It's not a sound argument in the slightest, but has a vague sound of legitimacy to the lay-idiot. That's why I was so disgusted to hear Obama use it. He's not an idiot. From him, it's not a just a weak argument, it's a fucking lie.

OK fine. When people start dying in the street then maybe the sane part of the populace will finally get fed up with the plutocrats and do something about them.

It won't be pretty, though, but it will be just.

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IT'S ON YOUTUBE, IT MUST BE TRUE

Careful, he and/or his minions will call you out for that.

LOL

Oddly, as a mere lad, I remember charity hospitals all over the country. All those church named hospitals were charity hospitals. What happened? Well, the Feds got involved.

Their number one worse contribution to health care was removing the charity deduction for in-kind services for doctors.

What about homeowners insurance? If you have a loan on your house the bank mandates you must have homeowners insurance. But there's no mandate to have insurance on your kids??? Come on. All insurance is for the "What If". You may never need it, but if you do, you're sure glad you have it. Is it fair to force the people that have insurance to pay for those who don't? It's time for everyone to start being responsible for themselves and stop relying on someone else.

I rarely agree with Obama--but on this one I agree with 100%. In fact, this was Hillary's plan--that Obama continually stuck his nose up at--during the primary season. Now he has done a flip-flop.

Yes--fine the crap out of people that do not have medical insurance.

Not only that but if one of the un-insured shows up at one of our emergency rooms--go ahead & fix them then add the cost of that medical care back to their TAX LIABILITIY--with interest payable at standard rates--& I don't give a hoot if it takes them the rest of their lives to pay back that bill.

Car insurance is liability insurance in case you hit someone elses car. Health insurance is for yourself. It's a huge difference.

However, some states don't require auto insurance (I agree with that philosophy).

edit: Should we all be required to have liability health insurance in case we just have to whoop some ass? lol, that's the only way I see a relation with this example.

The homeowners insurance is required by the lender because the lender has a stake in your house and stand to lose financially if you don't insure it. Don't want to pay HOI, pay cash for your house. The same for auto insurance. You hit somebody, they stand to lose financially if you don't have insurance. Don't want to pay for auto insurance, don't drive on public streets. If someone gets sick, no one loses financially if they have no insurance but themselves. But a mandate would require you to get insurance simply because you exist. Yeah, that's going to fly with the SCOTUS. There is no comparison between auto insurance and HOI and it shows that either Obama is ignorant for comparing the two or he believes there are enough ignorant people out there that do not undrestand the difference. I believe it is a little of both.

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"If you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine," he said. "It's the post office that's always having problems." Barack Obama on government run healthcare. 08/11/2009

American by birth.
Conservative by the grace of God.

Still sore about the war of northern aggression.

Judging by the posts here, it's obviously a little of both.

People without health insurance DO DAMAGE TO ALL OF US. We have to pay for them.

It is in fact--the exact same thing as driving a car wrecklessly & doing damage to another person or property.

Again--the issue as stated last night was addressed to those who could afford health insurance but "choose" not to get it--probably because the look of the car they drive are more important to them.

We don't have to pay for them. We've set up a system where we decided that we would pay for them. We really don't have to do anything.

I agree with your post except you have to give credit where credit is due George Harrison wrote Taxman

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In the strangest of places if you look at it right"
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Who in the fuck wakes up in the AM and says to themself.........."y'know, I think my life would be better if the goverment became a bigger part of it" ???? Evidently a lot, since there are multi millionsof liberals who are willing to change America for the illegals, the slackers, the unmotivated, and those who just plain want to spend their earnings elsewhere. The president who says, screw what the majority of Americans want, this is what we are going with is the cherry on top.

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Dems....a flash in the pan.

Your premise is wrong, we do not pay more for the same coverage brits get from NHS, most americans get much better service in the area of healthcare than the average brit gets from NHS.

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----Denny Crane

Owning a car or a home is a privlege not a right. Existing is a constitutional right and forcing people to have insurance simply because they exist violates that right. The link below explains it pretty well.

Hot Air Blog Archive Can Congress force me to buy health insurance?