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It provides health care to something like 10% of our population that didn't previously have it. Sounds alright to me. And just because I support government provided health care doesn't mean I support government monopolies in general. May I remind you that every other industrialized country has government provided health care? Infringement of civil liberties, eh? That people are required to have health care? Because clearly more people would be willing to blow all of their savings to get their cheek swabbed rather than having insurance that covers it. The Patriot Act is a much worse infringement on civil liberties than PPACA is. Taking a ton of money out of care providers was probably the wrong way to pay for it, though. Time will only tell what will happen.
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Nanci Peloski: "We need to pass this bill to see what's in it" Seriously, that's gross negligence on the part of our Representatives for not reading it.
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It Forces 10 percent of the population who don't have health insurance, many of which, don't want it, or can't afford to pay for it, to either, whether they can afford it or not, buy health insurance from a private company (or the government which deliberately sells for lower), OR, pay a Penalty (TAX!). Furthermore, the penalty (TAX), required for refusing to buy health insurance, is Deliberately Lower than the Cost of a Health Insurance Plan, deliberately inducing Private Employers (Companies), in order to keep the cost of doing business low (and thereby keeping the price of their products low), to drop ALL Insurance Coverage plans for their employees which they had beforehand, and just pay the fee, causing far FAR more Americans to be without an Insurance Policy, and putting Insurance Companies out of business. Additionally, the Penalty (TAX) is deliberately set to increase in cost Above the price of the Governmental Insurance Plan, several years down the road, deliberately to force those who have been "cutting costs" by paying the penalty (TAX), to sign onto the government's Plan, since the majority of the Health Insurance Companies have already bankrupted and gone out of business during the previous period of lower cost for not buying a plan. Ultimately we end up with a single insurance policy provider, controlled entirely by the government, AKA a Government Monopoly, which requires higher and higher taxes to fund because it, like all other Governmental Programs, runs at a Net Monetary LOSS. Sounds like an absolutely TERRIBLE system to me. Quote:
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It's not correct that you have to buy the insurance or else pay a penalty tax if you're below a certain income level. I don't have the magazine with me on hand but I read a Time article about the Supreme Court's decision regarding the so-called Obamacare (the one where Roberts offered a split verdict which gave Obama the health care victory but gave the Republicans the states rights stuff) and in that article they had a two-page spread laying it out in very succinct language who would be affected by the Supreme Court's ruling and by Obamacare and how, and they specifically said that it works like this:
Step 1. You have to buy health insurance. Step 2. If you don't, you're now submitted to a penalty tax. Step 3. However, if you're below a certain income level, the penalty tax is waved. So it's basically a fictitious boogie man talking point whenever the Tea Party asserts that "Obamacare" will fork over lower-income families. No. The only people it will "fork over" are those middle class or upper class families who, for whatever private reasons, have up until now decided to opt out of health insurance programs. They're admittedly hit by the law, yes. But the idea there is that the cost to those families far and away offsets the much larger cost to society when they show up to the emergency room with stage 3 cancer and suddenly they need millions from the Catholic hospital's charity pot -- millions that were supposed to go to families who genuinely could not afford to cover their costs because they make less than $35,000 (or whatever the exact number is) annually. To repeat though: if you're poor in America, you will not be required to buy health insurance. So explainethed the article I don't have on me right now. But if I need to find it, I can try. EDIT: Here's the magazine issue in question. Here's the article in question but without any of the special charts and inserts I was talking about. And while I have no freakin' clue who this is, here's one man's explanation of who pays and who doesn't and he lists off that you won't be paying the penalty tax if you’re in prison, if you’re poor, if you’re in a period of being uninsured that’s less than three months long (i.e. recently lost your job), if your religion forbids getting health insurance, and so on.
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I don't have 40+ hours to read it, and then another 40+ hours to figure out exactly what it means. I have on good authority what it does say though.
