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gorfle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:35 PM Original message |
"everyone must buy health insurance" |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
1. Are you not a tax payer? |
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kiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:43 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. You might want to reread the OP: |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:46 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. You are not going to get that. You will have to buy insurance. |
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Jakes Progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:13 PM Response to Reply #7 |
20. You're still not getting the point. |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:36 PM Response to Reply #20 |
31. I get the point. read |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:37 PM Response to Reply #31 |
46. No you do not get it. |
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Jakes Progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 08:12 PM Response to Reply #31 |
48. A little libertarian for me. |
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RufusTFirefly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:05 PM Response to Reply #31 |
76. There are many flavors of Kool-Aid. I assume you've tried them all |
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maryf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:15 PM Response to Reply #31 |
78. some call it Single Payer health CARE vs. Insurance |
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TheWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 04:04 AM Response to Reply #31 |
96. ..... |
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gorfle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:16 PM Response to Reply #20 |
52. I don't mind paying for insurance. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:55 PM Response to Reply #7 |
34. Why do the wealthy people get all the breaks? They get the capital gains cuts, |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:30 PM Response to Reply #34 |
43. Evidently someone does get the pony. We want it back. n/t |
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enlightenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:59 PM Response to Reply #7 |
37. Umm. Why not? |
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gorfle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:13 PM Response to Reply #7 |
49. OK.... |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:22 PM Response to Reply #7 |
55. This is how it's done in most developed countries. It's not a damn pony. |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:16 PM Response to Reply #7 |
69. Yes we absolutely should pass it off on the wealthy |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:52 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. Bingo I want health care NOT insurance. |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:49 PM Response to Reply #12 |
32. This is directly from the OP |
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gorfle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:26 PM Response to Reply #32 |
56. But pay who? |
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ibegurpard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:26 PM Response to Reply #32 |
57. "you are not paying full cost for the care" |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:56 PM Response to Reply #12 |
35. Me too!! nt |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:32 PM Response to Reply #2 |
80. a) single payer insurance is still insurance. |
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gorfle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
51. I don't want a dual system. |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
3. That's what I want too but I don't think there is not enough support for it in Congress. |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
4. No, but everybody must get stoned |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:44 PM Original message |
Single payer tax funded program NEVER on the table |
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obliviously (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
5. I have been trying to tell people this |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:45 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. There will be subsidies |
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regnaD kciN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:56 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. And, based on the sliding scale in the House plan... |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:01 PM Original message |
that wiil push me over the edge.... |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
40. don't you already have insurance with your job? |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:35 PM Response to Reply #40 |
45. yes I do-- I'm assuming that will change after the health care reform bill passes.... |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:19 PM Response to Reply #45 |
53. You're right, of course. Sadly, the backers of single-payer haven't been beating the drum publicly |
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Gwendolyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
72. If you're a public employee you have insurance. Why would you need the public option then? |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:00 AM Response to Reply #72 |
101. see #45 |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:04 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. 12% is too much, agreed |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:01 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. Then it will be like all sliding scales in this country. Bloody useless until you bankrupt yourself |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:34 PM Response to Reply #5 |
44. I can't afford it either. |
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InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:26 PM Response to Reply #44 |
70. Same here ... no way I can afford anything extra. |
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Cronopio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 02:50 AM Response to Reply #70 |
91. "I much prefer to see to my own health care as much as possible, and take my chances." |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 03:02 AM Response to Reply #91 |
93. I would prefer that the poster have health care.. |
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Cronopio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 05:00 PM Response to Reply #93 |
107. If you don't have the money, a coverage mandate mandates that you get subsidies equal to the cost.nt |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 06:07 PM Response to Reply #107 |
108. You'll have to be all but homeless to get any subsidy.. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 03:03 AM Response to Reply #91 |
94. Dupe, self delete.. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 03:20 AM Response to Reply #91 |
95. Dupe, self delete.. |
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PretzelWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 02:28 AM Response to Reply #5 |
87. wahhhhh!!!!!!!!!! cry me a river. |
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Brigid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
8. I now have a history of heart problems. |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:49 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I think the legislation is taking care of issues like that. |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:01 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. From the House website: |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:06 PM Response to Reply #8 |
19. That has been a key point for months |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
47. For you, this bill is better than nothing, I admit. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:21 PM Response to Reply #8 |
54. Supposedly, existing conditions will no longer be legal. |
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Brigid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 07:01 AM Response to Reply #54 |
99. I think your sig says it all. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 03:55 PM Response to Reply #99 |
105. The "time" hasn't come yet.... only what, 40 years since MLK said that.... |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:38 PM Response to Reply #8 |
60. And forget about lymphoma, like me. |
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regnaD kciN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
9. You're talking about single-payer... |
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gorfle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:35 PM Response to Reply #9 |
58. What?!? |
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iris27 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:57 PM Response to Reply #9 |
64. Well, that should effectively end Republican worries of the public option taking off and |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
10. It's about a mandate to have health insurance. |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
13. we all "buy" into the pool, to make it viable (with our tax money) |
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regnaD kciN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:15 PM Response to Reply #13 |
