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72 Absurd Items ObamaCare Requires Your Health Insurance to Cover
Conservative HQ ^ | 11/08/13 | Ben Hart

Posted on 11/11/2013 5:28:25 PM PST by xzins

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To: Chewbarkah

Dummies will still blame the evil Republicans regardless. At least I have one convert at work. He’s all quiet now about Obamacare.


41 posted on 11/11/2013 6:40:38 PM PST by USAF80
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To: rockinqsranch

While I agree with you that we should always question their motives, I think it’s important for our fellow citizens to see some of the absurd things that are required to be in EVERY policy.

WHY should maternity be in the policy of EVERY American?

Why should ASPIRIN be paid for by insurance AND required in every policy?

If you’re a reckless driver, then you should have to have that kind of car insurance, but I’m not, and the government shouldn’t be requiring me to have it.

If you like fragrance in your car, then go buy it, you shouldn’t have the government requiring it in EVERY car insurance policy.

This kind of nonsense is exactly what opens peoples’ eyes sometimes about the difference between too much government and a government that only handles essential items for governments. When they start thinking along those lines, then it’s possible that good can follow close behind.


42 posted on 11/11/2013 6:41:47 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins

I don’t think it isn’t working.

It’s working grandly to blow back in the Dems’ faces!!


43 posted on 11/11/2013 6:45:58 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: USAF80

Those evil Republicans didn’t stop the evil Democrats from being too evil :-)


44 posted on 11/11/2013 6:47:12 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: xzins
I’m POSITIVE the Gop-E is in favor of it.

Perhaps at the outset, when the thing was just a plan and a piece of legislation. Now that the roll-out has produced a catastrophic fail of truly epic proportions, accompanied by almost universal ridicule, NOBODY wants to be associated with it, particularly nobody running for re-election in the midterms. It's only the Obama-worshipping denizens of the media, with their desperate search to find any miniscule silver lining in this massive black cloud, who have anything remotely positive to say about it.

45 posted on 11/11/2013 6:48:19 PM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: PA Engineer

It is true that some people don’t have the money to pay for any kind of health insurance. Especially if there are dependents involved, that’s an important issue. Some people — many irresponsible — will never get there.

The Good Samaritan type coverage in emergency rooms for that kind of thing was not necessary, but I understood it, and in the context of a Good Samaritan, I was willing to go along with it.

It got abused and got crazy.

At least they should have been tracking individual abusers by SSN, so they could modify to deny emergency room care.


46 posted on 11/11/2013 6:50:27 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins
When government runs a thing, cost is no object.
47 posted on 11/11/2013 6:50:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
True. But at the same time, I can't think of any other privately-run establishment where the owner/operator is required to provide products or services to their "customers" even if they know up front that the customers can't pay the bill.

Without something as harsh as the threat of jail time, you're giving hospitals no other choice but to: (1) require uninsured patients to pay cash or post a bond up front, or (2) close down.

48 posted on 11/11/2013 6:51:00 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: xzins
You don't seem to grasp the basic concept of “insurance”.

That's OK, neither does the Government.

49 posted on 11/11/2013 6:51:16 PM PST by sarasmom (Extortion 17. A large number of Navy SEALs died on that mission. Ask why.)
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To: JennysCool

I am not even sure what really qualifies as a GOP-E anyhow. I guess that’s GOP lite or something. Dunno. Hard to be as demented as a modern Democrat.


50 posted on 11/11/2013 6:51:46 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: sarasmom

Well these plans as employer benefits were never that for a long time. They were more like health maintenance plans. It would be like car insurance that covered oil changes.


51 posted on 11/11/2013 6:52:57 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: sarasmom
You don't seem to grasp the basic concept of “insurance”.

Really? Glad you got that off your chest.

52 posted on 11/11/2013 6:53:20 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins
Your argument is a good one, but with medical care the insurance issue is much more complicated than that. Sure, it's ludicrous to think that an auto insurance policy would cover something like air fresheners.

But what about oil changes? At first glance it would seem silly for an auto insurance policy to cover routine maintenance like an oil change. But what if an auto insurance policy covered powertrain failures in addition to loss and damage from collisions, theft, etc.? In a hypothetical case like that (which might be a good parallel to medical insurance), the insurance company has a huge financial incentive not only to cover oil changes, but to require you to have the oil changed regularly as a condition of maintaining your insurance.

53 posted on 11/11/2013 6:56:56 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: HiTech RedNeck

You beat me to it! See Post #53.


54 posted on 11/11/2013 6:57:26 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Well whatever it is, it isn’t quite an insurance policy now. It’s maintenance.


55 posted on 11/11/2013 6:59:04 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: grumpygresh

There isn’t any well-man visit coverage since men tend to vote Republican.


56 posted on 11/11/2013 7:04:08 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: xzins

Behavioral assessments for children at the following ages: 0 to 11 months, 1 to 4 years, 5 to 10 years, 11 to 14 years, 15 to 17 years.


57 posted on 11/11/2013 7:06:08 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: xzins
So there was no need at all for anything like ObamaCare.

You seem to be missing the whole reason for ObamaCare. It has nothing to do with healthcare, nor with insurance. It is all about control. Control over your decisions. Control over nearly every aspect of your life. And control over who lives, and who dies.

Much like the reason for Marine boot camp, where the DIs mentally and emotionally "break down" the Marine recruits, only to mold them into a cohesive fighting force, the reason for this nightmarish "roll-out" is to break down the public's expectations of what health care should be, and in many cases, what the public has come to depend on, in order to replace it with a nationalized health care system, much like that in Great Britain. IIRC, one of the "architects" of ObamaCare has been repeatedly quoted as admiring the NHS, and hoping to turn the US health care system, formerly one of the best in the world, into a clone of the NHS.

Mark

58 posted on 11/11/2013 7:06:46 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: xzins

I’m glad you posted the article. I’m NOT against the exposition of the listed absurdities, and have often called for in my commentaries the exposing of Leftist idiocies.

MY POINT being we need be more active exposing the true motives of the Marxists.

Obamacare is a tool, a stealth transport tool to sneak past our populace’s sensibilities, our securities under the guise of healthcare the basis of the control the Marxist’s require to establish a form of government the Marxist’s can protect long enough for it to become accepted as the ruling entity. It doesn’t take much time once established for the masses to acquiesce. They already are.


59 posted on 11/11/2013 7:26:22 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: P.O.E.

That stood out to me...what does that mean? Is this psychological analysis?


60 posted on 11/11/2013 7:26:58 PM PST by Girlene (Hey, NSA!)
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