care in the world per person, and almost half the population has no access to it

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Here's an idea: restore a free market in healthcare. Get the government out of medical licencing, drug approval, mandates, payments, subsidies, etc.

We will have affordable medicine and services at a much higher quality. The people will be so enriched that charitable care of the seriously downtrodden will be a trivial matter (as it once was).

The crisis is not about "ACCESS" - that is communist propaganda! It's about goverment squashing the free market - destroying supply, attacking schools of medicine that compete with BigPharma, while artificially boosting demand.
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yeah, who needs doctors to be licensed?

free market health care works great in Somalia!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83802


Without Federal Government interference, doctors can and will be licenced (as they were) by private institutions.

Prior to the FDA-enforced "allopathic" monopoly spurred by Rockefeller interests, there were competing schools of medicine:

Homeopathic - use of water harmonics

Eclectic - bringing the body's systems back in balance through natural means.

Allopathic - bleeding, use of large amounts of heavy metals lead, mercury, and arsenic, and later tar coal derived synthetic compounds

Industrial interests leaned on the Government to abolish all schools of medicine besides the AMA (Allopathic) essentially granting it a monopoly.

This is what your beloved cattle ranchers have wrought, (flippant comment about Somalia notwithstanding).

sbus
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It's a head tax on poor working stiffs who aren't party apparatchiks. The wealthy, democrats and politicians' friends are all exempt.

No need to show an income - just be alive and breathing and they'll take whatever you have left.
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You are correct about this bill being one of the worst.

You are wrong about half of the population not having access, it is closer to 15%.

Single payer? medicare? currently Medicare faces an unfunded liability of $38.6 trillion. How, exactly is that any better?

Why is healthcare so expensive? One reason is the AMA setting prices and outlining procedures and treatments; the net result of this is no true competition among providers which is why it was formed by Rockefeller et al.

The idea of national healthcare is a utopian dream that can never be realized.


The free market can and would fix most if not all the problems with the healthcare system if it were allowed to function.

You are also correct about the citizens being screwed...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 45285068


All of Europe and Canada, New Zealand and Australians would disagree.

They have had National healthcare for decades upon decades. It is cheaper on the taxpayers than what the USA has, and EVERYONE has access to it.

Not a utopian dream, its a reality and has been for a long time..

We should have used some of the best examples of these systems and blended them to make the best possible National Health Care the world has seen. But...Nope.. Just a sell out to the Wealthy Private for profit owners.
 Quoting: Sivaro


You are promoting socialism and every socialist system ever implemented has failed because it wishes things were different than they are.

Oh yea, Europe is in wonderful shape economically.

All those countries are broke and going deeper into to debt every day and there is no way out. The politicians know if they try and remove the system the idiots will revolt and remove them.

There is NO WAY a nationalized health care system can be made to work in a fiscally responsible way, despite your wishes.

It is a Utopian dream.

The math doesn't lie, politicians and governments do but math does not.

No matter what you do there will always be more people taking out than are putting in, in all of recorded history this has been true.

When the price of something goes to zero or close to it, the demand for that product increases beyond the capacity of the system to provide.

You can hope and wish all you like but it does not change the math.
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yeah, who needs doctors to be licensed?

free market health care works great in Somalia!
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More than 200,000 people die every year because of avoidable mistakes in operating rooms, hospitals and doctors' offices.

Oh yea, that licensing is doing wonders!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 45285068


right, so we should assume it would be better without licensing?

geez.

putin
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Can you prove it wouldn't be?
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everyone with 1/2 a brain knows that the individual mandate was an idea from the Heritage Foundation (right wing think tank) in the late 80s.

It was included in the Obamacare system as a consolation to the GOP to garner support.

If you recall, during the year long of debates of the US going towards a national health care system, the GOP strictly opposed the single payer option. They repeatedly argued that a single payer option would kill the insurance industry.

So, the compromise was to table the single payer and include the right wing idea of the individual mandate to appease the insurance industry.
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You are correct about this bill being one of the worst.

You are wrong about half of the population not having access, it is closer to 15%.

Single payer? medicare? currently Medicare faces an unfunded liability of $38.6 trillion. How, exactly is that any better?

Why is healthcare so expensive? One reason is the AMA setting prices and outlining procedures and treatments; the net result of this is no true competition among providers which is why it was formed by Rockefeller et al.

The idea of national healthcare is a utopian dream that can never be realized.


The free market can and would fix most if not all the problems with the healthcare system if it were allowed to function.

