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Uncle Joe

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12. You're correct context does matter

Tue Apr 3, 2012, 04:59 PM

Apr 2012

1. All of those things you list will be in jeopardy because the mandate and 1/2 trillion in tax money being sent to the for profit "health" insurance industry will make their lobby even more "incredibly powerful" (Potter's description) than it already is.

"1) No life time caps.
2) No pre-existing conditions
3) No dropping you when you get sick."

They will use the Citizens United decision to flood upcoming elections with unlimited issue advocacy money to enable sympathetic politicians to power, people that will immediately work to undercut, erode and/or eliminate those positives you list but they damn sure won't touch the mandate; the goose that lays the Golden Eggs.

On top of using Citizens United to enable corporate loving puppets to power, the for profit "health" insurance industry will lobby and bribe future Congresses until the cows come home with their new found wealth and the American People will be mandated to pay for the fight against themselves.

Those good things you list are the Trojan Horse and the mandate/tax money/captured customers are the hidden Greeks, so wheel that baby in here and admire it.

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Wake the fuck up! WH:Individual mandate conceived of by the Heritage Foundation (VIDEO) [View all] Poll_Blind Apr 2012 OP

I can dig it gratuitous Apr 2012 #1

Nixon started the EPA ... let's kill it!!!! JoePhilly Apr 2012 #2

Can't muster anything more substantive? Poll_Blind Apr 2012 #3

Why? Claiming that an idea is bad because the GOP suggested it first is no more substaintial. JoePhilly Apr 2012 #7

Riiiiight. It's a great idea that the Repukes just happened to come up with, and ran with until... Poll_Blind Apr 2012 #9

Pesky facts...nt SidDithers Apr 2012 #11

hey sid, i just found a SCTV Christmas special DVD. vaht? must havebeen an old roomates.. i'll take dionysus Apr 2012 #14

Good stuff... SidDithers Apr 2012 #15

It's a bad idea because it's a bad idea. girl gone mad Apr 2012 #13

The ACA let's "young people" stay on their parents plan until they are 26. JoePhilly Apr 2012 #23

If Nixon's EPA had been a mandate for the people to send money to the polluters, we should. Uncle Joe Apr 2012 #5

The point of course ... JoePhilly Apr 2012 #8

You're correct context does matter Uncle Joe Apr 2012 #12

And if they overturn ACA, the GOP will claim that is the precedent for claiming that JoePhilly Apr 2012 #24

To governmental non-profit agencies, that's an entirely different animal. Uncle Joe Apr 2012 #26

That does not matter. JoePhilly Apr 2012 #29

That's not true, social security is "uniform" mandating the purchase Uncle Joe Apr 2012 #31

Of course it was. woo me with science Apr 2012 #4

Yes. It's a gift to the insurance companies. We knew that. aquart Apr 2012 #6

I agree that the individual mandate was a disaster from the beginning Xyzse Apr 2012 #10

YAY! Lets all divebomb the ER's and make someone else pay for it! FarLeftFist Apr 2012 #16

Thanks for trying. Hell Hath No Fury Apr 2012 #17

Hooray bipartisanship! nt OnyxCollie Apr 2012 #18

Here are ProSense Apr 2012 #19

I'm awake. progressoid Apr 2012 #20

I believe the repukes; at least those in power, are playing br-er rabbit, Uncle Joe Apr 2012 #22

Keep saying it! WHEN CRABS ROAR Apr 2012 #21

but now since the Democrats bought into it, all of a sudden it became a grand idea! quinnox Apr 2012 #25

This has been discussed here ad nauseam. AtomicKitten Apr 2012 #27

Did they conceive of not allowing those with pre-existing conditions to be booted from insurance mzmolly Apr 2012 #28

Thank you for posting this ArcticFox Apr 2012 #30

I'm not worried abelenkpe Apr 2012 #32

Still on the fence davidthegnome Apr 2012 #33