Jim Morin’s drawings won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1996. He shared the Pulitzer in 1983 with other members of the Miami Herald editorial board, and was a Pulitzer finalist in 1977 and 1990. His work is syndicated internationally by the New York Times/CWS Syndicate.
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braindead08 said, 10 months ago
People of Massachusetts have had Romney/Obama care for several years now. Do they like it, or is there a big effort to repeal?
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I have heard reports that 98% of Massachusetts children have health insurance. Is that a bad thing?
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Other than the mandatory part of the ACA, I have not read, on these boards, a SINGLE argument against a particular aspect of the act.
Sr NONliberal said, 10 months ago
If you read earlier speeches from the President, you will find that the goal is single payer, aka government run health care.
But there is more. Don’t you see where this will go? Just like helmets and seat belts, the gov will use this to regulate the food you eat, the amount and type of daily exercise you take part in, it is a regulation bonanza! The guise of free healthcare is silly coming from a government that has the worst schools, horrible roads, largest deficits.. Do you realize that the whole health care mess is going to get worse because the A CA does not control costs?
NebulousRikulau
said, 10 months ago
@Sr NONliberal
There are 3 ways to cut costs in the Health Care system.
Either you cut benefits, and everybody’s already complaining that “Rationing” health care is unAmerican. (except that we already do it. If you don’t pay you don’t get care).
OR
You cut the PROFITS. Big Pharm and the Insurance companies won’t stand for that.
OR
Get the lawyers out of the system. Reduce malpracice insurance.
HA!! Yeah, Right!!
mikefive said, 10 months ago
@NebulousRikulau
We’ve already got doc’s that won’t take on any new medicare patients because of the cuts in reimbursement. I guess that’s cutting costs by the medicare administrators.
Bob James said, 10 months ago
Single payer is NOT government-run healthcare. That doesn’t even make sense. Unless the government is administrating the hospitals, directly paying the staff, supplying the clinics, and collecting the patients’ payments, they’re not running healthcare. Medicare is a single-payer system. If you were to extend Medicare to cover everyone, that would be single-payer, and the government isn’t running any healthcare to provide Medicare.
motivemagus said, 10 months ago
@braindead08
There is NO effort to repeal Romneycare in Massachusetts. Even Scott “I drive a truck” Brown won’t touch it.
That’s because it works fine, thank you very much. It’s not as efficient as single-payer would be, but it’s all right for a Republican plan.
Bruce4671 said, 10 months ago
Correct me if I am wrong (oh I didn’t have to say THAT did I ) BUT:
Isn’t medicare paid for by the payroll tax that Obama has given everyone a break on? AND, hasn’t the Government reduced the amount they will cover for medicare and plan to cut that even more? IS medicare the model for a single payer system?
SO if the government is in charge of the checkbook and dictates what a medical organization can make for a procedure doesn’t that put them in control of your health care if you are covered under medicare?
That is why medicare patients have to have “supplemental” policies to cover what medicare does not. SO it IS NOT a single payer system since medicare patients pay for an addition policy and then have to cover what BOTH of those systems does not out of pocket.
The cost of the so called Affordable Care Act has increased by 1.7 trillion dollars over the 10 year period to 2/7 trillion dollars. The more you look at the law, the more of the provisions that get implemented the higher the cost goes, the more complex the regulations, the more people needed to enforce the regulations and the more taxes have to be raised on the very people that can not afford to have health insurance and so choose not to because they are young and healthy.
Additionally, the government will be given access to YOUR records to review and make decision about your lifestyle and what treatment is available to you based on the report from a doctor that must rely on meeting the standard of success set up by a panel and applied on a one size fits all basis.
It will be a cluster-f..k of epic proportions run by a corrupt bunch of politicians looking for what they can get for you from the lowest bidder while diverting the rest of the cash to their favorite pork project. Just like every other government run project in history.
Prove to me how I am wrong.
Ms. Ima said, 10 months ago
The problem is his refusal to buy any kind of health insurance. Too bad the entitlement mentality has taken over the country. Watch it bankrupt America like Europe.
Kylie2112 said, 10 months ago
@Ms. Ima
Norway and Sweden have some of the highest standards of living in the world, even though they have high taxes (that benefit the population, not corporate interests). Want to go to another successful democracy without a full, national, and FREE (you pay your taxes, you get your medicine) health care system? Good luck.
Jase99 said, 10 months ago
“Just like helmets and seat belts, the gov will use this to regulate the food you eat, the amount and type of daily exercise you take part in, it is a regulation bonanza! The guise of free healthcare is silly coming from a government that has the worst schools, horrible roads, largest deficits.. Do you realize that the whole health care mess is going to get worse because the A CA does not control costs?”
And then they’re going to hire thugs to go around kicking everyone’s puppies! They must be stopped!!
Roads and schools are largely the responsibility of the states and local government. Our previous governor, a Republican, cut funding for education. He also cut funding for roads and bridge inspections after a major bridge collapsed many people were killed or seriously insured.
As for regulating the food you eat, food already is regulated. The FDA issues regulations to insure the food you eat isn’t rancid and won’t give you food poisoning. You know, regulations that some people would do away with because they “stifle” corporations? If you’re truely worried about your diminishing personal freedoms, why don’t you start with the personal freedom you lost with the Patriot Act?
Mephistopholes
said, 10 months ago
@Jase99
I agree that we lost freedoms under the patriot act that I would very much like to get back. But it appears that your only argument is “Well Republicans did it too”.
But runaway federal legislation has to stop. It’s inefficient and invasive.
They can’t afford to enforce all the laws they enact now. Why should we allow them to create more.
What’s really broken is that the Federal Government doesn’t trust the states to manage their own people. And the Supreme Court has never seen a Federal power grab that they didn’t like.
rightisright said, 10 months ago
@Sr NONliberal
Good sir, they do not see the danger, for they are liberals. They look to imploding Europe for inspiration, instead of simply moving there.
lonecat said, 10 months ago
@Dogbert the Great
I have health insurance. It’s provided by the provincial government, funded out of tax revenues. Everyone has it. No freeloaders here.
STLDan said, 10 months ago
@Sr NONliberal
Specualtion dreamed up in the head of a right wing zealot who educates himself watching FoxNews… no thanks I’ll pass on your advice. It seems you prefer things going back to the exact refernce this comic stated. Just like all the other republicas who decry the President’s healtcare system yet offer ZERO alternatives.
dtroutma
said, 10 months ago
Morin again “nails it”.