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Still bitter over that stinging reproof, eh? Not knowing what the term "voluntary tax system" actually means is an entry on YOUR ledger (among others). And it'll not be found under Assets.
If you're buying insurance now from a major insurance company you already are "being forced to conform to the interests of those in power"
That is where you are completely wrong. People who buy insurance now do so voluntarily they not being forced to buy anything. If a 20 year old chooses not to buy health insurance, and instead puts their money into home or car payments, that is entirely their choice. But you would have government remove all choice and impose your will by force. You would create the fascist socialist nation of America. Did you not learn anything from 1930's NAZI Germany?
"arbitrarily defined requirements" - not hardly arbitrary.
"Essential Benefits Package” Requirements for “Qualified Health Benefit Plans.” Cost‐sharing underthe essential benefits package would be designed so that the plan covers approximately 70 percent ofthe full value of benefits in the essential benefits package; “Qualified Health Benefit Plans” could cover ahigher percentage.
The essential benefits package would be required to cover the following items andservices:
• hospitalization;
• outpatient hospital and clinic services, including emergency department services;
• services of physicians and other health professionals;
• services, equipment, and supplies incident to the services of a physician or health professional inappropriate settings;
• prescription drugs;
• rehabilitative and “habilitative” services (i.e., services to maintain the physical, intellectual,emotional, and social functioning of developmentally delayed individuals);
• mental health and substance use disorder servicescertain preventive services (with no cost‐sharing permitted) and vaccines;
• maternity care;
• well‐baby, well‐childcare, oral health, vision, hearing services, equipment, and supplies for those under age 21
arbitrarily: marked by or resulting from the unrestrained and often tyrannical exercise of power
If a 21 year old man, who was not a "developmentally delayed individual," wanted an insurance policy that did not cover every day office visits, "well‐baby, well‐childcare, mental health and substance use disorder" or any manner of arbitrarily mandated government requirements, he would not have an "Essential Benefits Package” and he would be fined/taxed by the government. And if his employer offered the same plan to his all male employees, he would suffer fines and penalties too.
Does anyone see the irony in the claim that medicare, government insurance, wastes billions, so we're going to use those wasted billions to fund government insurance? He would gain some credibility if he would go ahead and cut the billioins of wasted dollars (without cutting services as he claims) and demonstrate that to the people. Then he would only need to figure out how to pay for the other third or whatever it is that's left.
You clearly don't get it, 0bamaCare will have zero waste and zero fraud, it will be perfection on earth. So none of your concerns about a US history replete with examples of bloated, inefficient, wasteful, over budget government programs applies here.
Does anyone see the irony in the claim that medicare, government insurance, wastes billions, so we're going to use those wasted billions to fund government insurance? He would gain some credibility if he would go ahead and cut the billioins of wasted dollars (without cutting services as he claims) and demonstrate that to the people. Then he would only need to figure out how to pay for the other third or whatever it is that's left.
I think that's the plan, to start cutting the waste and saving the money now, for 2013 when all systems should be (Pay)Go.
If a 20 year old chooses not to buy health insurance, and instead puts their money into home or car payments, that is entirely their choice.
Yeah, sure it is. Until Mr. 20-Year-Old puts all that money into a new way-cool motorcycle that he then splatters along with himself into a tree, while of course not wearing a helmet, as that would be a sign of having surrendered his Individual Freedom. Then the ambulance comes and they haul him off to the emergency room where they plug him up to expensive machines and do all sorts of expensive procedures to save his worthless butt, while I and everybody else end up paying for it.
The choice you want to provide isn't the choice to accept or reject health care. Your hero will get that when he needs it. The choice you want to provide him is the choice to walk away from his own Personal Responsibility® to pay for it.
Yeah, imagine that. The folks who ever strut about claiming to be the champions of Personal Responsibility® now want to forget about all that stuff entirely. And now all those loudmouths who whine on and on about how this free health care that goes to shiftless illegal aliens is driving them into the poorhouse through higher premiums have suddenly changed their tune.
What a lot of flat out flim-flam arguments you all put up.
I onced argued in NM that anybody who chose to forgo a helmet should also forgo treatment in the event of an accident. My congressman wanted nothing to do with me. That was about 1992 if I remember.
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