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In a blog posting on the White House's Web site, health spokeswoman/adviser Stephanie Cutter responded to today's federal court ruling that declined to dismiss Virginia's lawsuit against the health-care law.
"Having failed in the legislative arena, opponents of reform are now turning to the courts in an attempt to overturn the work of the democratically elected branches of government," Cutter said. "This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act -- constitutional challenges were brought to all three of these monumental pieces of legislation, and all of those challenges failed. So too will the challenge to health reform."
Cutter stressed that the court did not rule on the constitutionality of the health-care law. "Today's decision merely said that the Virginia Attorney General has standing to challenge the lawsuit -- which means that the court has jurisdiction to hear further arguments. The federal government believes this procedural ruling is in error and conflicts with long-standing and well-established legal precedents -- the types of precedents that, in the words of Chief Justice Roberts, are designed to preserve the "judiciary's proper role in our system of government" and to ensure that our courts do not become forums for political debates."
Cutter, a veteran Democrat communications strategist who helped guide Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court confirmation, was named assistant to the president for special projects in May 2010.
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All the "Activist" Repub Deciders sitting on the benches at every level are the result of the Rovian tactics! It will take some time to replace them all with real Jurists!
And "real Jurists" would ALL be lefty liberals that Keith and Rachel would love??
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome to the world of the informed, Joe! Glad you understand. Justice for ALL is not a bad thing!
Actually Joe, President Obama would be replacing them with people who are more centrist and actually have some idea what the Constitution says and means instead of the right wing corporate fascists that are sitting on the benches now in too many places and slowly but surely destroying America from their positions. The idea is to replace these politcally selected hacks with individuals that are actually competent and able to give a proper balance to the duties that they are supposed to perform, unlike the right wing cabal on the SCOTUS presently. The Right wingers, Roberts, Alito, Kennedy, Scalia and Thomas have been slowly but surely giving the already too powerful corporations more and more power and destroying our Nation as they do so.
Remember, the Repubs only serve those that are 'too rich to fail' instead of supporting the needs of their constituencies.
B.Honest. Well said.
EXTREMELY Well Said and Honest to boot!
Is anyone surprised that the Administration disagrees?
I seriously question whether the Federal government can require citizens to purchase something from a private company as a condition of being alive.
What's next, requiring that all licensed drivers purchase a vehicle from GM?
You are required to have car insurance, home insurance, life insurance, why not health insurance? And you will always need to see a doctor for something, like toothache, eyeglasses, physicals, what is your point? With Health Insurance you pay for it, we don't. Elementary Roy Wilson!
I have never heard of anyone being required to purchase life, homeowner's, or renter's insurance before. The only car insurance you're required to buy is liability, which is to protect someone else from you're reckless actions. Secondly, if you don't own a car, you don't have to but insurance, and third, it is required by the states, not the Federal government.
Wanda-1311889
There are many people that do not have homeowners insurance, there are actually very few renter's that have renter's insurance, life insurance is prudent to have but you are not required to have it by anyone. There are many people in this world that pay cash for the medical as they are seldom sick and never get close to the deductible. I do have insurance through my employer and in the last five year not once have I come close to meeting my detectable - and I am 52. Under this debacle I will have less coverage at a higher cost that is just plain wrong. Why should I be punished double, I already pay more to go to the doctor just because I have insurance - this is done to help offset the freeloaders. Now I will have to pay more - will not be allowed to go to the doctor and pay cash - since that is cheaper by about half rather than show my insurance card- and I will have less coverage much much much less. On what planet it that right. And do not talk to me about fair - life is not fair people just need to get use to that fact.
"Actually Joe, President Obama would be replacing them with people who are more centrist"
Barry's appointees would only appear "centrist" to people on the far left whose eyesight is limited and cannot see anywhere beyond people in the center-left which they would consider right wing extremists (like the "blue dogs").
Joe in Albany,
Your paranoia is treatable. And quite frankly, exhausting to the rest of us. How does one 'appear' to be centrist?
