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- If I must buy health insurance, then I would like to know the price. If the hedge fund managers get a hold of the costs, they will skyrocket. The only way out would be to vote a Republican into office along with the Senate which would mean another defeat. Right now, with over 20 percent unemployment and the largest bank heist with the bailout, I just don't see how the average citizen will be able to afford health care, it doesn't make sense and its definitely a socialistic policy along side being fascist in origin.
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- Barack Obama is absolutely an IDIOT!!! He is so hell-bent on the middle-class paying the doctor bills for the jobless and the homeless it makes me sick to death. What does our fearless idiot do? For one, he freezes Government employees' cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) raiss for 2 years. Next, he so blind-sided by his own BS that he doesn't realize that health insurance premiums and taxes rise in price every year. The result: Government workers like myself take an actual cut in take-home pay!!! How is this for his Stimulus? Finally, to force everyone into health insurance plans or fine them -- this is COMMUNISM at its best (or worst)!!! In theory, having health insurance is a no-brainer. However, big Government should lean more towards regulating doctor, hospital and medicine pricing. What this plan is going to do is keep the doctors and all the health professionals driving the BMW's, Jaguars and Porsce's while the average middle-class person won't be able to afford a 10 year old Escort to drive to the doctor for medical attention!!! What I have a hard time comprehending is: 1. On the State level (MD is a good example) -there is a State and multi-state lottery, which brings in lots of revenue. There is also horse racing and (now) slot machines. More money generated for the State. This doesn't include the gazillions being sucked in for cigarette and container tax (Baltimore City). This in addition to the "snack tax" and the extra 1 percent sales tax added a few years ago to the 5 percent already in place. WHERE IS ALL THE MONEY GOING??? The Fed's get theirs, too. This is exactly why the USA should elect "regular" people vs. the already high dollar politicians. Mr. Obama should NEVER be re-elected. Anyone that votes for him in 2012 deserves whatever he does to them....
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- Pahleeeese, Katie, your ratings have already fallen off the chart. Do you know he difference between a billion and a trillion? No, no, a thousand times no.
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- May 2010 Chamber of Commerce article:
Taxes and Fees. The bill imposes $569 billion in new and higher taxes on businesses and individuals. New taxes on pharmaceutical companies (beginning in 2011), medical devices (beginning in 2013), and the health insurance sector (beginning in 2014) will be passed on to every American in the form of higher prices and premiums. Beginning in 2018, a 40% excise tax will be imposed on employer-sponsored health premiums that exceed $10,200 for single coverage and $27,500 for family coverage.
Is this health care law a job killer? It looks that way. This 2700 page disaster in the making can't be effectively tweaked, it must he entirely repealed and replaced by something that does not further damage the US economy and actually reduces health care cost for the majority of Americans - not cause premiums to rise. - Reply to this comment
- Old story about a Roman general who saw that merchants at the roadside charged his troops more money than when their business was done in the town. The general passed a law stating that anyone charging more at the roadside would be arrested.
This roadside marketplace was a convenience for his troops. The merchants had extra expenses when hauling their goods to the roadside. After the law was passed, instead of lowering the prices charged to his troops, the general found that he had inadvertently closed down the roadside market.
Let's see what happens when government sets standards in the insurance industry. Will we see bargains, or will we see a new form of trouble? - Reply to this comment
- just like a bully pay to be proteced or get the @#&* kicked out of you! truethfully i'm tired of paying to have the @#&* kicked out of me. i don't need the goverment to protect me from me any more! who's going to belive that56% of some poll understand the law when it is sill being defined? what did you think no one would catch that part of the news cast?
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- The Governor of Oklahoma just announced that Oklahoma will be the 27th state to sue the federal government over the health care law. How many states will have to rise up against this disastrous law before progressive Democrats decide to listen to the majority of Americans? Those voting for this law didn't listen to the wishes of the majority of Americans then. I certainly hope they wise up soon, and come into the main stream.
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- if the lawmakers and our no birthcertificate oboma really cared about us peasants who will have to decide on health ins or morgage or child support guess which two will win? no brainer
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- There are several approaches to making health care for all affordable.
Take the reverse approach - making coverage illegal...which like anything else makes the price of the product inflate. Since we made it legal for all to obtain health care, the price is not apt to inflate.
Take the anti-trust exemption away for this industry-then you have a totally derregulated industry that no longer guarantees at least 12% profit to itself....that would make a health care more affordable.
Take the competitive bidding for medication suppliers and include foreign suppliers....that would drive the cost of medicine down quite a bit. The old quality misinformation campaign doesn't fly today. Many medications that are converted to over-the-counter ARE manufactured in foreign countries and sold here, today.
Take the preventative testing and screening for allergies, cholesterol, blood sugar, and other things which neglected early can become more costly to treat in the long term.....that would save money and create many jobs in the screening and testing sector of health care.
Take the female wellness screening and early treatment for a variety of reproductive system maladies....that would save money by preventing diseases from becoming untreatable and costly to expend for comfort of terminally ill patients.
Take the possibility that city governments can pursue their constitutional right to enterprise and hire their own pharmacists and open pharmacies to operate as non-profit and remain open to dispense prescription medicines 24 hours a day....that would save money and make services available around the clock, when working people need them.
Surgical centers with specialties can now open their doors in smaller communities became scale of economies apply in their business models....because more people have access to the coverage and create the demand for the services....creating jobs. - Reply to this comment
- if the so called law makers are really thier for the people then they would pass a law on health care cost!(the amount an insurance company can charge) not limit care thier to give or not give
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