Posted on 02/10/2005 7:46:33 AM PST by MedNole
You no doubt already know this, but the State is now subsidizing car insurance for low-income drivers. Gee, I wonder where the State gets "its" money?
That's all I could think of when I saw the headline. How does a state enforce this? Deport you to Arizona? Shoot you in the head?
Pinz
I am still trying to figure out how my low-life sister-in-law who makes $9.00 an hour and pays no taxes gets a refund ( bigger than mine ) on something she didn't pay into.
She also has state welfare insurance or whatever you call it so I ( you/we ) pay that so she can have kids and stay drunk.
Exactly. I smell Blue Cross/Blue Shield hoping to become government contractors. I also smell campaign contributions to State Assemblymen Joe Nation, D-Marin, and Dr. Keith Richman, R-Chatsworth, from health insurance companies.
Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."
LOL I'd hate to see the uninsured maternity patients! ;-)
Pinz
I say deport them to Detroit....
Forget billing Mexico. Take it out of the $600 milllion that we are going to give Mexico this year.
However, when Bush gives Mexico the totalization agreement on social security , then more than half of Mexico will be on medicare. Guess who gets to pay for that monstrosity?
They shoot you ? Talk about ironic if true.
You are crazy. Insurance is socialism. Mandatory insurance is mandatory socialism.
Insurance is where everyone pays into a pool and benefits are paid out according to "need". It is the very embodiment of Karl Marx.
Notice the authors of this insanity MADE NO MENTION OF TORT REFORM.
What happens right now if an uninsured kid splatters himself on a motorcycle????
He STILL gets treatment, but if he had insurance, at least YOU wouldn't have to pay for it.
that's the only way health care is going to survive.
but the dems will want to exclude from responsibility their tenants on the democrat plantation.
the dems will say that po' illegals can't afford to pay.
and then they'll send the tv cameras over to south central los angeles for some more whining.
Only emergency treatment. Under your preference YOU would still be paying, but paying for more.
/figures
So, should we just refuse all emergency treatment to people that can't afford it? Should we refuse to treat uninsured people in car accidents? Who are having an acute MI? Uninsured kids with leukemia? Uninsured on dialysis?
People without insurance are leeches on all of us. If we require them to a cheap indemnity plan (with a $5,000/year deductible), then it will save ALL of us money.
WOW... I cannot believe the number of so-called Conservatives on this website who are excited about legislation that puts more Government into their lives.
Who will pay the premiums for the people who can't afford to pay for health insurance after this passes? Well, you can rest assured that the next piece of legislation that passes after this one will be one that provides insurance to the "working poor", "welfare class", "unemployed", and "other disadvantaged groups". It's going to cost the taxpayers.
Who will enforce this law? Count on a new Department of Medical Insurance, staffed by hundreds of political cronies of the legislators - making 6-figure salaries. It's going to cost the taxpayers.
What's the remedy if someone doesn't have insurance? Count on the formation of a Committee on Determining Enforcement Mechanisms. It's going to cost the taxpayers.
Sorry, this legislation is not for me... keep the Government away from the health industry.
Insurance itself is the big cost raiser and always has been. Because of insurance, Docs started charging more because the insurance companies could pay more than individuals, then insurance companies raised their rates to cover the costs of the treatments docs were charging, the docs charged more, then insurnace raised again, and on and on. Now, we here it is the fault of people who have to weight between buying food and paying rent and having health insurance. This is BS.
Also, forcing people to have insurance, car or health, is definately big brotherish and, IMO, is unconstitutional.
If this goes into affect, what will the penalty be for not having health insurance? Are they going to stop people on the street and demand an insurance card?
The article said "Healthcare costs," not insurance coverage.
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