Comments on: Supreme Court To Hear Florida Health Care Law Challenge

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:10:32 +0000

REGARDING:
“I do not understand the logic of anyone that believes basic health insurance should not be provided to the US citizens for a reasonable fee.”

Why worry about health insurance, go for broke: health care should be provided to the US citizens for reasonable fee — no scratch that — it should be provided for FREE. Nobody should have to pay their doctors or nurses or janitors or the power costs or for the medicines. After all, insurance is just a way to pay for unexpected expenses. If you eliminate the expenses, nobody needs insurance.

I’m not sure why doctors would take such high stress jobs if they weren’t going to be paid, but that’s their problem until there aren’t any more doctors at which point it becomes OUR problem because we made it so affordable it isn’t available.

Sound silly? It should. People don’t often or well work for free. Insurance won’t be cheap if costs are expensive.

One thing is certain: if you could provide health insurance at lower rates than other insurers are and still earn enough to pay the bills, you could get all their business. If you can’t do it, it is possible they aren’t overcharging in the first place and any pretence otherwise is just smoke and mirrors.

David for perfect health care
starting with a cure for aging

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:58:37 +0000

As long as there are 47 million Americans with no health insurance, I think that Congress should have no health insurance paid for by taxes…I do not understand the logic of anyone that believes basic health insurance should not be provided to the US citizens for a reasonable fee. It will cut all costs to everyone because the majority of uninsured people falls onto the insured anyway…when people that are sick go to the ER without insurance the cost is passed onto the the people with insurance…such as overcharging for everything..($10 for a Tylenol,etc.)

By: jp

jp — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:30:53 +0000

To huh:

If welfare recipients have such a hard time of it do yourself, and certainly us tax
payers I might add, a favor and get a job! There are plenty jobs in Alabama
now that the illegals have abandoned their farm jobs to run from the state.
Just ask the Justice Department they know all about it. A little work never hurt
anyone and has a way of bringing pride to most who are willing to try it. I rather
believe, however, that you like most people on government assistance, will not
attempt a job as it may cost you your government check each month and all
the taxpayer funded perks that go with it.

By: SW

SW — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:44:13 +0000

It would be easier and cheaper for the Florida legislature to simply nullify the law and ignore it.

By: SW

SW — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:32:22 +0000

So where does the federal government have the authority, under the US Constitution, to dictate health care for all Americans?

Where, under this same Constitution, does the federal government have authority to force anyone to buy anything?

There are already programs in place, public and private, to aid individuals in getting health care.

By: The DOER

The DOER — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:48:25 +0000

Dear HUH,
Obama and the government have no business making an individual mandate. Healthcare is an option, not a right. It’s the same as buying steak and shrimp. If you want to spend your money on it, do it, but don’t count on mine to buy it for you. I agree with JP. So many welfare recipients have free everything – no copays for doctor visits, prescriptions, free lunches for kids, food stamps, pell grants for college, the list goes on and on. It has to end somewhere. Enough is enough! Less than half of the people in the US are paying into the system, but way more than half are taking out. We need a change alright, and it can’t come soon enough!

By: huh

huh — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:46:48 +0000

We really needed universal healthcare for all , rather than falling behind some of the other top countries in the world. I think Obama did the best he could, but fell short of the real universal healthcare.

Sadly, healthcare in the usa is a for profit business . I think the obama plan is better than nothing.

And as for “jp”
I have worked for the same company for 42yrs. and have a fair income. I know
welfare recepients who live much better than I do”

Well, welfare recipients hardly make it as it is . If you have worked 42 years and others on welfare live better than you, then it sounds like its time for a better job.

By: jp

jp — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:25:56 +0000

I sincerely hope and pray the court does the right thing for the people of this
country. The last thing we need is some government employee a thousand
miles away dictating the fate of sick people. That decision has always be-
longed to the individual, or their family, and the physician. This is as it should
remain.
Under this law, moneys paid in by taxpayers for Medicare for the protection
of the retired productive citizens will be deverded to programs to provide health-
care for nonproductive recipients who have never contributed to the system. I
don’t advocate not taking care of the poor, just not at the expense of those who
paid for this protection for themselves and their loved ones.
Where is the incentive to work when one is paid by the government not too?
I have worked for the same company for 42yrs. and have a fair income. I know
welfare recepients who live much better than I do. They already get better
healthcare than I do thru Medicaid which is free at the expense of taxpayers,
while my medical coverage is limited by copays and deductables and I still
pay a very large part of my monthly premiums.
“Change” via Obamacare is “change” we certainly don’t need