Posted on 09/25/2009 11:51:10 AM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
Ensign receives handwritten confirmation This doesn't happen often enough.
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staft Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance.
Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty, Barthold wrote on JCT letterhead. He signed it "Sincerely, Thomas A. Barthold."
The note was a follow-up to Ensign's questioning at the markup.
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No wonder the democrats will never allow anyone to actually view or debate their proposed law.
Friggin evil thugs.
What I’d like to know from people like you is why you insist on distorting our current system to make such a phony and disingenuous argument.
When a person who doesn’t have insurance needs emergency care, they are treated immediately at the emergency room. Once that is over and done with, the subject of the bill comes up. Those who don’t have the fee on site (most) are given time to pay or this wonderful thing we like to refer to as a payment plan.
Everyone who gets treated has to give a social security number. You wouldn’t be trying to protect people who don’t have social security numbers by lumping everyone else who doesn’t carry insurance in with them, would you?
So, how about it? Do you rail on about how everyone with a credit card is having ‘the rest of us’ pay their bill? How about the unforgivable sin of taking out a mortgage or a car loan? Hmm??
EXCELLENT!
I owe my soul to the company store. < /16 Tons >
According to this note, half of the democrats in congress should be in jail.
Parts of 19th century America were some of the freest times in which men could live.
The Joker is a tyrant just like all the others throughout history.
This is no longer a free country.
The only solution to all this madness is to overwhelmingly boot out the current crop of traitors in the Congress and replace them with conservative patriots next year. We must then demand that they repeal all this stupidity, or resort to revolution. We only have one chance and that is next year to clean house, then do it again in 12 to sanitize the Senate and render the Executive branch sterile. Like I have been saying, this “health” care package is about 100 pages of health and 900 pages of expanded dictatorship. It is up to us.
Expanded like that, the quote is even better, in context.
I was just about to say!
Better make plans because they clearly want it to go that far.
That’s freaking awesome. I don’t want .gov insurance, self employeed to so its not like I’m gonna get employer paid insurance, and I currently self insure just fraking fine thanks.
Guess I’m going to be turned into a criminal even though I’m a productive member of society and not part of the problem.
bump
And if you decide not to buy insurance? And you get into an accident or otherwise end up in the ER? Then we ALL pay for you.
I can see the reasoning behind this - if you are relying on private insurance to insure the health costs of all Americans, then there has to be some fine for the freeloaders.
In no particular order:
Medical care loans. Doctors offering pro bono care. Payment plans. Charity. CATASTROPHIC INSURANCE - you know the kind that is really insurance and not a misnomer for getting other people to pay for regularly scheduled and foreseen occurrences. My insurance only costs about $160 per month and I pay out of pocket for a lot of stuff. Imagine that - personal responsibility.
None of those things require government.
I think what a lot of freepers are missing, is that this will be done automatically. As in, no choice at all. In Canada, they give you a “health” card with a health number on it, whether you like it or not. Similar I suppose to a SS#. So, if this isn’t stopped NOW and here, it will not be stopped at all. Can you imagine the Democrats trying to get rid of the Homeland Security Dept? Or ICE? Same deal here.
1): Tort Reform
2): Free Market competition across state lines
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