Ok.. So people want a "public option"? Fine. Let them go down and sign up with the local health department and let them buy a policy for themselves with the weight of numbers to help leverage a lower cost policy..


since the left is in love with the auto insurance alanolgy, let's extend it to it's logical conclusion. Not everyone pays the same for auto insurance..

Males 16-25 years of age are far more likely to make a claim against their insurance policies because they drive more hazardously. Correspondngly, the rates that group gets charged for auto insurance is WAY higher than, say, mothers of three driving minivans. Give that teenage male a muscle car, a two door coupe or just paint it red and he (or more likely mommy and daddy) will be paying many hundreds of dollars a month in insurance premiums (premia?). The male testosterone is, in this context, a pre-existing condition..

You want "pre-existing conditions" covered in your medical insurance? Ok, that's cool. We can mandate that insurance companies cannot exclude things like cancer, diabetes, heart conditions, etc.. and must offer folks with such conditions policies. But just like the 18 year old with a mustang, it'll cost a bit more because those conditons represent a near guarantee that a claim will be made on the policy.


Want to encourage people to carry insurance? Great! I'm all for it. the question is how..
Q: how do you encourage activity in a free market?
A: make it tax beneficial.. make it tax deductible.. let people write the cost of their health care off their income..

why not take a free market approach? why not allow people in this free country to be free of government interference in their lives?

Why force people making 400% or more of the povertyline to shell out 20% of their income to pay for up to 97% of the the health care premiums (premia?) of those below them on the tax table? All while getting no benefit from the government?

Why do this other than to engage in social engineering and government-directed resource redistribution?

Why do this other than to engage in Karl Marx's political philosophy, taking from each according to his means, and giving to each according to his need?

I guess no one wants to stand up and argue that the only possible way to affect health care reform in this country is to place an unconstitutional mandate on the American people and confiscate a vast swath of their (our) incomes.

That's gotta be the only way, right?

No other possibilities exist. huh?

Gotta launder more money through Washington and let the congress tell us when to brush our teeth and go to bed...

Everything that could be said has been said.It is out of our hands now and there is nothing we can do except sit back and watch what happends.

that's slave-talk.. We'll have none of that!

We own the government.. they're not our rulers; they're our employees..