Is it all part of the Master Muslim plot to supplant non Citizen Obama in a Hawaii Birth announcement almost 50 years ago and then keep him educated and get him to enter politics and just all of the 'dumb' luck that white men have encountered their entire lives (we like to refer to it as the Peter Principle).
The lengths you people will go to in opposition and screech mode about this conspiracy or another is so absurd - I would actually be laughing if you weren't eligible to vote and hadn't already trashed my country from the last moron you wanted to have a beer with. Calm down and try and be REASONABLE. It is possible that the men in the white jackets will come for you; but sadly, it is highly unlikely.
Certainly a different tune than last week re the AZ ruling which the WH celebrated as a great victory. But, now this, it's nothing. This is a whole different game than Soc Sec, voting Rights and Civil Rights acts. Don't recall that any of those three required us to go out and buy something.
dirt,
Social Security requires you to pay into it for you to get any benefits from it. Both the Voting rights and Civil rights were bought and paid for with people's lives.
Not only did you not have to go out and buy anything for those acts but they also weren't passed by a liberal trick in a most undemocratic way.
Dirt,
The problem is that if you arrive at the hospital with a serious injury we have to legally help you. I of course would gladly let you die if you did not have insurance and could not prove you could pay for services but, since that's against the law and as and most people are compassionate we require that you have insurance so those that can pay for services are not required to pay excessive rates to pay for those that choose not to have insurance. (Seriously I am astonished that conservatives don't understand personal responsibility)
and Informed02 I totally hate it when the majority of our elected officals vote for something and then it happens. How dare Democracy work that way, it's a freaking Tyranny!. And if you are just all pissed about Reconciliation see.....Regan Tax Cut's.
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2009/08/the-history-of-the-reconciliation-process/
Let's just think about what happens if the individual mandate get's repealed. First off most of the bill does not get repealed thus pre-existing coverage stays in, staying on your parents coverage stays in, cuts to mediacare advantage stay in, etc. So really what have you done? You have increased the budget defict even more because insurance policies will be more and we will continue to have a large portion of the population without insurance. Nicly Done, and I have to say totally consistent with the modern GOP!!
Anyway I hope it stays in becuase I really want to see some idiot run on the platform of repealing the Healthcare overhaul. What do you think that slogan will be:
"Bring Back Pre-Exising Conditions, because childhood cancer is just to expense to cure"
Theo-2112538
Most of the provisions will probably stand a court test, but the mandate to purchase insurance from a private company is troubling. What else can the government require us to purchase from private companies as a condition of being alive?
Some of the provisions of the bill are no doubt beneficial, like eliminating the pre-existing exclusion language, but that could have been done with a simple 1 page bill. Unfortunately, the 2000+ page bill included way too many provisions that have nothing to do with improving health care, and the bill was written entirely by partisan Democrats in the dark of night, and passed using parliamentary tricks, while lying about the cost. The true cost of this bill will be several $Trillion over 10 years.
By the way. When does the Administration start cutting the $500 Billion in "waste" from Medicare, and how are they going to use that $500 Billion twice - once to pay for HCR and also to extend the viability of Medicare, which is now saddled with almost $90 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities?
This Country is headed full speed toward a financial collapse because of debt and entitlements, which now includes HCR and everybody is just oblivious. Unlike Greece, there is no European Union to bail us out. The "Debt Commission Report", due on December 1 (conveniently a few weeks AFTER the Mid-term elections) should be a wake up call.
Frankly, I don't like the way our Court System has become political and politicized. Our founding fathers meant for the three branches of government to check and balance one another. If the Amercian people cannot rely on the Executive Branch and Legislative branches to do so in a mature and rational manner we certainly should expect our Judicial branch to do so. Too many appointments have been made in the past based on how closely a nominee held those political philosophies of one party or the other rather than simply on the nominee's understanding of constitutional law and their neutrality as it relates to the political agenda of one party or the other.
