Comments on: Supreme Court Decision on Health Care Will Weigh Heavily in 2012 Elections

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:29:55 +0000

“They should be rejoicing that now everyone has to pay something.” ??? Really? How will people who are on assistance now, (because they do not have the money) pay for their own health care? Welfare is the problem in this country. Many deserving people need it, but there are way more undeserving low lives who do not. My husband has a great job, but is not offered health benefits. I have researched many insurance companies for a family plan. What a joke. I am against Obamacare. I do not want to be forced to have insurance..and if I do not have insurance by a certain date, I will be fined? That’s extortion! Sometimes it is cheaper to pay for an office visit. I know because I do not have insurance, the payment is less than if I did have insurance. It does not make sense. Insurance companies, I do agree, need some change.

By: brobamas/bill/stinks

brobamas/bill/stinks — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:46:39 +0000

why should all of america have to abide by this bill and brobama and his people not? people on here are saying its constitutional for the whole country to have to abide by a bill that forces everyone to pay for health care when not everyone wants it. yet obama will not have to have HIS heath care plan whats that say?

By: Searambler

Searambler — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:05:45 +0000

The dems have been dumbing down Americans for decades.
Posted by: Zman | November 15, 2011, 1:17 pm.

How so? Please be specific.

By: Searambler

Searambler — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:04:50 +0000

Actually, I got the states wrong. It’s not 26%, but rather 26 states that don’t want 0bamacare and are trying to opt-out of the dictate.
Posted by: TexBork | November 15, 2011, 1:11 pm.

Tex, Obama said a few months ago that any state may opt out of the new health care law. As long as they come up with a plan that covers as many people for the same amount of money, or less. New Hampshire is developing their own plan, for universal coverage and a single payer system. They are the only ones so far to take Obama up on the offer…………..

By: Zman

Zman — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:17:19 +0000

This so called healthcare law is unconstitutional. Read the Constitution. The dems have been dumbing down Americans for decades. They now have the Ringmaster Obama in place to try and make this law. They will fail.

By: TexBork

TexBork — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:11:58 +0000

Actually, I got the states wrong. It’s not 26%, but rather 26 states that don’t want 0bamacare and are trying to opt-out of the dictate.

By: TexBork

TexBork — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:49:06 +0000

A majority of the people (52%) don’t want the health care scam. This is closely followed at the state level of 26% opposed to that steaming pile of legislation as well. If politics is cast aside, the law is unConstitutional. Only political leverage allows it to bypass the Constitution by reinterpreting it into a document of positive liberties instead of negative liberties. As such, the party who is supporting the notion that the government can force us to purchase anything it wants by decree in a fascist manner, that party will not fare well in the next round of elections. Period.

By: tmferretti

tmferretti — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:53:05 +0000

II see where more Americans now approve of the Affordable Health Care Act than don’t. Most of the provisions won’t go into effect until 2014 where it will have even more support. One of the republican’s favorite issues is people freeloading off the system. We now pay for health care for people who don’t pay anything. They should be rejoicing that now everyone has to pay something. Instead they follow the confederacy of dunces tea party line which is bought and paid for by the health insurance industry.

Who knows what will happen? Don’t forget this is the same Supreme Court that ruled that stopping corporate donations from influencing our elections was a violation of their 1st amendment rights. I wonder if this applies to the Mafia?

By: charlie

charlie — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:52:41 +0000

• ObamaCare is the government’s biggest attack on economic inequality in three decades.
• ObamaCare contains $670 billion in tax increases.
• Tax increases hurt women because they discourage job creation — more women than men exit and enter the labor force.
• Tax structure already discourages married women from working.
• ObamaCare includes at least 14 different tax increases that target taxpayers earning less than $250,000 per year.
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) estimates (available, but not made public before the vote on the bill) indicate nobody knows what ObamaCare will cost.
• The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports penalties amounting to $1,000 per person.
• Fines will total more than $4 billion between 2017 and 2019.
• More than half of Americans are confused about the law (55 percent) and its impact (56 percent)
• ObamaCare has $2 trillion in higher taxes, doubles the debt in five years, and triples the debt in 10 years.
This takes away Americans freedom It also gives the president and staff better medical htan they are forcing us to have. This was bribery and break of constitution and Amendments. Burn the Obamacare health bill-package.

By: Librarian53

Librarian53 — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:48:51 +0000

This is about politics and about the self-interests of the health insurance industry.
For 60 years the Democrats have been trying to give consumers protections from the excesses of the health insurance industry. Even small, empathetic changes were fought tooth and nail by most Republicans.
The Affordable Care Act provides so many good consumer protections. It limits the greediest impulses of the health insurance industry. One example is in 2014 the insurance companies will have to spend 80 to 85% of our premiums on medical bills for their customers. That leaves them with 15 to 20% for overhead and profit. Compare that with the 30 to 40% that they spend on overhead and profit now and you see why they are willing to spend millions of dollars to defeat this legislation.
Ask yourself why this industry is fighting so hard to kill legislation that is guaranteeing them millions of new customers? It is because they have it so good now, while 45,000 Americans die each year because they couldn’t afford insurance.