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Rep. McDermott: It's ‘Not American’ To Remove Individual Mandate for Health Insurance
Cybercast News Service ^ | November 30, 2016 | 12:27 PM EST | Eric Scheiner

Posted on 11/30/2016 2:40:48 PM PST by Olog-hai

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) says removing the federal government's individual mandate to purchase health insurance is “not American.”

McDermott told C-Span’s Washington Journal Tuesday, that Republican efforts to remove the government mandate to purchase health insurance from the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) will not work. …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: individualmandate; jihadjim; mcdermott; obamacare; zerocare
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To: Publius
"He’s being replaced by another Seattle socialist Stalinist."
21 posted on 11/30/2016 2:56:27 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Olog-hai

He means it’s “not progressive”.


22 posted on 11/30/2016 2:56:54 PM PST by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: Olog-hai

Traitor Roberts got that moniker for a reason.


23 posted on 11/30/2016 2:57:47 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much wwork to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Olog-hai

Removing a draconian governmental imposition is unamerican?????


24 posted on 11/30/2016 2:58:36 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
This famous statue of Lenin stands in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood in the 7th Congressional District, represented for a few weeks more by Baghdad Jim.


25 posted on 11/30/2016 2:59:27 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Olog-hai

It’s not “American” not to force individual citizens to purchase an insurance policy whether they want to or not? Maybe in McDermott’s fevered imagination “American” means “dictatorial” - with him it would explain so much.


26 posted on 11/30/2016 2:59:42 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Well aren’t you a special kind of stupid, McDermott?


27 posted on 11/30/2016 2:59:46 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Publius

I wonder what that is made of. And what kind of chemicals would eat through it.


28 posted on 11/30/2016 3:02:21 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Standard bronze statuary brought over from Russia as a trophy of the Cold War. Some people see it as a conversation piece, and others take it seriously.


29 posted on 11/30/2016 3:03:55 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Olog-hai
It's only been six years! That makes it "American?"

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30 posted on 11/30/2016 3:06:21 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: BenLurkin

Makes a great urinal.


31 posted on 11/30/2016 3:07:26 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Olog-hai

Hey voters, McDermott wants the government to continue forcing you to buy insurance.


32 posted on 11/30/2016 3:08:16 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: Olog-hai

The individual mandate’s existence is un-American. As is the rest of the horrid, misbegotten, misnamed “Affordable” “Care” Act.


33 posted on 11/30/2016 3:08:36 PM PST by NorthMountain (Northmountain)
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To: Political Junkie Too

For a Seattle communist like McDermott, absolutely.


34 posted on 11/30/2016 3:08:43 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The only mandate needed is one forbidding healthcare professionals from spreading the costs of treating the uninsured to people who have coverage.


35 posted on 11/30/2016 3:09:21 PM PST by Wolfie
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To: Olog-hai

Subsidize the poor and you will get more of them.

Free food, free housing, free healthcare, free transportation, free cell phones, free income, etc.

Who wants to work?


36 posted on 11/30/2016 3:10:18 PM PST by Kenny500c
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To: BenLurkin
It's bronze. Acids tend to attack metals, generally.

Urine is acidic.

I am not responsible for whatever you may choose to do with that information.

37 posted on 11/30/2016 3:10:18 PM PST by NorthMountain (Northmountain)
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To: Olog-hai

I’ll be nice, and just reiterate he’s Democrat, therefore a lip flapper.


38 posted on 11/30/2016 3:10:58 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: Olog-hai; lal
With all due respect to Rep. McDermott, low-information McDermott does not seem to understand the following.

Since the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare purposes, he violated his oath to protect and defend the Constitution when he voted for Obamacare.


39 posted on 11/30/2016 3:14:43 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Olog-hai

good riddens to the commie mcdermott. as i recall i read his name as an initial sponser of the original obamacare bill. he was as bad as stark raving.


40 posted on 11/30/2016 3:22:00 PM PST by dadfly
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