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Originally Posted by Idyllic
I don’t like it and you can say all the good and wonderful misconceptions about this bill you want to, in the end however you cannot change the simple fact, this singular fact;
It is UNCONSTITUTIONAL to do this to the American people; the Federal government cannot mandate all Americans to purchase whatever they decide we should buy.
The 10th Amendment of the Constitution was created to prevent this from happening, to prevent the Federal Government from doing this to its people, from requiring the people of the U.S. to participate in the purchase of health insurance, or anything, as a demand or be penalized.
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Levying taxes and providing for the general welfare are both constitutional, last time I checked. Sure enough, there are constitutional challenges to the bill, and guess what? We have a supreme court to decide these issues.
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Don't any of you get that the insurance company wanted this too, they paid and pushed for it to pass and not because they love Americans, but because they love the money it will make them, what’s with the middle man Obama, why pay a middle man for health care when the government will inevitably be in control.
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Yes - the insurance companies like this bill as well - they will indeed make more money. Conservatives should love this bill, because of how pro-business it is.
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The bill states over and over again how there will be governmental intervention in all aspects of health care from preventative care to end of life, and not just hello care, we are talking affirmative action care with investigations on all matters from you to the doctors to the hospitals.
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Where in this bill is doctor-patient privacy removed? Where is this government intervention you speak of? For most of us, the government intervention is in the form of the mandate. For insurance companies, the trade-off they pay for the mandate are regulations like no more recisions, no more denying coverage based upon pre-existing conditions, etc. Most people get coverage, people who can't afford it get subsidies. Various other fixes for government programs, etc.
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If you look you can find plenty of articles that talk of the down-fall of governmental health care, the delays the lack of continuity the lack of follow-up and follow-through the lack of equipment and the shortages of supplies, etc.
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And if you look you can find that *every* other industrialized country provides healthcare for all of their citizens for far less money per-capita, and usually at least as good quality - in terms of life expectancy, patient satisfaction, etc. If they can do it, why can't we?
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This is the wrong bill. It really is that simple and those who disagree don’t truly understand the freedom of being an American, and what the repercussion of the loss of that freedom this represents, not to mention the precedence it will set if it does become law and what additional doors of socialist impositions it will open.
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In reality, this is a *very* conservative bill. There is no loss of freedom for Americans - none. Zero. Zip. a tax isn't a loss of freedom. You could argue that government-controlled healthcare like in Great Britain would be a loss of freedom...but look at how much less they pay per capita for essentially the same outcomes.