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Now the Left opposes individual mandate

19 minutes ago ago from Rancho Miller

Obamacare's individual mandate which Barack Obama opposed as a candidate requiring all U.S. households to purchase insurance has been opposed from the beginning of this debate by conservatives. The belief is that it is an infringement on individual liberty and unconstitutional to require people to purchase anything as a condition of lawful residence in the United States. The thread in the Democrats' and even some Republicans' health care ...

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Healthcare reform appeals to emotion, but logic falls flat

1 day ago ago from The Underground

by Zach Becker All Americans should have access to affordable healthcare and no one should be denied coverage by health insurers because they are sick. It's a great ideal, but how great an idea is it in reality? Time to buy some full coverage insurance! Under the latest Senate bill, all Americans will be required to buy health insurance or else pay a penalty. In exchange, health insurers will not be allowed to deny people ...

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Morality of a health insurance mandate

15 hours ago ago from Scott E. Harrington, Ph.D.

Advocates of health care reform commonly stress that universal health insurance is a moral imperative.  The House and Senate health-care reform bills would force many people with relatively low incomes to buy expensive health insurance.  They also would force many younger people and people with healthy life-styles to pay higher premiums to subsidize lower premiums for middle-aged and older people and people with unhealthy life-styles.  Can ...

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Those trees out there are getting quite dense...

22 hours ago ago from Big Brass Blog

LetÂs see if I got this straight. The current Senate Health Care bill passes. Ve MUSS buy insurance von za private companies or face an IRS fine, unlike ShittiGroup. The health companies are still allowed to raise prices, decrease services, deny coverage for pre-existing conditions and cancel plans for any reason. There is also a Âtax on the whole thing that makes the buyer pay for being required by Barry and Congress to buy health ...

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Health Care Lunacy

16 hours ago ago from All the Pages Are My Days

I've been sick with a slight fever all week, so maybe I just don't understand what's going on regarding the proposed Health Care Reform bill, but here's what I see as of this date. To cut to the chase, I believe the proponents of this bill are, as my British colleagues might say, barking mad! As I understand it, they propose to FORCE people to BUY insurance and then CLAIM they've expanded coverage for millions. Yes, read that ...

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Jeffrey Feldman: Health Care Without Bankruptcy, Please

1 hour, 32 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post

What kind of an America would we suddenly create if the President were to sign into law a health care bill with a mandate to buy private insurance? An America where millions would be covered, but bankrupt, broke, financially kaput. And unhealthy, too. Wait--what? You guessed it. All the fever-pitched, media-amplified ranting about "death" that has dominated the health care debate has likely done little more than obscure the ultimate ...

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Miles Mogulescu: The Health Insurance and Drug Industry Profit Protection Act Sucks and Should be Killed

23 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

For 60 years, progressives, liberals, and most Democrats have stood for universal health care, paid for by progressive taxes, and available to all Americans from birth 'till death. The Obama administration and Congressional Democrats have now stood that goal on its head with a bill that purports to provide health care to the uninsured by forcing them to buy defective and unaffordable insurance from unscrupulous private companies or be fined ...

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Expanded Health Care Coverage? Rumors Are Greatly Exaggerated, Unless Paying Fines Is Now 'Health Care'

18 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

Well, for my next trick, I was going to demonstrate that the contention that the watered-down Senate health care compromise will nevertheless lead to a virtuous expansion of care for some 30 million Americans was pure bunkum... but I see that over at The Plum Line, Greg Sargent has already plucked that bunny carcass from the hat : The assertion -- a reference to the individual mandate -- has been picked up widely and uncritically in the ...

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1 in 5 in U.S. lost health insurance since 2008

22 hours ago ago from NBC

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Howard Dean Debates Health Care With Mary Landrieu, Chris Matthews (VIDEO)

11 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

Howard Dean is digging in. The former DNC Chairman appeared on MSNBC's Hardball on Wednesday, getting into a heated health care debate with both host Chris Matthews and senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA). Dean defended his "kill the bill" position espoused a day earlier on the network's Countdown with Keith Olbermann , saying that good things about currently proposed health care reforms are outweighed by "goodies" to insurance companies. "It ...

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