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Old 03-04-2009, 10:41 AM
 
Location: Stewartsville, NJ
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How about a vanity tax? Tax botox all the politicians and movie stars would love that....
LOL..great idea!
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Old 03-04-2009, 04:03 PM
 
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I'd be willing to bet poor parenting costs us more, as a society, that fat people.

Let's let our politicians decide what constitues good parenting and then they can find a way to tax negligent parents into oblivion.

A win/win for everyone who needs a mommy state.
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Old 03-04-2009, 04:04 PM
 
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And cosmetic surgery...
And people who look, you know, kinda funny.
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Old 03-04-2009, 05:24 PM
 
Location: NJ/NY
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And cosmetic surgery...
Thats already been done. McGreevey instituted the cosmetic surgery tax in the same bill that taxed health club memberships. He also taxed surgery centers, so if you had plastic surgery in a surgery center the state made out pretty well.
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Old 03-05-2009, 11:06 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Addressing health care costs is critical. Federal, state, and local governments are now, and will in the future, drown in health care costs under medicare, medicaid, drug benefit plans, and other programs. Employers are already crushed by excessive health care costs. Social security is nowhere near as big a problem as health care. It's about time that someone thought about the future.
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Old 03-05-2009, 02:49 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Addressing health care costs is critical. Federal, state, and local governments are now, and will in the future, drown in health care costs under medicare, medicaid, drug benefit plans, and other programs. Employers are already crushed by excessive health care costs. Social security is nowhere near as big a problem as health care. It's about time that someone thought about the future.
Well.....I disagree........many countries offer health care and seem to be doing quite well with it.....such as Canada and many of the European and Scandanivan countries.....their government health programs may not be prefect but then then don't have a 12 billion dollar a month war to pay for either. Its not the health care cost its inept government thats dragging us down.
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Old 03-06-2009, 04:52 AM
 
Location: The Beautiful Pocono Mountains
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Well.....I disagree........many countries offer health care and seem to be doing quite well with it.....such as Canada and many of the European and Scandanivan countries.....their government health programs may not be prefect but then then don't have a 12 billion dollar a month war to pay for either. Its not the health care cost its inept government thats dragging us down.
No way, no how would I want Universal Healthcare. I've known too many people from these countries that have it and my own daughter experienced it first hand in France and it's nothing any of us would want.
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Old 03-06-2009, 02:33 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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it's not about Universal Healthcare per se ...it's about Universal access to Healthcare
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Old 03-07-2009, 05:45 AM
 
Location: The Beautiful Pocono Mountains
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We can all access healthcare and if you're illegal - all the better.
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Old 03-07-2009, 05:49 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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We can all access healthcare
my health insurer (whom I pay handsomely) makes me pick from a list of doctors...

my health insurer (whom I pay handsomely) tells me which prescriptions they will allow me to get...

my health insurer (whom I pay handsomely) tells my doctor which tests he/she can order...

I could go on, but you get the idea
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