There seems to be very little neutality today which is creating even more division between the people. There is no longer neutrality (or objectivity) in many aspects of our lives as Americans including how the news is reported, those judgements passed down on well known people making statements (for political correctness) and in our judical system. We expect our Executive and Legislative branches to pursue agendas based on their personal political philosophies, but when that same bias enters into those decisions made by the highest court in the land we have a real problem folks.
In November and in 2012 the Democrats should actually win by a landslide. Recognize I said ‘should’, and not because they are more organized or aggressive, they are not, and not because they are perfect, they surely are not, and not because they have better overt and covert support, they do not, but rather because they are really the only entity focused on the interests of the majority, as the Republicans are literally totally focused on the interests of the very few, their strong supporters, and on their political ambitions above all else and on just conning the majority. If the majority simply avoid being conned, then the Democrats ‘should’ win. If not, then we likely will return to more of the same that got us the problems.
I agree, but I believe it has became standard practice to cater to the wealthy in this country, greed seems to have won out over common sense and what is right or ethical or best for the country as a whole, it seems completely ridiculous that the Republicans could even think they have an opportunity to pick up seats in November, they have done nothing but obstruct and water down legislation for the wealthy, using the same talking points that they have used for 10 years, none of which they have ever came through on, they are claiming big victories come November, most people don't pay much attention to politics in this country which is one of the reasons it has became such a joke, I fear the day when this could have been resolved is long since passed, the wealthy are too entrenched in our political system to ever allow meaningful change, the best days of the United States of America are past for most.
If the dems were focused on the interests of the majority, then why did health care pass? Why did the (debt) Stimulus bill pass? I'm pretty sure I remember the vast majority of Americans being AGAINST these bills, yet Congress labors under the delusion that they know what we think better than we do. You want to know why both sides of our political system cater to the wealthy today? It's because they ARE the wealthy! No one in DC has the foggiest idea what it's like to be a middle class American trying to make ends meet. As long as that situation continues unchecked the middle class will continue to suffer at the hands of our elected representatives regardless of whether they are republican or democrat.
Suzy, Shhh. You will be labled a racist for thinking intelligently.
Suzy and Bob are CLEARLY victims of the vacuum polls. Ginned up fear from Grassley and every right wing crazy in front of a microphone STILL didn't represent MORE than those who voted for Barack Obama. Most objecting to the final product feel it didn't go far enough or do enough to control costs by offering a REAL public option. But do continue with your wishful thinking. It's entertaining, if unsubstantive and inaccurate.
Doesn't this still prove my point- that our elected officials aren't listening to the people who elected them? Whether you object because it goes too far or because it doesn't go far enough, it's still an objection that Congress ignored.
Justice Roberts apparently forgot what he said when he and his friends expanded Citizens United to make corporations the equal of people.
The only reason VA and the other states are making the challenge is for political reasons--the democrats passed it, Pres Obama signed it, therefore, it is anti-American. If the republicans had passed this bill when they were the majority, none of these challenges would have been made.
Another change that should be made is "electing" judges. Most voters do not have a clue about who the names listed are least of all their judicial record. Judges should not have to raise money for their re-election campaign. They should be appointed and remain in the job unless they are proven guilty of some wrong doing, unethical behavior or otherwise inappropriate action.
I wonder, if the court rules you can't force people to buy insurance, will hospitals sue to be allowed not to admit the unisured? Just wonderin'.
The republicans wouldn't have passed it with behind door deals and tricks.
Man your going to have to change your moniker, listening to Fox and repeating their lies and crap doesn't make you informed, it just makes you look stupid.
Mo - you are the stupid one. Obviously, you do not read or listen. Among others, does the name Ben Nelson ring any bells in that tiny brain of yours?