You are also correct about the citizens being screwed...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 45285068


All of Europe and Canada, New Zealand and Australians would disagree.

They have had National healthcare for decades upon decades. It is cheaper on the taxpayers than what the USA has, and EVERYONE has access to it.

Not a utopian dream, its a reality and has been for a long time..

We should have used some of the best examples of these systems and blended them to make the best possible National Health Care the world has seen. But...Nope.. Just a sell out to the Wealthy Private for profit owners.
 Quoting: Sivaro


You are promoting socialism and every socialist system ever implemented has failed because it wishes things were different than they are.

Oh yea, Europe is in wonderful shape economically.

All those countries are broke and going deeper into to debt every day and there is no way out. The politicians know if they try and remove the system the idiots will revolt and remove them.

There is NO WAY a nationalized health care system can be made to work in a fiscally responsible way, despite your wishes.

It is a Utopian dream.

The math doesn't lie, politicians and governments do but math does not.

No matter what you do there will always be more people taking out than are putting in, in all of recorded history this has been true.

When the price of something goes to zero or close to it, the demand for that product increases beyond the capacity of the system to provide.

You can hope and wish all you like but it does not change the math.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 45285068


I disagree.

Socialistic nations have a better standard of living, and the people live happier healthier lies.

Capitalism is very dynamic, and an amazing system. But without regulations on it, it leads to Oligarchy.

That is what we have today. And if you think American is on the rise you would be ignoring the obvious.

Socialist nations are now doing better than we are, and America is NOT a socialistic nation. It is more akin to Oligarchy, and drifting into Communism or Fascism ( a blend of both actually).

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Without Federal Government interference, doctors can and will be licenced (as they were) by private institutions.


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Like the movie industry's MPAA, right?

That works so well to encourage competition...
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Without Federal Government interference, doctors can and will be licenced (as they were) by private institutions.


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Like the movie industry's MPAA, right?

That works so well to encourage competition...
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I'm starting to think people like you should be kept on a cattle ranch.
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Without Federal Government interference, doctors can and will be licenced (as they were) by private institutions.


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Like the movie industry's MPAA, right?

That works so well to encourage competition...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83802


I'm starting to think people like you should be kept on a cattle ranch.
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well, that's a perfect example of a private industry self regulating without govt interference.

Notice how the largest players control the power and prevent any independent competition.

Why would it be any different in a different industry?
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I can't fucking believe this is really happening. To the United States.
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That's precisely the problem. You're just beginning to pay attention.

sheeplebah
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No that isn't true, many of us have been paying attention all along but unfortunately we have been overwhelmed by the "something for nothing crowd" who votes in high numbers for those who promise them the most free stuff. These very same people either don't work or "work" for this massive government. Either way they vote to keep the gravy train rolling. That gravy train is paid for by us...
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This is why the collapse of our welfare state is INEVITABLE.
The ONLY question is WHEN, and HOW BAD IT WILL GET,
when we hit bottom.


The feds KNOW this and are PREPARING for THEIR SURVIVAL.
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This is something like the dreaded and hated (British) poll tax of years ago - you have to pay in order to breathe. Life in a free country should consist of your free choices, but we all just got drafted into another war-based-upon-a-pack-of-lies. Just wanted to wake y'all up.
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heheeeeeeeeee
being THEY HAVE RULED
that CO2 IS A POLLUTANT etc
we are already paying for EXHALING.
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It's pointless to argue over this
because systems need some regulation
to prevent abuses but it seems that
people's nature is to need to control
others and many let greed guide their
actions.

I'm sure that there's a happy medium
to be found but it seems it always falls
short on human's need to control others
and greed.
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Without Federal Government interference, doctors can and will be licenced (as they were) by private institutions.


 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 43827782

Like the movie industry's MPAA, right?

That works so well to encourage competition...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83802


I'm starting to think people like you should be kept on a cattle ranch.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 43827782


well, that's a perfect example of a private industry self regulating without govt interference.

Notice how the largest players control the power and prevent any independent competition.

Why would it be any different in a different industry?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83802


Unregulated private money power.

Yep, that's what many on GLP think is a good system.

All it creates is Monopolies, Which is the exact opposite of a free market.

The folks on GLP that want this type of system need to figure it out. DO you want a Free market? Or do you want the unlimited ability to hoard money and squelch entrepreneurs?


You see, this is the beauty of Socialism, it allows for the FREE MARKET and reigns in the companies and persons whom get to wealthy..

In a socialistic nation, the Oil industry, the Medical industry, the Military industry, is taken over by the Government. Allowing one or two individuals to have that much power, leads to a destruction of the Nation.


