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FlyersFan
xuenchen
The author of this story is suggesting ObamaCare will be repealed soon enough.
Won't happen. SCOTUS says that Obamacare, which is the largest 'tax hike' in US history, is the law of the land. No matter how obvious it is that we all got screwed, we are stuck with it. IMHO.
Forget the United States,"Obamacare is nothing more than the largest tax increase in the history of the world," he declared.
This claim is wrong.
While the health care law certainly is, on the whole, a tax increase, it’s not the largest in American history -- and as such -- cannot be the largest in the history of the world. (Luckily, there's enough U.S.-based research that we don't have to explore the tax increases of the Roman Empire, adjusted for inflation.)
SpaDe_
reply to post by theantediluvian
Maybe you can explain how forcing people to purchase insurance is a stride in the right direction for the "common good" as you put it, or for "equality"?
Using young healthy people to subsidize the weak and sick is being equal?
Forcing people to pay a tax or purchase something they may not need is for the common good?
theantediluvian
"Using young healthy people to subsidize the weak and sick" The weak? Would you care to elaborate?
The real fun might begin next month, when Healthcare.gov is supposed to be up and running, and ready to deal with the expected rush of millions seeking new insurance policies before the New Year. Let’s assume that the site is functioning well enough, even if only barely, and that the state exchanges are up and running, too. Millions are going to find themselves facing the twin devils of higher premiums and higher deductibles. That means they’ll take home less pay, and have to sock away more money into savings. The resulting reduction in consumer spending — 70% of the U.S. economy — could be a body blow to our already weak growth.
Or suppose the rush never materializes, since only 22% of the uninsured actually plan on buying ObamaCare policies. That’s the “death spiral” insurers fear, when rising prices force out the young and healthy, leaving them with nobody but the old and sick. At the start of the new year, our economy might just be looking at a collapsing insurance industry, declining consumer spending, rising underemployment, and a shrinking labor force — all at once.
reply to post by AllnMyHead
It drives me crazy when people go around saying that they lost their insurance because of "Obamacare". They didn't. They lost their insurance because their health plan didn't make the necessary changes that they knew they had to make in the previous THREE YEARS that they had to make them. These regulations were needed..BADLY! I have said a million times and I will say it again "INSURANCE COMPANIES DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU OR YOUR HEALTH AND WILL SCREW YOU OVER ANY CHANCE THEY GET!" I know, I work with them every day.
Many Canadians I know applaude Obama for his integrity and sticking to his promise of affordable healthcare for every American!
RobinB022
reply to post by CALGARIAN
Many Canadians I know applaude Obama for his integrity and sticking to his promise of affordable healthcare for every American!
That's just it though.......he didn't keep that promise at all, and it's not affordable for most Americans. You have to read it to understand it.
CALGARIAN
Sure hope not!
It's a shaky transition period and many people are unhappy but I think forward to a decade where new, young, American kids look back in the history books and realize what Obama did was "the right thing to do!".
Many Canadians I know applaude Obama for his integrity and sticking to his promise of affordable healthcare for every American!
dukeofjive696969
Good luck on that happening, republicans have 0 chance to win the next presidential run, but you guys can keep on dreaming.
Even if obamacare is as bad as all the made up stories, reps still cant win the white house.
And no i aint a democrat