Comments on: Supreme Court Justices Ponder Obama Health Care Law

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:12:48 +0000

Sara – Everyone is taxed for medicare if they work. It is not govenment provided if you work and pay taxes.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 05:49:14 +0000

REGARDING:
“What about auto insurance? I’ve never had an accident, but I have to pay it.”

Actually, you don’t. You don’t have to own a car. In fact Gore and others would prefer you DIDN’T own a car. Millions of people don’t own cars or have auto insurance.

Further, the Federal Government isn’t empowered to require you to have auto insurance if you drive an auto; that is a state function.

Giving the federal government unlimited power might be a good thing if the leaders were incorruptible and benevolent. They aren’t.

David considering the danger
of limitless power
over the individual

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:30:17 +0000

Jimbo – What about auto insurance? I’ve never had an accident, but I have to pay it. As for health coverage, it’s great that you live a healthy lifestyle, but the hospitals are full of people who were healthy until an accident or unexpected illness turned everything around. There are few people who can pay out of pocket for hospital stays, intensive care, or surgery. Ditto for a child’s broken arm, asthma attacks, allergies, etc. ALL of us are paying for the uninsured in one way or another. Doctor and hospital payments are higher to factor in non-paying patients. Those costs are passed on to those who pay.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:22:20 +0000

What I’ve had against this law is that it picks and chooses who is forced to buy insurance and who gets it free. It forces some to purchase a product that they may otherwise choose not to buy. I don’t have health insurance. I eat right, I stay in shape, and if I get sick, I go to a doctor that I pay out of my pocket. Last visit cost $98 dollars with the prescription. I had insurance, but I could not afford $700 dollars a month. Thats more than my mortgage.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:33:00 +0000

REGARDING:
“I believe that until all Americans can have basic healthcare paid for by their taxes then the Congress & Senate should forfeit their comprehensive health care insurance. (also, paid by tax payers).”

Until everybody has it, nobody should be allowed to have it.

What’s socialist about that? Oh wait, it’s the very definition of socialism. (Not that I’m opposed to socialism, it retards otherwise powerful countries.)

Of course there is the idea that health care insurance be part of one’s pay for work one does, but that involves the concept of work and pay and we are assuming making laws isn’t actually work just as we’re assuming the duty of government is to heal the sick.

David for healthy government

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:35:46 +0000

I believe that until all Americans can have basic healthcare paid for by their taxes then the Congress & Senate should forfeit their comprehensive health care insurance. (also, paid by tax payers). Also, I have seen first hand how doctors & hospitals push for unnecessary procedures/tests on elderly people when they see that they have extensive medicare/insurance. The Tea Party people are always shouting “Socialism” when it comes to other people of younger generations getting insurance but God forbid that somebody should take anything off of their “Medicare” coverage. Don’t they realize that Medicare is government paid insurance. I think the whole Medicare system should be revamped and divided up so that all Americans can afford basic insurance.

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:51:58 +0000

Any law that is unconstitutional should never have been passed inthe first place. Congress should know better. Nancy Pelosi said we would just have to wait to see what was in this law… now we know and we also know that there is no such thing as transperancy in government.

By: MM

MM — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:50:01 +0000

A good rule of thumb should be that any rule over 1 page should be thrown out. The current Code of Federal Regulations is around 163,000 pages. Do we, the people, need to add 2700 more pages of rules? Much less, rules that control us more.

By: bob hudson

bob hudson — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:53:38 +0000

Do you mean the idiots that wrote a 2700 page bill and never bothered to read it? your right they should be treated like idiots.Never buy a product or pass a bill UNLESS you read about it first.It is called common sense.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:56:27 +0000

Yep, They had too write that way. Cheap skates who expect Medicaid to cover them because they won’t buy insurance expect free-bee care. When you have idiots you have to treat them like idiots.