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Next they'll be forcing people who don't want to buy healthy food, to buy healthy, "organic" food. Especially since it'll lower financial strain on the Public Health Care Option. ;) Quote:
Either way though, people lose jobs, and people lose coverage. But the company going bankrupt is far far worse for employees, since everyone loses both their coverage, AND their income. Quote:
If a company can't make a profit, it can't provide any product in the first place, be it "decent" or "terrible." In a FREE market, companies are forced to compete with each other, both in price AND product quality. There will always be an alternative, which can be more decent quality than what you first see. And, if there is not such a quality, YOU can start your own business and provide such a "quality product" for others, and yourself. Companies save money so that they can EXPAND, and provide More and Better Quality products to their customers. If they can't save money, they are forced to make ONLY products of quality which they can afford to offer. What we had BEFORE Obamacare, was a mess of regulations and government intervention, and high risk and liability on the part of the companies. Although, Health CARE, has Always been provided to people needing it, The problem was people's inability to pay the high cost, which was a direct result of the major government regulations and intervention, and the high risk and liability that comes with the medical field. For example, if Doctors weren't forced to buy Malpractice insurance, they wouldn't have to pass the direct cost of that insurance over to their customers, and the prices would all be that much lower because of it. Quote:
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I thought the whole idea of the individual mandate was so that people who take advantage of the system, would have to pay in to their own health care as well. Now I'm being told that, people who don't pay in, will still be covered? Those who have, "up until now, decided to opt out of health insurance programs (by living under the "poverty line"), when they show up to the emergency room with stage 3 cancer and suddenly they need millions" will be getting MY Tax dollars to pay for their care? How is this any different than what we had BEFORE Obamacare? Last edited by unownmew; 08-24-2012 at 02:31 PM. |
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Oh wait, that's the version of Obamacare you hold in your head and you are principally against it. So maybe we should just say "if you don't have this expensive private health care, you can't go into the emergency room" and then see health insurance policy pricing skyrocket. Honestly, unownmew, you're grasping at straws and arguing for argument's sake. Do you even know what you're saying? First it was "THE GUMMINT IS MAKING PEOPLE DO THINGS THIS IS SOOO UNLIBERTY" but now it's "MY TAX MONEY IS GOING TO THINGS I DON'T USE THIS IS SO UNLIBERTY"
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Yeah, Government has authority to TAX behavior and non-behavior now, and that's a major issue. It doesn't solve the problem it was intended to solve in the first place, that's another major issue. It's also helluva expensive, and most likely going to be impossible to balance on a budget, keeping America in debt. Another major problem. So, that's 3 strikes against Obamacare. I could go on if need be though, but let's just get rid of it. |
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Jesus was ideologically a socialist. If a portion of your money could save the lives of those who can't afford it on their own, then I'm pretty certain he would be 100% for this. Sure, the people who sit at home and aren't a productive member of society and bringit on themselves don't deserve it (this is the part the Republicans hate, I've found, because they don't believe hard workers should be paying the expenses of the lazy, which is a fair argument, albeit flawed), but for those like, say, the old man I met in the pharmacy a few months ago, who went to buy his wife's medicine, but was told it was $750? Yes, he turned it down and solemnly walked away because he couldn't afford it. Such a thing shouldn't even be happening in this country. So, if my contributions via a new health system will be saving lives, then you're fucking right I'm all for it, even if the truly lazy are a byproduct of the benefits.
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Out of curiosity, what is it that you do that puts you in the higher tax bracket um?
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Jesus was for Charity, NOT Taxes. There is a very clear difference between what Jesus would want and what you're talking about. 1. Taxes are MANDATORY. You can't say no, and you can't say yes. And you have very little control where your money actually goes. --Yeah, some of your taxes will go towards helping the destitute, after the government lines their pockets with a very sizeable portion going towards "Pet Projects," "earmarks," "Pork," and then it funnels through the bureaucracy paying for stuff like paperclips, staples, and paper, and finally, the Salaries of all the government workers. When it's all said and done, maybe 30 cents of every dollar actually reaches the beneficiaries. 2. Charity is VOLUNTARY. The Essence of Christianity is, help others Because you Want to. The difference between Christianity and Every other Religion in the world, is, Christianity, in it's purest sense, entirely voluntary. If you don't want to be a Christian, that's fine, you don't have to be, if you do, you get the benefits and blessings that come from doing so. Same with Charity. In order for it to actually count, it MUST be done voluntarily. And that necessitates it NOT be done through taxation. --When you give to a charity, a whole lot MORE of the money you give actually makes it to the beneficiaries as well, making it a FAR more worthwhile action for the recipients than a Tax. Quote:
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>but that doesn't mean I'm jealous and terribly envious of other people's success, and think that they owe me a piece of the pie they built themselves,
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I pay taxes, you pay taxes, and I'm not going to be paying for a health plan because the government compels me to, especially when the fine is cheaper, so I'll be paying the fine as long as I can.
Are you telling me that our taxes are not going to be used for Insuring other people? Just because Obama wants the higher bracket to pay more doesn't mean the lower bracket won't be paying as well. The only bracket that won't be paying for everyone else's healthcare, are the moochers and the destitute. Everyone else will be forced to bail them out. |
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Unownmew, I'm curious. What do you think happens if a poor person gets sent to a hospital by an ambulance.