It is interesting how some complain about how things are shoved through the Congress without the minority having much to say. Payback is a B**ch isn't it? Do unto others as they did unto you may apply and now those chickens hatched a decade or so ago have come back to roost. The Congress of Gingrich and Hastert pulled some shenanigans but those who participated in said shenanigans are now complaining about the same things being done to them. I heard that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Perhaps the HC law should be amended to say that no one needs to buy insurance but they are totally responsible for any and all of their healthcare costs and those of dependants. Those who choose to do so may buy insurance through a pool administered by the government guaranteeing affordable premiums and full coverage to those who opt for this option and then there are the insurance companies who can charge whatever they want and those who opt for paying for insurance in the private sector can pay whatever is charged and receive whatever services are offered for the money spent. If that isn't free choice I don't know what is. Tea partiers should opt for no insurance at all or for that offered by private corporations. Of course for those who opt out and little Johnny gets sick they may lose their house, everything in it and their car too in order to pay for Johnny's medical treatment. Unless they opt out of the treatment because they can't afford it they would need to have a savings account or something for that purpose.
Payback? WOW!!
"Payback is a B**ch isn't it?"
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm..sounds like what a guy name Rev. Wright would say I believe.....
"Do unto others as they did unto you may apply and now those chickens hatched a decade or so ago have come back to roost."
YES, YES, YES!!!! I don't want to pay for that HC crap. I have my own insurance and I'm happy with it. Why in the heck should I pay for others!!!
"Perhaps the HC law should be amended to say that no one needs to buy insurance but they are totally responsible for any and all of their healthcare costs and those of dependants."
If they can't get any Insurance, maybe you shouldn't get any either. What makes you better than them or vice versa?
"Tea partiers should opt for no insurance at all or for that offered by private corporations."
If you think democrats do not cater to the corporations and the rich, you are deluded.
All you have to do is look at Obamas top ten campaign contributors, and all the money, not just cherry picking certain categories.
They are only democrats and republicans during an election, after that, they are all the same, greedy powerhungry poloticians only out for themselves and whoever will give them the most money.
2008 Democrat Top Ten Contributers:
1. Goldman Sachs: $441, 851
Hillary Clinton: $131, 850
Barack Obama: $310,001
2. DLA Piper: $318, 627
Hillary Clinton: $284, 620
Barack Obama: $34, 007
3. Citigroup, Inc.: $312, 261
Hillary Clinton: $18, 145
Barack Obama: 154, 116
4. Lehman Brothers: $303, 510
Hillary Clinton: $83, 650
Barack Obama: 219, 860
5. JP Morgan Chase & Co. : $243, 555
Hillary Clinton: $89,100
Barack Obama: $154, 455
6. Skadden, Arps et al: $242, 716
Hillary Clinton: $135, 060
Barack Obama: $107, 656
7. Morgan Stanley: $215, 035
Hillary Clinton: $127, 700
Barack Obama: $87,335
8. Kirkland & Ellis: $213, 301
Hillary Clinton: $110, 200
Barack Obama: $103, 101
9. Time Warner: $210, 971
Hillary Clinton: $103, 220
Barack Obama: $107, 751
10. Viacom Inc.: $173, 599
Hillary Clinton: $93, 200
Barack Obama: $80, 399
Now scomata add the teabagging republicans to the list. You'll see Hillary and Barack can't hold a candle to the teabagging republicans donation from these financial firms.
Not true Mo, Why lie?
OBAMA was the top recipient of BP dollars in 2008, by a lot. Freddie and Fannie went democrat by a huge margin.
So, since you decided to get on here and lie like a typical partisan hack here you go:
Top ten McCain contributers
1. Blank Rome, LLP: $188,200
2. Merrill Lynch: $177,475
3. Citigroup, Inc.: $161,000
4. Greenberg Traurig, LLP: $150,987
5. Goldman Sachs: $104,950
6. IDT Corp.: $84,850
7. Univision Communications: $82,000
8. Credit Suisse Group: $81,700
9. Bank of New York Mellon: $79,300
10. Bridgewater Assoc.: $74,400
As you can see, not even in the same leugue.
