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Except that, as they say, that horse is out of the barn.
Try reforming health care back to the way it was. The insurance lobbyists are too strong. We will never have $50 doctor visits again, either. My last visit, for a sore throat with no lab tests was $176.00.
Health care costs are out of whack because five decades of government money flooding the system has produced the predictable results. And employer-provided health insurance has masked these effects from the consumer. Every part of health care that is NOT typically insured or part of government benefits has worked well in the normal action of a relatively free market. Vision correction surgery, for example, has done nothing but get better and better over the years, with stable or declining costs.
When the government pays $2200 for $400 wheelchairs, they make it difficult to find $400 wheelchairs for $400. When the government provides eye exams and eyeglasses every six months to the indigent, they make it more expensive for everybody else to afford eye exams and eyeglasses every two or four years. When the government will pay unlimited amounts of money for expensive surgery of questionable value on people who are 80 or 90 years old, they make it difficult for people to afford their own health care AND carry the cost of the government spending.
That horse may be out of the barn, but it is imperative that it is corralled and put back in the barn. If you want to have a mandate, then mandate that everyone has to pay copays and deductibles for everything. Encourage high deductible health insurance instead of outlawing it. Promote transparency in pricing. Let the states experiment with Medicaid. Get rid of the mandated expenses in health insurance--let people buy the amounts and kinds of coverage they want.
This guy is DANGEROUS. It's time the people of this country woke up
He is Dangerous but may be able to buy enough uneducated votes with the promises of more welfare, amnesty and free benefits that he could very well buy his way into another term.
I wonder if he does get reelected, at what point he tries to over turn the 2 term limits. Surely he'll need another 8-12 years to turn us completely socialist.
Everything Obama says between now and November is for his campaign. Everything.
As for the court, the most outspoken liberal judge speaks more about the practically of the law (forcing everybody to buy insurance prevents an unfair burden on those that voluntarily do). While that may be true and a valid point, the job of the Supreme Court is to decide if a law is constitutional.
As for Obama's declaration that the law received the support of the democratically elected congress (which is a subject in itself but will accept that as true) the concerns of the Supreme Court are not whether most people want it, it is whether the law is constitutional.
After Obama sullied the Supremes during th SOTU address, i'd say what he has coming to him is well deserved.
I really do believe they're above petty paybacks. They are deliberating on the merits of the question as to the constitutionality of the mandate. It's not "playing politics" to declare an un-constitutional mandate un-constitutional. It's calling a horse a horse. That Obama doesn't like his beloved prize pony being called a horse is understandable, but that's just the way it is.
It's all political, he's speaking to his base which is currently demoralized. After the decision is announced, he can say the Court made an outrageous error and hope his base gets angry enough to bail him out.
This just shows what the mentality of this president is....the Supreme court will rule according to the rule of LAW and the CONSTITUTION....and that shows just EXACTLY what obama thinks about the constitution. He has...and always will....view it as an OBSTACLE....something to be circumvented....an 'inconvenience'.
This guy is DANGEROUS. It's time the people of this country woke up
He is Dangerous but may be able to buy enough uneducated votes with the promises of more welfare, amnesty and free benefits that he could very well buy his way into another term.
I wonder if he does get reelected, at what point he tries to over turn the 2 term limits. Surely he'll need another 8-12 years to turn us completely socialist.
If this happened and he kept on getting reelected, would you admit that your way of thinking is out of the mainstream? Or would you say "Americans are stupid"; the usual conservative mantra when their ideals are seen as less than ideal?
On the one hand, I have grave concerns about the use of the Commerce Clause to create an individual mandate to obtain health insurance.
On the other hand, you learn in law school that, historically, the Supreme Court gives 'great deference' to Acts of Congress.
After all, in the past when the Supreme Court interpreted some law or reached a result that Congress did not like, the remedy was for Congress to forthwith pass a bill (signed, of course, by the presiding President, or else over-riding a veto) that 'over ruled' the Court.
Yet, if the Court truly believes that Congress was overstepping its bounds, then the Court should strike said law down. After all, if Congress passes a Bill that restricts freedom of speech, we would hope that the Court would say said Bill does not pass Constitutional muster.
Of course, I do want all of these uninsured people to get insurance so I don't have to keep footing the bill for their treatment. Yet, I guess in the end the Court will strike down at least the individual mandate. I shall keep on paying for the freeloaders.
Who will be rejoicing? Said freeloaders and Republicans. That seems like an odd pairing.
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