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Rep. Wasserman Schultz Insists Health Care Law Doesn't Require Individuals to Buy Insurance
CNSNews ^ | April 8, 2010 | Matt Cover

Posted on 04/08/2010 2:00:49 PM PDT by raptor22

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D.-Fla.) is insisting that the new health care law she voted for last month does not mandate that individuals buy health insurance, despite language in the law that plainly says otherwise.

At an April 5 town hall meeting in Fort Lauderdale (see video below), a constituent asked Wasserman Shultz where the Constitution authorized Congress to mandate that individuals buy health insurance. She responded that the new health care law did not require individuals to buy health insurance.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 111th; congress; democrats; elections; fl2010; florida; obamacare; readthebill; wassermanschultz
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1 posted on 04/08/2010 2:00:50 PM PDT by raptor22
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To: raptor22

The typical RAT strategy...LIE...LIE...LIE!


2 posted on 04/08/2010 2:02:26 PM PDT by Redleg Duke (RAT Hunting Season started the evening of March 21st, 2010!)
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To: raptor22

And she’s the House Whip? Bet she’s never read the bill - believes what Nazi Pelozi tells her.


3 posted on 04/08/2010 2:02:29 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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To: raptor22

If you can buy into the notion that giving money to someone who does not pay taxes is a “tac cut,” then this one’s easy.


4 posted on 04/08/2010 2:02:59 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (My top 5 for '10: Nevada, Arkansas, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Illinois)
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To: raptor22
Why are America's Jewish politicians leftist lying weasels?

No wonder they live here and not in Israel.

5 posted on 04/08/2010 2:05:02 PM PDT by IbJensen ((Ps 109.8): "Let his days be few; and let another take his position.")
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To: Redleg Duke

Be smart. She is revealing their court strategy.

Be smart and well-informed.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2482778/posts?page=100#100


6 posted on 04/08/2010 2:05:09 PM PDT by Hostage
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To: raptor22

I hope her opponent plays it over and over and over...

What a LIAR!


7 posted on 04/08/2010 2:05:56 PM PDT by Adder (Proudly ignoring Zero since 1-20-09! WTFU!)
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To: raptor22

“who ya gonna beleive? me or your own lying eyes?”

what movie did that come from? I forget


8 posted on 04/08/2010 2:05:58 PM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: raptor22; Technical Editor; ForGod'sSake; Publius; Man50D

ping!

Corraborates previous prediction:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2482778/posts?page=100#100


9 posted on 04/08/2010 2:07:19 PM PDT by Hostage
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To: raptor22

As with Political Corruption, Liberalism and Democratic Party Hacks being intelligent are oxymoronic unto them selves; let alone are Mental Disorders.


10 posted on 04/08/2010 2:08:32 PM PDT by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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To: raptor22; All

Contact information:

Washington, DC Office
Debbie Wasserman Schultz 118 Cannon HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: (202) 225-7931
Fax: (202) 226-2052

Pembroke Pines, FL Office
Debbie Wasserman Schultz 10100 Pines Blvd.
Pembroke Pines, FL 33026
Phone: (954) 437-3936
Fax: (954) 437-4776

Aventura, FL Office
Debbie Wasserman Schultz 19200 West Country Club Drive, 3ed Floor
Aventura, FL 33180
Phone: (305) 936-5724
Fax: (305) 932-9664


11 posted on 04/08/2010 2:08:40 PM PDT by raptor22 (The truth will set us free)
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To: raptor22

She obviously has not read the bill. I have read the bill. She’s ignorant at best.


12 posted on 04/08/2010 2:16:14 PM PDT by avacado
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To: raptor22

It seems to me that what she said is that you don’t have to purchase health insurance, but that if you don’t, you will be placed in a “different tax category”. She did not say what that means, but my brain tells me that your taxes will increase. There may be some formula they have for increasing your taxes for not having health insurance.

Did anyone else get that—or am I imagining here? LOL!


13 posted on 04/08/2010 2:16:17 PM PDT by basil (It's time to rid the country of "Gun Free Zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: raptor22

Debbie is one toke over the line, Sweet Jesus.


14 posted on 04/08/2010 2:16:19 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady (.)
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To: raptor22

an enemy of the USA


15 posted on 04/08/2010 2:18:47 PM PDT by rrrod
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To: avacado; All

Sargeant Wasserman Schultz?


16 posted on 04/08/2010 2:19:14 PM PDT by raptor22 (The truth will set us free)
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To: raptor22
"the law merely created new tax categories that would reflect who carries insurance and who does not. “What we did is that--just like when you’re treated--that they categorize you differently in terms of your tax return when you’re married versus single,... she said"

Just like you'll be categorized when you're a GM purchaser versus a Ford purchaser....

17 posted on 04/08/2010 2:19:21 PM PDT by LZ_Bayonet ( I AM THE TEA PARTY LEADER !)
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To: raptor22
My, isn’t that clever. It’s not a mandate. If you don’t buy insurance, you’re just in a different category that is subject to an assessment. I remember when I was a kid and I picked up a snake, it would pee on me. I think I was just peed on.
18 posted on 04/08/2010 2:20:38 PM PDT by throwback
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To: raptor22

There are a lot of reasons to dislike Wasserman-Schultz, this isn’t one of them. You have a choice. Under the new law you either purchase coverage that meets the requirements or you pay a penalty/fee/assessment (name it whatever you want). If you had no choice it would be an entirely different issue - and it would be struck down. The challenges that are generating a lot of hot air right now which are based on a claim of an unconstitutional mandate will fail.

Last year - in the status quo ante of Health Care Reform - you were paying for uncompensated care at hospitals and clinics across the country. Either via taxes or increased premiums for private pay health insurance to implicitly compensate for medical care provided to those who refuse to pay/fail to pay/choose not to pay.

Where I would criticize Wasserman-Schultz is that she will not get behind efforts to control uncompensated care - the free-riders in our society. You can require coverage (or, apply the penalty) but that will not eliminate the illegal alien showing up in the emergency room and running up a multimillion dollar tab at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, for example. That kind of stuff has to stop. She talks the talk about stropping free rider behavior - but she will not walk the walk.


19 posted on 04/08/2010 2:23:13 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: raptor22

READ THE BILL!!


20 posted on 04/08/2010 2:23:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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