If the health care bill passes, you and I will be required to obtain insurance or face an annual penalty of $695. I cannot afford health insurance. I will therefore have to pay the fine
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Much like teaching, you can't actually "force" someone to be a doctor or medical professional. What will be interesting is if they TRY to do so, when push comes to shove, which gives first? Lower quality medical professionals being accepted or lawyers continuing to sue the pants off them. People are accepting of the lower educational quality/standards, but that's not life or death. The question is, will we cut back on lawsuits (once everything else is done, not before) in order to deal with volume, or will suits be wide open, thus keeping medical options limited. It'll be an interesting question for sure.
Understand, I think most reasoning people believe there needs to be change in the healthcare world, there's crazy ass crap that just doesn't need to be embedded deep in the system. Somehow the rational rules of supply and demand and market forces are turned on their head when it comes to medicine
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Eh, don't let it get to you. Republics always devolve into bread-and-circus tyrannies over time. What happened to the USSR in 1991 will happen in time to the USA. Our best strategy is to strengthen ourselves in mind, body, and spirit; avoid contact with the Powers That Be whenever possible; and prepare ourselves to survive the inevitable System Crash.
The more our society becomes a top-down bureaucracy, the faster the Crash will come. In a way, the Powers That Be did us a favor by passing this bill -- they hastened the inevitable.
The Market will provide.
anonymous
March 24 2010, 04:46:51 UTC
Thomas Franks, in "One Nation Under God," argued that The Market had replaced God in America, and was held in a sacred space as the Ultima Thule in America.
In this case, though, The Market will indeed rain manna. Some enterprising insurer will offer the bare-bones minimum health policy for just a bit less than the fine (or tax obligation) will be. They will also offer it as a monthly deductible option. $50 a month may hurt, but it is not impossible.
Of course, with the public option, that $50 could just be deducted from your paycheck automatically, before it even gets int your take-home.
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Instead of year long slogs to come up with the tens of thousands they have to right now.
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Supposedly, Democrats lost their filibuster-proof 60-seat majority earlier this year, but what about the Senate vote?
Pelosi supposedly has the votes, so I should probably just turn C-SPAN off...
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I do. And the answer may surprise you.
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Like I'm going to drive down the street and all the American flags will be replaced with something else.
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The more our society becomes a top-down bureaucracy, the faster the Crash will come. In a way, the Powers That Be did us a favor by passing this bill -- they hastened the inevitable.
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In this case, though, The Market will indeed rain manna.
Some enterprising insurer will offer the bare-bones minimum health policy for just a bit less than the fine (or tax obligation) will be. They will also offer it as a monthly deductible option. $50 a month may hurt, but it is not impossible.
Of course, with the public option, that $50 could just be deducted from your paycheck automatically, before it even gets int your take-home.
Interesting, that.
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