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Night-Gaunt49 said, 11 months ago
Cuts to the chase doesn’t he?
ARodney said, 11 months ago
Well, the GOP is putting itself forward as the party of death. Carlson is only calling it like it is.
Eryx
said, 11 months ago
@ARodney
Look at all the GOP-run states that are going to opt out and then shrink Medicaid.
antiquetracman
said, 11 months ago
yeah, tell me that when everything is rationed and your loved one can’t get the surgery needed because she is too old and someone younger needs it. You are so full of it your eyes must be brown.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 11 months ago
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The funny thing is that Roberts upheld the mandate that the Republicans are for. They were the ones who put it in in the first place so this is all kinds of weird.
Ms. Ima said, 11 months ago
Just don’t die before 2014 when this bill takes effect.
braindead08 said, 11 months ago
If this law is so horrible, wouldn’t the Republicans try to get it into effect before the election?
What do people in Massachusetts think of the law?
rightisright said, 11 months ago
The funny thing is that Roberts upheld the mandate that the Republicans are for. They were the ones who put it in in the first place so this is all kinds of weird.
Even had the Heritage Foundation brought the case before the Supremes and not Obama, it should’ve been ruled Unconstitutional. At no time in our history has government had the power to force citizens to buy a product—perhaps with the exception of muskets in Colonial wartime—until now. Freedom has lost. The rest is semantics.
MortyForTyrant said, 11 months ago
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Chicago thugs… Are you claiming this as a fact or are you using the usual fear and insinuation used by the likes of Stalin, Hitler and Boehner?
michael
said, 11 months ago
@antiquetracman
It’s amazing how many people don’t bother to check the facts. There’s absolutely no rationing in the Affordable Care Act . The only rationing going on was before the act when insurance companies would deny service because of pre-existing conditions.
meetinthemiddle said, 11 months ago
@michael
To be fair, if there’s going to be any cost control – no matter who implements it – there will be rationing. The right is lying when they say the private insurance system isn’t doing it, and people on the left have to admit there will be some if there really is going to be cost control. The only hope is that there will be more conscious thought going into it now.
The insurance companies do it ad hoc, trying to renege on policy holders that get sick when they think they can get away with it and trying to keep anyone who has been sick from getting into the pool. They have batteries of claims operators trained only with the word “no”. They put all sorts of catch-22s in place to try and make people give up.
There is probably some trim that can be had with a Maryland-type approach (setting price norms for various procedures so an appendectomy at hospital A will cost roughly the same as at hospital B and not have a couple order of magnitude difference), but ultimately rationing is, was, and always be with us in some form or another.
meetinthemiddle said, 11 months ago
@rightisright
If the Heritage Foundation and Newt thought it should be unconstitutional, why would they have proposed it in the first place?
It’s interesting that Roberts had to invent the reason to uphold it; nobody on the other side of the bench was arguing that it was a tax.
Probably the most extended period of govt-dictated consumption would have been during WWII, when all kinds of materials were rationed and govt controlled.
And then under Nixon there were price and wage controls.
Craig Linder
said, 11 months ago
In response to the discussion about who was for what when. It all boils down to this and this alone for the current crop of Republicans.
I with it weren’t the case, but ever since the Soviet Union fell apart, we’ve had no external enemy to unite us, so the more pugnacious and authoritarian among us have turned their attention inward.
Me against my brother; my brother and me against my cousin; Me, my brother, and my cousin against the stranger
ahab
said, 11 months ago
Republicans show their cruel side again. 360 degrees.
Zuhlamon said, 11 months ago
@Craig Linder
Republican priorities: (1) the Party [do what you are told] , (2) the corporate Donors [oligarchy is good], (3) Xenophobic God & Guns (kill the poor, gays, abortions, liberals, planned parenthood, etc), (4 & 5) Constituents and Country (in that order)