Posted on 04/05/2006 7:05:04 AM PDT by CSM
Not just in taxes, but that $295/employee will be passed on to the consumer, a double whammy.
Unfortunately, I have to agree. I had hopes for him too.
GDRINO
In Utah GD stands for Gosh Darned.
Might as well bring back the blue laws. All those loonys driving up to NH on sunday for beer and lottery tickets.
Actually it could work the other way too. If people find out they need costly heart surgery or something health insurance won't cover, move on down to Massachusetts.
This is about socialism versus individual responsibility. There will never be enough taxpayers to pay for socialized medicine. It undermines freedom of choice, undermines private property rights, and sends a message to those who smoke, abuse alcohol, use illegal drugs, overeat, and never exercise, that the government (taxpayers) will provide "free" medical care. Got AIDS caused by homosexual sodomy? Your child is born with a birth defect due to your use of illegal drugs? Smoke a pack a day? Drink to excess? Don't worry, the government will take care of you. Apparently news of the failure of the USSR has not been reported in the Boston Globe.
An unbelievable socialistic state of affairs...unbelievably. The great banner state of liberty from the 1770s is going down (and has been for a long time) a socialistic path which is nothing more than communism/marxism light and is intended to lead there.
John and Sam Adams, Paul Revere, and all those other patriots are surely turing over in their graves and hiding their faces in shame.
Amen. See my post 28.
I normally would try to respond to comments on a thread to ensure that I wasn't posting and fleeing, however in this case there are so many good comments that I can't respond to only a few.
I agree with all sentiments posted in the first 30 or so. Romney signs this and he might as well run as Hildabeast's VP......Socialism...economics....
All good feedback! That's why I love FR!
Unless your landlord has about $200K available for a treatment of a serious disease or accident he will not be able to pay and he is not responsible. Having cash to see your dentist or family doctor for an annual checkup or the occasional throat culture is cheap. Everyone should have to pay for these kind of visits, but insurance is for the catastrophic kind of treatments that if we live long enough, everybody will need it.
The problem is that the uninsured do cost everybody in the form of increases in our premiums.
As it stands, those who could afford to purchase health insurance pay their own way when they get sick...or use catastrophic health insurance. Those who cannot afford to buy health insurance - and I cannot imagine why - there are many plans out there and most states offer subsidized health insurance paid for by the taxpayer - are breaking the bank...everyone's.
The worst thing to do is to expect the employer to pay again for this subsidy.
>>>Lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a bill Tuesday that would make Massachusetts the first state to require that all its citizens have some form of health insurance.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts
Healthy People 2010
Massachusetts "Welcome to the Commie State" Free Food, Free Healthcare, Free Housing ...
except for the poor hard working slobs who support all the goldbrickers in the state!
I don't mind that they come here to spend their money; what I mind is when they decide to stay - and proceed to import their left-wing politics along with their (still) Kerry-Edwards-bumper-stickered Volvos. The same goes for Vermont - even more so.
>>>requiring a list of ever-growing treatment mandates.
That is already defined. Go see the CDC links of the 28 focus areas on the Healthy People thread. There is a database waiting for your name in the field!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1609552/posts?page=35#35
Here it comes!
Socialism...
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