Supreme Court Ruling on Health Care

[ringil]

Stop complaining and pay your fair share. Its for the good of the country, comrade.

A chain is only as strong as it’s weakest link.

 

[Dawnia]

So let me get this straight- everyone is angry becaue the law says that people must be responsible and purchase medical insurance or be taxed to pay for the medical services that they will use.

I thought personal responsibility was a good thing? I thought people didn’t want their money going to others who should be paying for their own things? After all, nobody seems to like their money going to people on welfare, right? Why does everyone want to continue to pay for other people’s health care in the form of higher costs for services?

I was under the impression that the taxes go into the general fund to be spent as the government wishes.

 

[Swiss_Guy]

All those places have nationalized, universal health insurance, taxpayer-funded.

Not single payer though.

and I’m not against universal health care, but I am against Obamacare.

 

[Scott_Lafrance]

A chain is only as strong as it’s weakest link.

That’s a great observation. Are you planning on towing something?

 

[ringil]

It is not the years in your life that are of value.

It is the life in your years.

Norway has the highest index of life satisfaction in the world and one of the highest life expectancies.

 

[seekerz]

No, Obama did not “solve” it.

What Obama did was give some people the opportunity to shirk their charitable duties by pretending to solve it.

You can be sure that if Obamacare is allowed to stand and it were to fail that we would not hear JimR-OCDS admitting his mistake but, instead, demanding more political solutions to the lack of charity.

Political solutions to lack of charity? Are you serious? Charity is going to keep health care costs from bankrupting hardworking, responsible people who simply had the temerity to be human and susceptible to illness?

 

[colmywaykurtz]

If you don’t like it here in 'merica then MOVE OUT!!

I recently saw a bumper sticker that said “Don’t like government? Go to Somalia.”

 

[Scott_Lafrance]

I was under the impression that the taxes go into the general fund to be spent as the government wishes.

Yes, and the government has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are excellent stewards of the public’s money.

 

[ringil]

I already have land in Costa Rica, so my options are open.

I have never been there. Sounds lovely. On the beach?

 

[Scott_Lafrance]

I recently saw a bumper sticker that said “Don’t like government? Go to Somalia.”

I just bought a bumper stick that says “If you don’t like the government, dissolve it and form a new one”

 

[Swiss_Guy]

What about Poland or Israel?

Israel is too violent right now, although that would be cool. Poland is alright since it’s Catholic and by Germany, and what was Pomerania is now mainly in Poland (hehe, my biases are coming in now ).

 

[Scott_Lafrance]

I have never been there. Sounds lovely. On the beach?

Not divulging specifics. A few here have already reserved their spots on my banana farm.

 

[austenbosten]

If you don’t like it here in 'merica then MOVE OUT!!

Fine I might just do that and I will take my skills, labor and wealth with it…good luck funding your bloated nanny state with welfare recipients

Just remember the america you envision is not one based on the Founding Fathers, but Karl Marx

 

[Seeker1961]

I was under the impression that the taxes go into the general fund to be spent as the government wishes.

Where did you read that?

 

[Scott_Lafrance]

Fine I might just do that and I will take my skills, labor and wealth with it…good luck funding your bloated nanny state with welfare recipients

Costa Rica has no standing army and abortion and gay marriage are quite illegal.

 

[Scott_Lafrance]

Norway has the highest index of life satisfaction in the world and one of the highest life expectancies.

Maybe its because they are a very avid outdoor sports culture and eat alot of salmon. Health care may have nothing to do with it. In fact, the people with the longest lifespans tend to have the lowest need for a doctor.

 

[austenbosten]

Costa Rica has no standing army and abortion and gay marriage are quite illegal.

Either Costa Rica or Chile…they are pro-Christian, pro-Liberty, and pro-Capitalism

 

[_Abyssinia]

Cuba, Greece, United Arab Emirates, Cyprus have higher life expectancy than the US.

Most of the countries you mentioned the people have an outdoor lifestyle, with diets of fresh food and sunshine. Those things co tribute to he healthy lifestyle and longer life expectancy. Many Americans are overweight and have sedentary lifestyles.

if you want a creation between the American health care system without ObamaTax and lower life expectancy then you may have an argument.

You will see people come from the countries you mentioned, and from Canada and from European countries where they have socialised medicine come to the US for health care treatment, because they know in America you can best treatment in the world.

Britain has the NHS. If you were ill you would want to be in America, which has higher survival rates for stroke, cancer, heart disease for example.

What is your life expectancy when you are diagnosed with a condition in America compared to Britain or other countries with mixed health care systems? You are statistically better off with the American health care system.

 

[_Abyssinia]

Romney has raised $1.5 million dollars, 13500 plus donations since Supreme Court decision

twitter.com/andreamsaul/status/218412390948155394

 

[Havard]

Preventative healthcare, education, and screening are certainly within the scope of healthcare.

In fact it is much of the future of healthcare improvement. Prevention- not treatment is the key to improving our standing.

We have much more education in schools, and more free publicly available information to the entire public than ever, and yet people are more sedentary and eating worse.

While there are plenty of reasons people continue to spend inordinate amounts of time on the couch and/or consume super-sized meals, I don’t believe any of them are “because they don’t know it’s unhealthy.”