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Post by clifburnett on Dec 13, 2010 12:13:14 GMT -6
Today a court ruled that mandatory health care requiring some form of paid health insurance premium was unconstitutional. The same concept worked on motor vehicles(liability insurance)but does not work on insurance on one's body.
Make to the drawing board fellas!!
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Post by Arch on Dec 13, 2010 19:33:37 GMT -6
You beat me to it. I was going to post something on the judge's ruling.
My take on it? I think the government knows that the current bill is unconstitutional; and will use it to push for the public option or single payer. How? Interstate commerce! If the public option or a single-payer health insurance plan is on the table, it is across state lines. If the government were to allow health insurance to be sold across state lines, it also becomes interstate commerce. See where this is going?.
All they have to do is adopt universal Medicare, and pay for it with taxes, or fees, or some kind of permit, and it is legal. I believe it can be done.
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Post by loupgarou on Dec 26, 2010 10:22:27 GMT -6
With the new makeup of Congress, how practical is a revision to a single-payor, government-administrated system? They couldn't manage that with a Democratic majority. How can they do it now?
Look. If you read the Preamble to the Constitution, you see lofty aspirations like ESTABLISH JUSTICE, PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE. What do those phrases mean? That a high percentage of American citizens cannot pay for top quality healthcare?
But that butts up against financial realities. We can't continue social security and Medicare in the form it has taken. How are we going to enlarge government bureaucracy and do this? Yes, overall, it would be cheaper in the long run to eliminate private health insurance in favor of neutrally adminisered government=managed health insurance, to force doctors and hospitals to compete in terms of cost and quality, but attempting to do that is awesomely difficult.
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