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Nick Bauman: Wonder why we are one of the most ill first world countries? http://abcnews.go.com/Health/HealthCare/health-insurers-post-record-profits/story?id=9818699
03/27/2012
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Frank Even: +Jason Vasquez It's in the Court because it's being attacked on a technicality. It was implemented not on the basis of the government's power to tax.
03/27/2012
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Frank Even: ...and the only other solution is to let people die...but if those self-same people who are generally "pro-life" want people to "live," then we need to understand that there is a cost to that.
03/27/2012
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Nick Bauman: My going to the hospital and not paying causes consequences to others. Just like driving without auto insurance and getting into an accident with another driver does. This is not rocket surgery, folks.
03/27/2012
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Nick Bauman: They reason they didn't call it a tax in the first place is because it wouldn't have gotten passed if they did. Every other industrialized country has this implemented essentially as a tax, and have subsequently gotten their costs under control, but it's ideological taboo here. As a small business owner, I will support any plan that…
03/27/2012
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Philip Thrift: The Netherlands has a mandate <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_mandate#The_Netherlands>. Short of Medicare For All (or a single-payer insurance system), this is the only way health care is going to work in America. The critics harping about "government overreach" are just the usual Tea Party wackos with their "Obama…
03/27/2012
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Frank Even: I agree that is a dumb stance on their part. But they do have the authority to levy it as a tax...they just don't want to call it that as the word "tax" has such a negative connotation in our current toxic political climate.
03/27/2012
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Frank Even: Dean, it doesn't even need to be under interstate commerce. It's a tax, plain and simple. They have the power to do that. Period.
03/27/2012
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John Benson: I loved the questions by Roberts - should the government mandate cell phone purchases for every citizen to make it easier to reach safety officials in case of an accident. And later on the comparison of burial insurance to health insurance had the Obama lawyer really squirming.
03/27/2012
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