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To: tobyhill
These Obama victims might not be able to get back their now non-existing old policies or, in some cases, any coverage at all but at least maybe they won't have the IRS coming after them for the fines/taxes/penalties/fees (or whatever they're calling it this week) for not having insurance.

Queer how Americans have become so uncharacteristically submissive, so passively compliant to a government that rules by diktat and places itself above a law they created for the serfs. Obama doesn't even pretend to consult Congress anymore before altering the deal.

13 posted on 12/20/2013 3:54:23 AM PST by stormhill
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To: stormhill
Queer how Americans have become so uncharacteristically submissive, so passively compliant to a government that rules by diktat and places itself above a law they created for the serfs.

I addressed this on another thread about this very subject. It's worth repeating:

When it comes to ObamaCare, there's a reason why most Americans aren't up in arms over it: Americans don't understand the health care system, and they never did.

From a purely economic standpoint, ObamaCare is nothing more than a giant leap forward (or backward, depending on how you look at it) in a health care system that has been fatally flawed for decades. Even something as simple as the term "your doctor" hasn't been relevant for years. "Your doctor" doesn't work for you -- he or she works for the insurance company that pays the bills.

It's hard to criticize people for allowing their government to trample on their rights when they already surrendered those rights decades ago. Once you had a third-party payment system in place as the norm, the whole idea of liberty and individual rights went right out the window.

People rise up in anger when they are deprived of things they actually understand (or at least think they do). That's how you end up with a nation where people don't give a sh!t about ObamaCare but will risk life and limb in a mass of humanity at a Black Friday store opening on Thanksgiving night.

21 posted on 12/20/2013 4:05:59 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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