I'm not informed enough to comment on most of this, but can someone explain that last line to me?
Aemon Send a noteboard - 08/06/2011 11:25:49 PM
...persons who show up at a hospital seeking treatment could be required to buy insurance on the spot.
I don't understand how this makes sense. If someone shows up at a hospital with no insurance, they're required to pay for their care, are they not? Obviously a lot of them are unable to do so, but calling the fee "insurance" instead of "hospital bill" won't change that fact. If it's simply a matter of a dollar amount (maybe they can afford insurance payments, but not the entirety of their bill), why not just have hospitals work out payments of whatever the person can afford? And don't they already do that?
Anyway, I guess I just don't follow this from an economic sense. If insurance payments are $100 per month, and a hospital bill is $1000, how is forcing someone to enroll in a $100 per month insurance program any different than forcing them to pay $100 per month towards their hospital bill?
ObamaCare's Legal Death Spiral Continues.....great news for America! 
- 08/06/2011 10:04:24 PM
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- 08/06/2011 10:04:24 PM
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I'm not informed enough to comment on most of this, but can someone explain that last line to me?
- 08/06/2011 11:25:49 PM
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just a guess but
- 08/06/2011 11:40:44 PM
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Yeah, and I guess that's what I was missing (see my response to Tom).
- 09/06/2011 07:13:00 AM
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A lot of the debate from the centered around how many of those people there are.
- 10/06/2011 01:15:19 AM
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"...the government mandate to have health insurance was unlike any law in American history"...
- 09/06/2011 05:24:56 AM
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wait....
- 09/06/2011 04:34:13 PM
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Guess what the "I" in FICA is; the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program is insurance
- 10/06/2011 12:34:04 AM
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if you want to opt out just work for a local government
- 09/06/2011 06:01:06 PM
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a few high profile cases does not equal "most" in any sense of the word *NM*
- 10/06/2011 02:38:26 AM
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Actually, there's an even more relevant example.
- 09/06/2011 08:01:18 PM
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That's the best link I've ever seen posted anywhere on the internet. *NM*
- 09/06/2011 08:26:02 PM
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That's a very flawed example
- 09/06/2011 09:06:24 PM
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Did you read the Act itself?
- 10/06/2011 04:04:39 PM
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Yes, did you get the 'foriegn port' part of sentence, or did you stop reading after the comma?
- 10/06/2011 06:11:27 PM
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Re: Yes, did you get the 'foriegn port' part of sentence, or did you stop reading after the comma?
- 10/06/2011 06:54:29 PM
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It might help if you clarified what your point is
- 10/06/2011 08:05:30 PM
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besides it was still just a condition for a specific job not a blanket requirement for breathing
- 10/06/2011 08:36:07 PM
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In other words, this is as "unprecedented" as filibustering Bush judicial nominees (i.e. it's not).
- 10/06/2011 12:55:17 AM
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Oh well. Living in a shit hole country is something I love and a chance to change that is BS.
- 12/06/2011 05:21:25 PM
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