ScoMata,
all that proves about McCain is that he couldn't get anyone to hitch to his horse drawn buggy. That bit on Saturday Night Live about the Home Shopping Network was hysterical. People like to support a winner - not the loser McCain obviously proved to be with that vice presidential pick. Just sayin'.
Typical Democrat misstatement's (lies) The Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Acts were only passed because of overwhelming Republican support. remember that the whole south was solid democratic and voted against these measures. Sen. Byrd (WVA) was a KKK member and filibustered along with other democrats. The dems have been using courts to get their way for years. What hypocrites!!!
Scomata1964 - you left out the largest contributor to Obama's campaign BP . anyone ever hear of them. Them there were the law firms that contributed hundred of millions. Check it out.
I wanted to compare apples to apples, all the behind the scenes stuff is really hard to quantify.
I posted McCains top ten apples to apples and it is striking how much less his top ten adds up to.
What a load of crap. It should have read. having failed to listen to the American People and not pass the totally unlawful health care act the Virgina people have com to the rescue of the American people and will try to save us from the lunatics and criminals and liars in the Democrat controlled House and Senate and free us from the criminal law passed be ignoring the will of the people. hurray for Virgina and pray to the wisdom of the courts who know it is unconstitutional to force an American to buy a product and especially one sold by or controlled by the Federal Govt. Let us all pray that some day we have a congress that actually does the will of the people. We probably all want health care reform but not this pile of garbage.
hey B. Honest So by your liberal mentality you say the people that built America are the ones that are destroying her and the ones that feed off her and hate her are the ones that are doing her good. America for your information was built on the backs of the hard working, TAX Paying citizens and made possible by the inventors and the people willing to risk it all on some business venture. It built our railroads, roads, airports ,hospitals,museums', churches,schools, and everything else you see around you. Now the Govt has robbed us , lied to us and gave the banks our money, made deals with wall street to get finance for their re-elections like Obama and GE and have brought us poverty, and misery and has not created a single job that is not paid for by the tax payer who Obama love to rob. So id I had to choose between the people that built the nation the hard working taxpaying law abiding citizens or the fat cat elite liberals of Hollywood and lawyer land New York and the lunatic Liberals who are continuously corrupting America and stealing every dime we make I choose business and the American people. It is clear you do not. Liberals like Obama and Pelosi and Reid are a cancer destroying America.
Wade,
Your conservative mentality apparently blinds you to the FACT that the Banks GAMBLED OUR MONEY AWAY, and that BUSH is the one that gave them the bailout with no strings attached, not even about their million dollar bonuses. Yes, America was built BY hard working, tax paying Citizens and businesses which were then bought up by leveraged buyouts so that the corporations could take the money and run, leaving businesses to fail because of the leveraged debt that, since the businesses had to pay all their profits to the Corps, they were unable to pay back the buyout. Many good, solid old businesses have been destroyed by them or hollowed out to pale shells of their past grandeur. The Corporations are the ones that have been robbing us blind. They are the ones moving jobs offshore just to pad their bottom lines, which were NOT hurting before, they were just greedy for MORE Profits. The Government is Not the ones that create jobs, the businesses and corporations are the ones that do that yet they are refusing to hire, and small businesses have not been getting credit because the banks are withholding the money as they are making more profits investing in US Govt. Bonds. The banks borrowed that money at extremely low interest, which was SUPPOSED to go towards Loans but instead, they withhold the loans and stall the economy all the while making record profits illicitly from the money that should have been loaned.