That's Socialism. A system that does not allow Oligarchs to exist, and allows for the free market to exist for small level businesses and Entrepreneurs.

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Expect your property taxes to take a huge hike to accomodate all those illegals and welfare recipients.

They want you to HAVE NOTHING.
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It's pointless to argue over this
because systems need some regulation
to prevent abuses but it seems that
people's nature is to need to control
others and many let greed guide their
actions.

I'm sure that there's a happy medium
to be found but it seems it always falls
short on human's need to control others
and greed.
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My Observation in Life:

50% of Humanity practice greed n control of
others for selfish reasons.

50% of Humanity practice empathy n service to
others for selfless reasons.

*** We are here on Earth to prove to ourselves
and God to which camp we belong. He will take it
from there after our probation is completed.

[link to mormon.org]
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What is the R plan for healthcare????


Oh yeah, now I remember...
We get gouged by the insurance "industry" and 50,000 Americans die every year unnecessarily.


granny
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This is no longer about D's and R's. It hasn't been for a long time. Look at the Bush administration and the passage of the Patriot Act. That should have been our first clue, but we did nothing because they did not come for us, it was to stop terrorism. Remember?

This stage is not so recently set. We have been deceived for quite some time.
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Yes, the stage is set, all the actors are in place and we are just waiting for the director to call: ACTION.
Now, what I want to know is what does the ACT I script call for and when exactly.
I see everything poised for something big and far-reaching, but what is IT.
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everyone with 1/2 a brain knows that the individual mandate was an idea from the Heritage Foundation (right wing think tank) in the late 80s.

It was included in the Obamacare system as a consolation to the GOP to garner support.

If you recall, during the year long of debates of the US going towards a national health care system, the GOP strictly opposed the single payer option. They repeatedly argued that a single payer option would kill the insurance industry.

So, the compromise was to table the single payer and include the right wing idea of the individual mandate to appease the insurance industry.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83802


...........and the other half of your arse NEGLECTS TO MENTION
hiLLARY CARE
pelosi dodd tedd the keNNeddy rUMney of assachusettes etc CARE.

there was NO compromise AND THAT'S why they had to sign it into a law.
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everyone with 1/2 a brain knows that the individual mandate was an idea from the Heritage Foundation (right wing think tank) in the late 80s.

It was included in the Obamacare system as a consolation to the GOP to garner support.

If you recall, during the year long of debates of the US going towards a national health care system, the GOP strictly opposed the single payer option. They repeatedly argued that a single payer option would kill the insurance industry.
So, the compromise was to table the single payer and include the right wing idea of the individual mandate to appease the insurance industry.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83802




Private insurance companies made the USA the most expensive and least accessible system in the world.


APPEASING the failed policies and persons that got us into this mess to began with was a SELL OUT.
The US should have instead jailed all of the owners of the private health care plans and broken up their predatory businesses.

The Nations health care sucked with PRIVATE health care systems, and now will permanently suck, and we all will be forced to pay for the suckage.

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Yet if one wants to free themselves from the system, they are not charged. It is only those that accept the system as is blindly then complain that it matters to, not those that turn their backs on the same governments and institutions that turned their backs on them.
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What is the R plan for healthcare????


Oh yeah, now I remember...
We get gouged by the insurance "industry" and 50,000 Americans die every year unnecessarily.


granny
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As opposed to paying a fine and no insurance coverage?
 Quoting: ar-15 nut


Abortion kills more than 50,000 a year...
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“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe . . . Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.”

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You are correct about this bill being one of the worst.

You are wrong about half of the population not having access, it is closer to 15%.

Single payer? medicare? currently Medicare faces an unfunded liability of $38.6 trillion. How, exactly is that any better?

Why is healthcare so expensive? One reason is the AMA setting prices and outlining procedures and treatments; the net result of this is no true competition among providers which is why it was formed by Rockefeller et al.

The idea of national healthcare is a utopian dream that can never be realized.


The free market can and would fix most if not all the problems with the healthcare system if it were allowed to function.

You are also correct about the citizens being screwed...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 45285068


All of Europe and Canada, New Zealand and Australians would disagree.

They have had National healthcare for decades upon decades. It is cheaper on the taxpayers than what the USA has, and EVERYONE has access to it.

Not a utopian dream, its a reality and has been for a long time..

We should have used some of the best examples of these systems and blended them to make the best possible National Health Care the world has seen. But...Nope.. Just a sell out to the Wealthy Private for profit owners.
 Quoting: Sivaro


You are promoting socialism and every socialist system ever implemented has failed because it wishes things were different than they are.

