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Not true, I do not have to buy a "green toilet", I can keep the one in my 70 yr. old home. I do not have to drink treated water, I can have a well dug.
Local building codes and federal mandates to purchase an item as a US citizen or have the force of the IRS upon you (read take your home & property for non-compliance) for not participating in dictated commerce is NOT Constitutional.
Even if you obviously think that other people's happiness is not worth the money, companies also benefit from healthy staff...
And who says what is a right, anyway? Many laws and constitutions were written when health care was no issue, yet.
Since people have no right to work, either, nor a right to food, you are taking people's fate out of their own hands and making them dependent on luck, welfare, etc.
We have corporate run airlines, newspapers, cell phone companies, paper mills, car factories, clothing manufacturers/retailers.... What's your point?
Non-sequitur. The priority of corporations is to make a profit. This goes for healthcare providers as well as airlines, car factories, etc. In other words, providing everyone with affordable healthcare is NOT a priority for either providers or insurers.
But market forces aren't controlling healthcare prices in the U.S. In fact, there is very little competition among healthcare providers. And the trend in the past 10 years has been merging providers, creating an atmosphere of even less competition, and driving prices higher still.
That's a splendid argument for privatizing health care. Welcome to the light, my friend. When medicare/caid sets the price basis for health care, every doc gets pretty much the same fee whether their in demand or not. Let market forces take over and docs will compete, either by price or by reputation, for business.
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Under the present Medicare program, many doctors and healthcare professionals are unjustly enriched due to the fixed fees and rates Medicare mandates.
Morally justify the unjust monetary enrichment of another.
After you attempt that (assuming you have the temerity and wherewithal to do so), note that many Medicare patients are denied health care due to the fact that the fixed fees and rates Medicare coerces do not cover the true costs of health care services.
Morally justify the denial of health care to another under Medicare.
Universally...
Mircea
Expert: Healthcare mandate constitutional
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In a brief for petitioners in the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says the individual mandate is a legitimate use of Congress' commerce and taxing powers because healthcare markets have near universal participation and the minimum coverage provision is needed to regulate the way individuals pay for their participation
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