22. Public Option = $5K for individuals, $10K for families |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:13 PM Response to Reply #22 |
39. So I am going to go from paying $1200 a year to $5000, my wife from $0 to $5000. Great plan. |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 12:39 PM Response to Reply #39 |
104. no of course not--if your current plan is better, you stay with that. Most would save money n/t |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:17 PM Response to Reply #104 |
110. Of course that is until my city drops it's coverage. |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 04:42 PM Response to Reply #110 |
114. then you sign on to a public option--it's supposed to happen that way, like a |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 08:45 PM Response to Reply #114 |
117. Who's arguing otherwise? |
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gorfle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:38 PM Response to Reply #22 |
59. This sucks for me. |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 04:51 PM Response to Reply #59 |
106. That's my point employers unless mandated to do otherwise will drop coverage. |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
18. I don't want "health insurance", I want health care. |
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Cronopio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 02:20 AM Response to Reply #18 |
86. Don't get too hung up on the term "insurance". |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
21. That's the Mitt Romney approach, which is sort of like |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
23. Repeat after me... |
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liberalpragmatist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:07 PM Response to Reply #23 |
38. Also, most systems require some premiums by the individual |
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Uzybone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:20 PM Response to Reply #23 |
41. +1000 for a healthy dose of reality |
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Cronopio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 02:39 AM Response to Reply #23 |
88. How the cost is assessed isn't that important. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 06:29 AM Response to Reply #23 |
98. Leaving US insurance companies as is is NOTHING like any European system. |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 11:18 AM Response to Reply #98 |
102. No. Not in 'All other developed countries' - that's simply not so. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 08:06 PM Response to Reply #102 |
109. What are the odds that we will sit on private insurers in that way? |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 11:03 PM Response to Reply #109 |
111. If you want it bad enough it will happen. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 04:38 AM Response to Reply #111 |
113. If wanting it badly will make it happen-- |
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ipaint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 04:53 PM Response to Reply #102 |
115. In all but the dutch case they are non-profit |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
24. If this is some sort of mandatory RomneyHillarycare bullshit, then they can keep it. |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:18 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. What provision for health care do you presently have? n/t |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:21 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. I have no health care at all at the moment, being unemployed. |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:35 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Under the House draft, you'd be covered by Medicaid, unless... |
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ipaint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:55 PM Response to Reply #24 |
33. As a long time uninsured person I feel as you do |
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hippywife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:23 PM Response to Original message |
27. That's what I want, too, but |
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Brigid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:30 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. I sometimes try to imagine . . . |
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hippywife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:32 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. And to think that, by law, they are not |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
36. The price of your coverage.. |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:28 PM Response to Original message |
42. I am with you. I need health care, not insurance. n/t |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
50. What gives? It's called "public option". Single payer wasn't allowed by Baucus, remember? |
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Kansas Wyatt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
61. In case you didn't know... You live in the Corporations of America |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:47 PM Response to Reply #61 |
62. Guess we should just force the doctors & hospitals to work for free? |
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Kansas Wyatt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:54 PM Response to Reply #62 |
63. Are you in favor of 'For Profit' Death Merchants? |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 09:57 PM Response to Reply #63 |
65. No, that's why I'm willing to PAY for a PUBLIC option |
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Kansas Wyatt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:03 PM Response to Reply #65 |
66. With the way they are going to set it up... |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:08 PM Response to Reply #66 |
67. Is that why the insurance representatives are against a public option at all cost |
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ibegurpard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:15 PM Response to Reply #67 |
68. Maybe but you don't START with what they can live with |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:30 PM Response to Reply #68 |
71. Maybe they should be asking for more |
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Kansas Wyatt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:31 PM Response to Reply #67 |
79. Insurance Companies do NOTHING for Health Care. |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 11:48 AM Response to Reply #79 |
103. Agreed - I absolutely despise the insurance companies |
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Boddingham (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
73. You have to pay for it, or the fed cannot tax your health care benefits. |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
74. It's a snow job, they are pushing it like hell, but it's a scam. |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
75. It's gravy for the Insurance companies -- Mandated Insurance |
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RufusTFirefly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:08 PM Response to Reply #75 |
77. I'm certain it's just a coincidence. An unintended consequence. |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 01:57 AM Response to Reply #77 |
85. Because they are in collusion. |
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prayin4rain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 02:48 AM Response to Reply #75 |
90. I have never thought of car insurance like that.... it's true!!! That's terrible. n/t |
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Cronopio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 02:58 AM Response to Reply #75 |
92. There is no mandate to buy private insurance. |
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hansberrym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
81. I thought the whole idea was Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness |
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WillowTree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 12:00 AM Response to Reply #81 |
112. So, if you opt not to pay (either by premiums or taxes) for health care coverage... |
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Just-plain-Kathy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
82. "everyone must buy health insurance"...Why are insurance companies still in the picture? |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 12:41 AM Response to Reply #82 |
83. Just wait until we have to bail out the Insurance industry |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 07:05 AM Response to Reply #82 |
100. Of course. It's certainly not going to be arranged to simply provide humane, altruistic care. No way |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
84. I'll tell you what gives |
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Lagomorph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 02:47 AM Response to Original message |
89. Some policies don't cover... |
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mp9200 (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 04:43 AM Response to Original message |
97. Ask the insurance companies/the rich |
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lesliewhitebird (28 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
116. Thank you!!! I just posted the same thing on another thread! |
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