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Is this not compassionate enough? No one was denied Health Care in America before Obamacare. What is not provided is a method by which to pay for that care if the person did not already have it. And that's What Charities and Community Fund Raisers are for. If the poor person doesn't seek help from those methods, or attempt to work off their debts themselves, they're only burning themselves. There is absolutely no need for the Federal Government to get involved, except to repeal all the burdensome regulations they've created, that are causing the providing of Health Care to be so costly in the first place. If there Must be some form of Federal intervention, why are tax-deductible health savings accounts not an adequate solution? |
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This of course, would have happened anyway, before Obamacare, since you and the person who got the surgery paid taxes, and by law the Hospital was required to serve them their triple bypass surgery to save their life. The difference here is, besides the problem with government gaining a new avenue to control people's lives, before Obamacare, the person getting the surgery would have had to find someway to pay for it themselves, either through working, charity, or fund raising, whereas, with Obamacare, now everyone else is getting jipped for their surgery as well. Oh, and that's assuming the "Board of Health" or whatever approves the surgery. Which might not be the case if the person needing it was a senior citizen, since it's just not cost efficient to pay for someone who's going to die soon anyway. Quote:
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Corporations can cope with losing employees and paying higher prices, up to a point, they'll just pass the expenses on to the consumer (so everything we buy will be raised in price drastically), but most SMALL businesses, are barely surviving day-to-day with a small workforce, and a tiny profit margin. When they get hit with Obamacare's Health Insurance mandate, they'll flop. They will bankrupt, and everyone will suffer. On top of it all, it will skyrocket the cost of start-up businesses, making it near impossible for anyone not already super rich, to start a new business. Quote:
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People can't save and shouldn't be expected to save? WTF? You're telling me that people shouldn't have to be responsible for themselves and their decisions? That is absolutely INSULTING! Here I am, saving up, managing my risk, putting away for a rainy day, and trying to improve my personal financial standing by limiting my expenses and not splurging on the newest and latest gadgets and stuff, and you're telling me people should be able to get away scott-free without planning ahead for emergencies!? Insulting! Besides, what's the difference between saving money and paying the same amount out to a health insurance agency every month? At the end of your life, if you paid into health insurance, and rarely used it, you're thousands of dollars less then you could be. If you paid into a savings account, if you didn't touch it much, you have all that money to pay for your life-threatening surgery as a senior, or you can use it as retirement. If you paid into insurance, and had to use it, you STILL have to pay for the care, you just pay LESS then you would originally. While if you had a savings account, and had use it, you might just be able to cover the entire cost yourself without needing reduced costs... Quote:
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Basically, your argument is "nothing has happened yet, BUT IT WILL!" Sure, I'll wait until something bad happens, but until then, Obamacare is the way to go. Unless you have something else to add?
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Why do I bother spending hours of my time typing up replies to educate your ignorance, when no one replies or listens to a thing I say? Maybe I should just resort to Trolling, since that's all I ever seem to get in response...
I shall think on this. In the meantime: There's plenty of options to solve the real root problem that do not involve universal healthcare, and do not Triplicate our already $16 TRILLION dollar debt and deficit. If you're not willing to listen to them, I'm not going to waste my time. But just remember, we saw Greece's problems coming off well in advance, and knew the cause, but you want to adopt similar policies here? Insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. |
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Despite what you may personally believe, I don't believe he's really interested in debate and finding the truth. He's made this painfully clear in the past not through his claims but through his actions. There were many, many times where were it a real debate he'd have been ejected. Muyo had little patience and blocked him very early. I gave the guy multiple chances but eventually I too had no choice but to block him, not for the efficacy but for the sheer symbolic weight of the act. And I have no intention of unblocking him. The few snippets of his posts I've seen in the past half a year from you guys quoting his posts has shown me very little growth on his part. He's the same person I put on block months back and so, no, he stays on block. He is disruptive, distracting, and frankly ruinous to most debates here. He's trollbait for members like Rangeet who aim for the low-hanging unownmew fruit rather than confronting the more intellectually challenging and credible claims made by the people on the other side of the fence from them. To put it simply, his presence does not make it easy for UPN's theists (e.g. Amras), Republicans (e.g. formerly deoxys), or Texans (e.g. formerly Muyo) to be able to defend their views. He reminds me of the disruptive redneck questioner with a John Deere baseball cap and red flannel who shows up to a scientific guest lecture and tries to hog the podium (and ends up having to be forcibly removed!) putting stupid Creationist criticism after stupid Creationist criticism to the scientist. A true waste of everyone's time. Cruel as that language sounds, that's precisely how I'd describe him.
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