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JohnWxy

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6. Exquisite analysis. Elegant reasoning. I can only say, "I WISH I HAD THOUGHT OF THAT!"

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 06:48 PM

Mar 2012

.. and when the designers of the ACA are shown your OP they will be thinking that too.

As you say, if you choosse to go without medical insurance - IT'S NOT A PENALTY. It's a tax to help fund the program which pays for the medical care of those who can't pay for it themselves (i.e. they don't have medical insurance) - and which will pay for their medical care when they show up at a hospital emergency room needing attention. This establishes, in the statute, that everybody has a choice to make. Critics could not contend anybody was being 'forced' to buy health insurance. Your approach does not allow anybody to pretend they will not need medical care at some time in their lives. It reaffirms that their is no 'free lunch'.

Nobody can pretend that they can go through life without medical care as if there will be no costs involved in choosing to go without medical insurance.

Why didn't the guys who wrote the ACA think of this?!

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Nobody is being FORCED to buy health insurance..what the administration seems to not get about ACA [View all] Bill USA Mar 2012 OP

not so.... mike_c Mar 2012 #1

I was very pissed off when the Public option was thrown overboard. Bill USA Mar 2012 #2

do not dismay, when the supremes strike down the ACA, single payer will be not far away. Bill USA Mar 2012 #4

+ 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 kestrel91316 Mar 2012 #5

actually I am talking about the law that is being reviewed by the court. you are taking a step back Bill USA Mar 2012 #7

Are you claiming that people in the US do not die because they lack access to health care? Fumesucker Mar 2012 #8

Yes, yes and yes sad sally Mar 2012 #13

SCOTUS + Scalia = The Obama Administration now? Back the truck up. freshwest Mar 2012 #3

Exquisite analysis. Elegant reasoning. I can only say, "I WISH I HAD THOUGHT OF THAT!" JohnWxy Mar 2012 #6

Is it your position that no one in the US dies due to a lack of access to health care? n/t Fumesucker Mar 2012 #9

Earth to Fumesucker - YOu might consider the possibility that you are smoking that 'stuff' too much. JohnWxy Mar 2012 #10

The handle is due to my economic situation, sucking fumes, running on empty.. Fumesucker Mar 2012 #16

It's really annoying the way ACA defenders continually collapse insurance with care. EFerrari Mar 2012 #11

what's more annoying is how many DUers can't stay within the scope of a thread. If you want to start Bill USA Mar 2012 #14

Try reading your own thread. nt EFerrari Mar 2012 #15

charity hospitals greymattermom Mar 2012 #12

empty wallet string Nov 2012 #17

people of modest means R subsidized. If things are that tough, sounds like you could get medicaid. Bill USA Nov 2012 #18