The people that are lunatics are the Repubs who went and actively worked to destroy our economy and banking/financial system so they could make profits on the gaming, which they did. The Repubs are trying to blame the Dems and President Obama for breaking the bank which they KNOW that they did themselves on their own dime. The Repubs and their corporate bosses are the ones trying to kill America so they can pick the meat off the carcass using the then broke citizens as virtual slave labor since the people would not have any choice but to work at slave wages because it would be the only game in town. They came very very close to it with the Bush/Cheney Admin and then dropped the tangled mess into Pres. Obama's lap. He has been working very hard, and rather successfully, to fix the problems left to him but the Repubs want things to stay broken for their political agenda so they vote against anything that might possibly have a chance at turning the economy around. The only worse lunatics are the people that are following them blindly and LETTING them rob us all blind. The rest of us are onto their game and are saying No More, no more corporate fascism, no more deregulation, no more rampant pollution of our ecology, no more letting the crooks of the Repub party destroy us, we are going to build America back up instead of allowing the Repubs to tear it down.
Democrats pay taxes too, and we have gotten fed up with being lied to, conned and ripped off and are working hard to actually get America moving again. The people who COULD be hiring right now are just making excuses, parroted by the Repubs, about uncertainty of the market and taxes while they sit on literally hundreds of trillions of dollars that could have America fully employed tomorrow and they would not feel any pain at all because they are making record profits. They are profiting off from OUR hard labor, the labor of ALL Americans that are not the richest 5%. The Repubs are the cancer on America and they are ACTIVELY working to destroy us as a democracy for nothing more than pure greed. They are the ones stealing the food from the tables of the working people and yet THEY never have to worry about going hungry: They are too rich to fail yet they are making sure that the rest of us fail so that they have a nearly free labor market similar to third world nations.
The Repubs are the ones that have caused the poverty and misery and you have the gall to pin the blame on President Obama?? You are crazier than I would have thought possible but I find the definition of crazy expanding daily from the things that the right wingers post on here daily. You people are sick if you are able to let the corporations destroy us. They USED to actually help America, they USED to be economic powerhouses that helped grow the economy, back when there were actually Republicans who had the good of Everybody in mind. But now, now we have a party that has been bought out for decades, beholden only to the almighty dollar and their corporate fascism. You sicken me that actual Americans can believe their lies, that or you are working directly for them and so have a finger into that money pie that they are keeping from everyone else.
President Obama is the one that is actually Saving America from certain destruction. The Repubs are the ones trying to make sure that he fails. The Public is the one that is being hurt badly by the Repubs with their blocking as much legislation as they possibly can that could actually be helping ALL Americans. Yet, because of the corporate media, they are being effective in their attempt to pin the blame on the man that is actually working for the future of ALL of us, not just the 5% that are too rich to fail.
That is the main problem, is that while we have Tens of Millions of people out of work and struggling, hundreds of millions of people living basically paycheck to paycheck, and the people that COULD be helping solve the problems are just saying NO. Those saying NO are the couple thousand people in the US that are just plain Too Rich To Fail and THEY, not the Dems, are the problem.
Bush gave Obama final approval on his bailout because he did not want to dump something like this in his successors lap without his approval. This is a documented fact.
You need to abandon your bigoted way of thinking and realise that both parties are not really very different at all, and that class envy is pathetic.
As to your knowledge of the corporate world and how it functions, you have no clue.
I would like to know why MSNBC didn't report that Obama took credit for troop withdraw? I watched it and I couldn't believe that came out of his mouth. Another lie.........................
Comparing the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act to this so-called healthcare reform is laughable. Talk about "talking points." The same "talking points" is the only thing that comes out of the White House. What was actually reformed by the way? I started reading part of the bill online and stopped because I didn't see any reform. Maybe the reform is behind all of the bloat, I just gave up too soon. But come on, seriously, it's like comparing the a law against jaywalking with the Civil Rights Act.
Somebody on Capitol Hill must already have a deal worked out with makers of "Grandma's Pain Pills." Is that the reason for the objections? Maxine, Charlie, are you there
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Republicans have sold us out to Corporations and Big Business, and we have to stop them from planting us in some matrix to be slaves to their whims!! B Honest is absolutely right. They are the most dangerous pox this country has ever produced in my generation!!
All Republicans are crazy, and self destructive, so they have no problem with destroying us!
