hehehe, Mr Smith
Our government can make us do anything we want so long as the authority to do it exists....:whiste:
Can your government make you carry a firearm or be financially punished?
Europeans are baffled by soap and water and regular showers, no surprise the Constitution confuses them.
So you're saying that you would be fine if Obamacare required that "You must buy fairly-priced health insurance from a government-sponsored, universal health-care plan?" Is this your point? I didn't think so.
The only reason Obamacare didn't get rid of "greedy companies" is that conservatives insist on a profit-based health-care system for America. Stop talking out of both sides of your mouth.
If anyone should be kicked to the curb, let it be US Big Pharma. They have literally become Joseph Mengele's wet dream.
Anyone who has spent time in northern European countries knows that life is simply better there. They are statistically happier with better work-life balance...and health care. I am not agreeing that Obamacare is the way, not in the slightest, but we do have a lot to learn from our European allies.
Fuck Europe.
Europeans are baffled by soap and water and regular showers, no surprise the Constitution confuses them.
Because tying health insurance to employment is one of the biggest structural problems with the American insurance market. That's a big part of why the individual market is so dysfunctional in so many states. We need LESS connection between health insurance and employment status, not more. Some constructive first steps would have been giving equal tax treatment to all insurance premiums, opening up HSAs to all (making them essentially non-expiring FSAs), mandating most preferred payer pricing (i.e. ending price discrimination, so individual plans and uninsured self-paying customers pay the same as large group plans.), mandating price publication (at least for service providers of a certain minimum size). Also, giving employees the option to take their employer's contribution and shop for their own insurance if they don't like the employer's offerings. (This would have spared us of the completely pointless mandatory contraception hubbub. In fact, this would invalidate the "need" for pretty much all coverage mandates - meaning service mandates, not referring to mandates that people get insurance.)What's wrong with an employer mandate? Hawaii has one and 8% uninsured. That's even though it's a weak mandate that only applies to workers at 20+ hrs which employers take advantage of.
What's wrong with an employer mandate? Hawaii has one and 8% uninsured. That's even though it's a weak mandate that only applies to workers at 20+ hrs which employers take advantage of.
Europeans are baffled by soap and water and regular showers, no surprise the Constitution confuses them.
Scalia is right, I think... IF Government can mandate health coverage they could mandate eating broccoli and isn't that exactly what government ought to be able to do?
Good thing NPR did not try to say anything about transportation then. Those who say the Fed Gov can force you to buy health insurance also must say the Fed Gov can force you to buy a monthly bus pass.
Alas, someone has to pay for that right. I would prefer to keep the "right" to not be forced to pay for someone else's healthcare
I have friends in Canada, the UK, and Norway who have had issues with their contry's healthcare systems. Quite frankly, I'll take our flawed system over theirs any day. And it's our health insurance that's messed up, not our health care.
That's my favorite part of the Constitution."Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"
What about auto insurance? Drivers are forced to buy it, for the very same reason as the health insurance mandate.