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Mr.Pain
(52 posts)Against it. He is simply enforcing an insurance mandate that is the equivalent to taking money out of your pockets and putting it squarely into the hands of an "insurance company". Insurance is not healthcare. Insurance is only a means to help pay for overpriced healthcare and is not directly related to the industry of "healthcare". Obama care is wealth care for your insurance company period. If you want to make "healthcare" affordable, and accessible, address the "healthcare industry", keep the lawfully mandated to "operate at a profit" insurance companies out of it. I am all for socialized medicine, but please for the sake of everyone in this nation, let the states handle it, they already do to some degree. Your doctor is licensed by the state in which he practices, and so is your insurance salesman, because the supreme court has said so over 70 years ago. Neither are considered interstate commerce and therefore the federal government has no authority in the matter. I used to be licensed to sell accident and health insurance in Iowa and had to learn this stuff in order to get my license to sell insurance, a license issued by the state. I would lots rather pay a state healthcare tax than to enrich some undeserving bastard who simply has to exist to make a profit.
Mr.Pain
(52 posts)The supreme court has basically, in their recent decision, resolved to allow congress to require you to by any product that they see fit, and if you fail to do so then they have the right to "tax" you for not buying it. So I just invented butt cheek spreaders, I'm going to washington and lobby congress to pass a law mandating that you, thats right "YOU" must buy butt cheek spreaders, and if you dont they will sick the IRS on you and force you to pay for your poor choice in not buying those butt cheek spreaders you really never needed in the first place.
if you don't believe me yet here's a link that explains it http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/06/28/the-supreme-court-put-limits-on-commerce-clause-but-does-it-matter/