Are you proud to be a bigot? Sure sounds like it.
Unfortunately anyone who believes either party is considering what's good for the people do not understand how government has been taking the middle class out of the picture, and thus have almost come close to succeeding with the playing out of the housing debacle. Now we have heathcare reform, more taxes, and wars upon wars thanks to the party that never got to drive and who now has the keys! Who do you think your fooling on the talk of trashing one party when both have continuously had claims in ethics violations and have robbed the people blind since the federal bank has come into the mix? Don't deny you missed that? It can't be? Are you actually going to write off what you totally can't deny knowing? And who's in denial now? Laying claim with a party that has dropped significantly the ball to keep this Nation safe is completely and totally AGAINST the Democratic Party! If you pay taxes, your part of the biggest manipulation the federal government has played on the American people sirs! Despite party affiliations, making remarks from your staunch educated proud place in the ivory towers has led YOU down the same road by claiming ANY stance that is associated with delivering one party against the other---who are you trying to kid? You know the damn truth and have like us, accepted the faults of your own in order to "do as your told" but have not the guts to say the truth! And in fact-because of the damn Tea Party, there is no way to really lay claim to any type of surety that either party has victory sealed but I'll fair one fact that has escaped your sight, being right in plain view you didn't miss it, or rather ignored it because of the unpleasantness of it! No matter who in congress voted for what-the president is still going to take your party down with himself without a doubt....just because! People don't forget. And they have very short fuses when the majority belongs to the working class!
WAnda.....small difference with car insurance..if you don't have it you are not charged by the fed with extra taxes....mortgage companies require insurance to protect themselves and you ,,, as with car insurance,,it should be up to the individual as to whether or not they have this type of health insurance...in some areas the cost of health insurance has already gone up...and I do not remember seeing anything in the health care bill that controls the cost of this forced cost ... and don't forget,,,the senators that voted this mess through do not and are not required to purchase this insurance as the rest of the general public is..and count on the fact that...even if that requirement was forced on them...your tax money would pay for it...it would not come out of their pocket.
Just a thought, but perhaps it's time to consider ending lifetime appointments of all federal judges inclusive of SC justices.
Maybe the best and brightest out there can advise whether that's even possible, and, if so, what actions would be necessary to change the current system, and what system might better replace the current one of lifetime service.
Obama Care
went to my doctor the other day , 1st time since the health care passed, normally I just walk in and see my doctor in a few minutes, this time there were over a hundread people in there, they had a machine where you had to take a number. most of the people i think were illegals, kept speaking spanish I think, couldnt understand a word they were saying. After a 3hour plus wait finally got to see the doctor. He told me good thing I'm seeing him now , next week he was quitting, can make more money working at the local burger joint part time. Told me with Obama care they can no longer give me my prescriptions, there not covered but if the pain became too bad I could go to the assisted suicide clinic they were opening up at the mall in 2 weeks. On my way out a normal 30 dollar visit cost me 350 bucks-asked why and they said The ones able to pay had to pay for all the ones who couldnt pay. When i walked past the receptionist she gave me 2 free coupons for a free abortion for my wife and daughter. Thanks dems for giving us Obama and his health care, now we who pay will really suffer!!
Here you go Liberals, take a look at this article and try to figure out the Big Government Health Care Matrix!!!! I hope there's time to revoke this piece of garbage!!!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-02/obamacare-only-looks-worse-upon-further-review-kevin-hassett.html
Just go down to the chart. You asked for it, I'm thinking you should pay for it too!!!
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/tx08_brady/pr_100728_hc_chart.html
Obama's idea of "centrist" is somewhere between Joseph Stalin and Chairman Mao. (LOL)
I thought that we would have to wait for a real president to be elected by the real Americans before we could begin to dismantle all the destructive legislation that this so-called administration has wrought.
I'm pleasantly surprised to see that the process has started already. This is good. As it will take several years at least to un-do the damage. The wasted trillions of dollars probably are gone for good.