I'm not getting into licensing cars vs guns; that's another issues and a whole different Constitutional set of arguments.
I do think that people are focusing on the "you have to buy health care" and missing the parts where the insurance companies are being ordered to provide affordable policies and the Government will provide subsidies.
My parents fell into the doughnut hole. That, on top of Dad's old company playing "screw the retirees" and the flushing of the economy halving their savings and investments (plus wiping some out) was a major hardship. This bill is of immediate help to them and everyone like them - people who worked hard, did all the right things, and then got shafted in every direction as soon as they were too old to go back into the workforce. For that reason alone, even if the bill meant immediate and horrific consequences to me, I would support it.
The forced purchase doesn't kick in for years - time enough for the details to be hammered out in courts and the insurance companies to be leveraged or forced back into providing the kind of health insurance policy that I nostalgically remember having and miss desperately.
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Date: 2010-03-25 10:56 am (UTC)I do think that people are focusing on the "you have to buy health care" and missing the parts where the insurance companies are being ordered to provide affordable policies and the Government will provide subsidies.
My parents fell into the doughnut hole. That, on top of Dad's old company playing "screw the retirees" and the flushing of the economy halving their savings and investments (plus wiping some out) was a major hardship. This bill is of immediate help to them and everyone like them - people who worked hard, did all the right things, and then got shafted in every direction as soon as they were too old to go back into the workforce. For that reason alone, even if the bill meant immediate and horrific consequences to me, I would support it.
The forced purchase doesn't kick in for years - time enough for the details to be hammered out in courts and the insurance companies to be leveraged or forced back into providing the kind of health insurance policy that I nostalgically remember having and miss desperately.