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Amish people have never used insurance and they don't cost our system anything. When someone in their community needs medical care beyond their means the entire community pitches in to cover the cost. If they have to contact other Amish communities in different parts of the U.S. to get more money, they will. They will also hold auctions, bake sales and quilt auctions to help each other out.
Seems as if some people have no clue as to how the Amish live. They are just judging this as a religion based thing.
Sounds like a good system. Why isn't all our our uninsured doing the same?
Amish and Old Order Mennonites are pretty socialist in their approach to welfare of their own. Someone needs help -- illness, fires, deaths -- they don't pi$$ and moan about how much it costs them to take care of the others, they just do it. It's how God wants them to live.
For that matter, it isn't unheard of for them to come to the aid of those outside their community. My Haitian relief donation is going to the Mennonite Central Committee.
Exactly right. The Amish do not leave a very large carbon footprint and are very self sustaining. Not too many religious groups that can make that claim. Anyone that does not realize that should pay a visit to an Amish community and maybe learn something from how they live.
Anyone who can't understand why the Amish are exempt from mandated insurance just don't have a logical bone in their body and/or they don't have a grasp of how truly different these people live from the rest of us.
This is the transparency we were promised. Overt and not covert corruption and manipulation and vote buying.
And most Dems are going along with it as if they approve.
hmm i thought the transparency was supposed to be the discussions were going to be on CSPAN (thats what Obama said)
and that Obama wouldnt pull a Bush/Cheney and have secret meetings with big business.
B/C are accused of doing this with big oil....not sure what big oil got out of it.
Obama did it with Big Pharma and Big Pharma has spent millions on ads supporting Obamacare....
But I get what you are saying here. If "my" side does it and "it" gets me what I want, I wont complain.
Anyone who can't understand why the Amish are exempt from mandated insurance just don't have a logical bone in their body and/or they don't have a grasp of how truly different these people live from the rest of us.
The Amish are kind of a non-starter... but will you defend the Union exemption on the so called Cadillac plans?
The Amish are kind of a non-starter... but will you defend the Union exemption on the so called Cadillac plans?
I've already given my two cents on that topic on several of the union threads. This is an Amish thread. But I will say this: don't assume that all union workers have Cadillac plans. They don't. And you don't have to be in a union to have that kind of plan either. 40% of Americans have them.
Better yet..someone defend the Nebraska sweetheart deal ?
No one can defend that. I hope it gets thrown out when they blend the house and senate versions together.
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