Article about the alleged "safety net"

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by Danzig

again, like i said, it's a bad law. i think i made myself clear on that...but then, i thought i was clear about people begrudging assistance to poor people and saying they're christian.


it's kind of funny tho...so many people said 'well, if everyone would be responsible and buy insurance, it would be better...'. now they have to, and it's wrong too. there's no pleasing some people.

i wonder if those against any help in getting insurance went back thru the history books, and took out all the anti-social security, anti-medicare and anti-unemployment screeds and just 'cut and pasted' them to fit today's 'end of the u.s. as we know it' topic du jour.

See I don't think many people are against the idea of getting insurance more affordable. The difference is that this is the same old government program retread - take more from people already paying so they can supplement others. That's what people object to.

If you could buy insurance in any state - if a NY resident liked a Nevada plan, he should be able to buy it. Increase competition by removing barriers - not taking over the industry with government run "exchanges".

Allow flexible savings accounts to accrue and not be a "use it or lose it" proposition. Someday, as you have more and more good years, you could at least partially self-insure.

When you buy insurance of any kind, you only need the amount that mitigates risk you are uneasy with. This is why people bought catastrophic-event only plans. A young guy who breaks his finger playing basketball can probably handle the bill, but if he gets in a car accident he wants to be covered since it's a lot more money.

But there's the thing - Obama and those of his party stroll in telling you "You can keep your plan." Damn straight - because you, Mr. President, should have NO meddling in my affairs.

When you have an open market, you have the option of saying no - and that is the biggest power in all of capitalism. If enough people do not buy a product at an inflated cost, the price comes down. That power has been lost by use of the unconstitutional federal mandate. Therefore, prices will skyrocket due to both the supplementing of others for insurance, AND opportunism on the part of the insurance companies. That will happen also - but strictly because the government is helping them do that by not allowing the free market to work, specifically by forcing every American to be a customer no matter how high the price is.