Oh yea, Europe is in wonderful shape economically.

All those countries are broke and going deeper into to debt every day and there is no way out. The politicians know if they try and remove the system the idiots will revolt and remove them.

There is NO WAY a nationalized health care system can be made to work in a fiscally responsible way, despite your wishes.

It is a Utopian dream.

The math doesn't lie, politicians and governments do but math does not.

No matter what you do there will always be more people taking out than are putting in, in all of recorded history this has been true.

When the price of something goes to zero or close to it, the demand for that product increases beyond the capacity of the system to provide.

You can hope and wish all you like but it does not change the math.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 45285068


I disagree.

Socialistic nations have a better standard of living, and the people live happier healthier lies.

Capitalism is very dynamic, and an amazing system. But without regulations on it, it leads to Oligarchy.

That is what we have today. And if you think American is on the rise you would be ignoring the obvious.

Socialist nations are now doing better than we are, and America is NOT a socialistic nation. It is more akin to Oligarchy, and drifting into Communism or Fascism ( a blend of both actually).
 Quoting: Sivaro


"Capitalism is very dynamic, and an amazing system. But without regulations on it, it leads to Oligarchy."

^^^^WRONG^^^^

This is why our government, capitalism and America in general is failing.

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams

If you say that absence of regulations/law is the cause, then compare the laws we have today to the laws we had that governed men 200 or even 100 years ago. They are now nearly innumerable.

It is not the lack of lack of law or regulation that is the cancer eating our country alive...it is the depravity of the people to obey the God that blessed them with their country in the first place. If man obeyed God's Word and lived in that reverence daily, then there would be no need to enact new laws to confine the wickedness of man, because man would be seeking to both do and live those things pleasing to God. By doing that, simple laws and regulations would be easily abided by because man's aspirations to live godly and just would exceed law.

It is not the lack of regulations or laws that are the cause of society in moral decay.

It is the wickedness of the heart lost in our current ocean of moral ambiguity.
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-Stonewall Jackson

"The Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to a person who is not." - Charles Spurgeon

“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe . . . Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.”

“If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.” -Daniel Webster
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...

Like the movie industry's MPAA, right?

That works so well to encourage competition...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83802


I'm starting to think people like you should be kept on a cattle ranch.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 43827782


well, that's a perfect example of a private industry self regulating without govt interference.

Notice how the largest players control the power and prevent any independent competition.

Why would it be any different in a different industry?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83802


Unregulated private money power.

Yep, that's what many on GLP think is a good system.

All it creates is Monopolies, Which is the exact opposite of a free market.

The folks on GLP that want this type of system need to figure it out. DO you want a Free market? Or do you want the unlimited ability to hoard money and squelch entrepreneurs?


You see, this is the beauty of Socialism, it allows for the FREE MARKET and reigns in the companies and persons whom get to wealthy..

In a socialistic nation, the Oil industry, the Medical industry, the Military industry, is taken over by the Government. Allowing one or two individuals to have that much power, leads to a destruction of the Nation.


That's Socialism. A system that does not allow Oligarchs to exist, and allows for the free market to exist for small level businesses and Entrepreneurs.

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-Stonewall Jackson

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Re: A Clarification on ObamaCare and Why We are Fucked.
Your country is totally unrecognizable from what it was just a few decades ago...what a shame.

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Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords. -Benjamin Franklin
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Re: A Clarification on ObamaCare and Why We are Fucked.
everyone with 1/2 a brain knows that the individual mandate was an idea from the Heritage Foundation (right wing think tank) in the late 80s.

It was included in the Obamacare system as a consolation to the GOP to garner support.

If you recall, during the year long of debates of the US going towards a national health care system, the GOP strictly opposed the single payer option. They repeatedly argued that a single payer option would kill the insurance industry.
So, the compromise was to table the single payer and include the right wing idea of the individual mandate to appease the insurance industry.
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Private insurance companies made the USA the most expensive and least accessible system in the world.


APPEASING the failed policies and persons that got us into this mess to began with was a SELL OUT.
The US should have instead jailed all of the owners of the private health care plans and broken up their predatory businesses.


Many years ago I worked for a pediatrician. I was the only employee and did everything.
It was a strictly cash business (5 dollars, I think) so no paperwork was involved.
My last trip to the doc was $25 co-pay plus insurance, and there were 5 employees.

The Nations health care sucked with PRIVATE health care systems, and now will permanently suck, and we all will be forced to pay for the suckage.
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