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subterranean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-12-10 09:57 AM
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1. I wouldn't mind a mandate for non-profit or government-run insurance.
Every universal health care system in the world has mandatory participation. They wouldn't work otherwise.

The main problem I have with this bill is that it mandates FOR-PROFIT insurance. If I'm going to be required to buy insurance, I want to know that my money is being used for health care, not $20 million bonuses for the CEO, dividends for the company's investors, or an army of claims adjusters whose mission is to deny payment for my health care.
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  -an analogy of my objection to the mandate currently in the HCR Lerkfish  Mar-12-10 09:03 AM   #0 
  - I wouldn't mind a mandate for non-profit or government-run insurance.  subterranean   Mar-12-10 09:57 AM   #1 
  - exactly, what a good point.  Lerkfish   Mar-12-10 10:03 AM   #2 
  - Then you believe the problem  kctim   Mar-12-10 10:07 AM   #3 
     - its important to you to pin down what I believe.  Lerkfish   Mar-12-10 10:11 AM   #4 
        - Important? No  kctim   Mar-12-10 10:41 AM   #11 
           - nope, nice try.  Lerkfish   Mar-12-10 10:49 AM   #12 
              - That is not what you first stated  kctim   Mar-12-10 11:05 AM   #13 
                 - by saying the "mandate ... of this bill" its directly implied  Lerkfish   Mar-12-10 12:48 PM   #17 
                    - Oh brother  kctim   Mar-12-10 01:37 PM   #19 
                       - no problemo, my bad as well  Lerkfish   Mar-12-10 02:07 PM   #20 
  - Every universal health care system in the world is funded by (progressive) taxation.  inna   Mar-12-10 10:14 AM   #6 
  - Not all are.  subterranean   Mar-12-10 10:28 AM   #9 
     - Non-single-payer universal health care systems are still funded via taxation,  inna   Mar-12-10 11:43 AM   #15 
        - Yes, and I'm near the age and income range that will be gouged the most.  subterranean   Mar-12-10 12:37 PM   #16 
           - Here's a good old thread on "affordability":  inna   Mar-12-10 12:57 PM   #18 
  - And the implicit logic--that the gov't can decide how much of my income to allocate as profit  Romulox   Mar-12-10 10:17 AM   #8 
  - If the government  Abq_Sarah   Mar-12-10 11:30 AM   #14 
  - That's the calculation  el_bryanto   Mar-12-10 10:11 AM   #5 
  - I was gonna say they are more like  hfojvt   Mar-12-10 10:34 AM   #10 
  - One other really important thing that's been overlooked by our sycophant media is medical privacy  court jester   Mar-12-10 10:15 AM   #7 
 

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