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“Essentially, the Solicitor General’s performance was so abysmal that it fell to the [Democratic] appointees to make his argument for him,” says Adam Serwer, reporter for Mother Jones.
So much more than not only do they have 100% coverage and non-existent bankruptcy due to health care issues, but they actually turned a surplus on health care. We can't have any of that blasphemy here.
I'm sure the anti-Obamacare people will be happy when they are turned down by any insurance company because of any pre-existing condition, or when their unemployed college grad can't be on their insurance due to age.
I'm not in favor of the mandate however, you are correct. Those rates are going to climb regardless because they can and profit is the sole reason. Nothing, absolutely nothing is wrong with profit, unless people's health and well being are on the line and that is where I take issue.
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It's always been about 50/50 and it depended on two opinions. Everyone knew this going in.
If it stands, Obama "wins". We can see what happens.
If it does not stand, Obama tried. And when insurance companies inevitably raise their premiums despite this fact, he will campaign on both these facts.
Sorry, but a decision rendered in June will not give insurance companies enough time to regroup and raise premiums to a degree that Obama will be able to effectively make it a campaign issue for November. Obama is out in 2012 if it is found that the "Constitutional Scholar" signed an "unconstitutional" law. His detractors are far too many, and strikedown will be the straw that broke the camels back.
But they don't know that because no one TELLS them that.
They are TOLD that it is just more government invasion of privacy or whatever the fear flavor of the day is.
These are the people who actually would cut off their noses to spite their faces. In other words, republicans.
You can not get a little bit pregnant. Obamacare is the worst of both worlds- It enabled Insurance companies to raise Premiums while having a government force people to pay for it.
Just provide the Gd healthcare. The Germans have a great model.
My feelings exactly----Just get it done!! Take medicare for example..My wife is disabled and paid into the system nearly 30 years without using it (FICA). Now that she using it she pays a premium per month for medicare and she pays for an "advantage plan" additional coverage from the private sector. For profit insurance hand in hand with the a single payer. We all ready have a system a little similar to Germany's, however, without cost controls---medicinal costs for example.
I'm sure the anti-Obamacare people will be happy when they are turned down by any insurance company because of any pre-existing condition, or when their unemployed college grad can't be on their insurance due to age.
I think most of them are counting on their Medicare/Medicaid programs... the "keep government out of my socialized plan" crowd. The rest, well that would include the naive and the self-defeaters. I really hope if their dreams do come true, that they be the first to taste the outcomes.
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