Posted on 03/27/2012 11:21:33 AM PDT by Nachum
(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama has justified the mandate in his health-care law that requires individuals to buy health insurance by arguing that it will eliminate free riders—that is, people who get health care (often from emergency rooms) but, lacking insurance, never pay anything back into the health-care system.
"So that's why the individual mandate's important," Obama explained in a speech on Aug. 15, 2011.
"Because the basic theory is, look, everybody here at some point or another is going to need medical care, and you can't be a free-rider on everybody else," said Obama. "You can't not have health insurance, then go to the emergency room, and each of us, who've don the responsible thing and have health insurance, suddenly we now have to pay the premiums for you. That's not fair. So, if you can afford it, you should get health insurance just like you get car insurance."
However, in the Supreme Court on Monday, Justice Samuel Alito forced President Barack Obama’s solicitor general, Donald Verrilli, to admit that under Obamacare these free riders will not be eliminated despite the individual mandate.
For an elite group—including people eligible for Medicaid who don’t sign up for it and people whose health care expenses exceed 8 percent of their income—the Obamacare mandate is no mandate and the penalty is neither a penalty nor a tax because they are not required to pay it, period.
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The dark side I feel in this one...
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The idiot for the Adminstration defense also pretend the group exempt from this mandate was small, when in fact it numbers over 1,000 groups.
Not to mention that some religious objections are treated “more equal that others”.
For an elite group— i.e. illegals
Don’t care what 0bama says.
Anything out of his mouth is with forked-tongue, smoke and mirrors.
you can’t be a free-rider on everybody else-———
Well except for illegal aliens, Muslims etc are free riding off of the taxpayers now. And all Obamacare does it give it to millions more of em.
I am shocked!
Of course it a giant vote buy.
Another burden on the middle class that cannot afford teams of tax lawyers to hide or delay income.
Buffet and is 15% tax rates.
We cover the other the shortages.
Back in the day, Obama was (and probably still is) a member of the New Black Panthers. Gee, can’t imagine who’s pushing all this hooha...
Yes, low income people will receive a “subsidy”, which means this is, like most democratic initiatives, a redistributive program. This puts the lie to their claim that they are trying to create a better health insurance marketplace. This is just more redistribution of wealth.
I wish our elected Republicans would work as hard as Justice Alito did to expose Obama lies.
No real surprise. Lenin said it first; the only difference between Lenin and Obama is the size of the group sucking away at the public teat.
That nasty equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment comes to mind.
If Obamacare gets past the USSC as constitutional wouldn’t this be the next challenge. Where is the equal protection when so many are exempt from paying anything for premiums or penalties?
I would think these people, those exempt from paying anything, would go to the bottom of the pile. The ones that aren’t contributing will be behind those that are paying the bills when it comes to getting something, for example, like an organ transplant. Doesn’t that make sense? If you want a system like this to survive, wouldn’t you give first consideration to those that are paying the bills and contributing over those that are not?
Don’t care what 0bama says.
Anything out of his mouth is with forked-tongue, smoke and mirrors.
One can see the slime ooze out of his skin. He is an evil, evil creature. Repulsive doesn’t begin to describe him.
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