[Jim Robinson]

There's another belief, and that's the belief of our Founding Fathers and all American patriots. ObamaCare is unconstitutional and unAmerican. Obviously and for good reason, the constitution does not authorize the federal government to be in the health care business or the insurance business. Yeah, all Americans would have to be FORCED to be included in such a program because no sane person would voluntarily enter into a self-defeating contract. If allowed to stand, ObamaCare will destroy both the free economy and the healthcare system. Communism never works. If you think it's hard getting health care while being poor (only one car, one TV, one ObamaPhone) in a free country where at least the emergency rooms don't turn you away, just wait until you're dirt poor in a communist country. Good luck in any illness, much less an emergency.

Central planners be damned! America should remain a free country and health care should remain as a free enterprise market-driven system. We already have the best health care system in the entire world!

[Bon mots]

Communists said the same thing.
It would not work unless the whole world adopted it.
This was the excuse they needed for war and the enslavement of millions.

Now Obamacare has the same requirement. Who would have thunk it?

[Talisker]

Ditto, Jim. Well said.

[stockpirate]

The headline is an F’ing lie!

[catnipman]

I don’t think anyone should get too worked up about buying Obamacare insurance. It’s designed so you don’t need to buy insurance until you get really sick anyway, at which point it will be a bargain, no matter what the costs. Sort of like buying casualty insurance only after your house catches on fire.

And during the first few years of Obamacare, the “fines” are trivial, and even later you can avoid actually paying the fine if you always under withhold your tax payments because there is no means to collect the fine except from any excess withholdings.

And I think this is pretty much how it’s going to play out. It’s how socialism works: take as much as you can from the system and give as little back as possible. That’s what “to each according to their needs and from each according to their ability” really boils down to, namely everyone has infinite needs and very few have much ability.

[rockinqsranch]

The only benefactors of this sort of scheme ARE the Leftists, the Communists. It’s all about control, which IS power, and power is wealth for those in power.

[Bon of Babble]

Maybe obamacare was never intended to work.

[Graewoulf]

” - - - ObamaCare is unconstitutional and unAmerican. Obviously and for good reason, the constitution does not authorize the federal government to be in the health care business or the insurance business. - - - “

Very well said, Jim.

[EternalVigilance]

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

— James Madison, father of the United States Constitution

[2ndDivisionVet]

If you’re enrolled in TRICARE or the Veterans health care program, you’re considered covered under the health care law. You don’t need to make any changes.
https://www.healthcare.gov/if-im-a-military-veteran-what-do-i-need-to-know-about-the-marketplace/

Why don’t I believe them?