[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

YEAAARRRRRGHHH!!!!!!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Nanny State PING!

[rockinqsranch]

Howard Dean is a friggin’ idiot.

[Servant of the Cross]

Howard Dean: Employers Individuals Have No Right to Make Health Decisions, But Gov't Does

[ClearCase_guy]

"So, you know, this is one country," Dean told CNN

"My view of that is we're a single country ..."

The fellow doth protest too much. On some subconscious level, he knows that Obama is ripping the country apart and making a civil war likely.

[trisham]

I can’t stand him.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"We all have to live by a set of things that are passed in Washington and agreed to by the court"

Some of us would like to limit those requirments as much as possible while still maintaining a civilized society.

[Personal Responsibility]

If I don’t like my employers health plan, I can (and have) change employers. That fact seems lost on the libs.

Of course, it’s all BS. They want control and use arguments like this to get people to cede that control to them. Rest assured, if their words never worked, they’d be all for taking that control by force.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Howie is a one man freak show. It’s starting to appear as though he’s pimping himself to be Mrs. Slick Willie’s VP. Good luck to him but he better be careful around her test tickle lock box.

[Obadiah]

At their core, Democrats are fascists.

[loveliberty2]

Sheer constitutional illiteracy!!!!

[ExTexasRedhead]

Howard would have fit in with the Regime at Dachau, ya think?

[Secret Agent Man]

55 million women killed their babies by their own choice due to scotus and dean thinks scotus hasn’t been good for their reproductive rights.

is dean now pro-life? roe v wade / scotus didn’t do women any favors. sarc

[Vendome]

Well, you are flipping wrong.

[oldbrowser]

"So, you know, this is one country," Dean told CNN's "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley on Sunday. "We all have to live by a set of things that are passed in Washington and agreed to by the court.

Didn't someone just post a satire article a couple of days ago that said basically the same thing?

[TigersEye]

Dean is such a mental midget. No telling how many Vermonters
are alive today because he abandoned medicine for politics.

[Dead Corpse]

Can’t we just euthanize him before he gets anyone else hurt?

[Tench_Coxe]

"Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, a liberal Democrat, says decisions about health care should rest with the federal government, not with individual employers who pay for their workers' health insurance."
No. Health care should be between doctor and patient.
Here is the long buried thing the might be raised: When FDR put caps on salaries, employers started putting perks outside of salaries to attract good employees--health insurance was one of them.
So, in sum, one Democrat limits the salaries of employees, and another picks up the mantle to take another perk away.
Chew on that, libs...

[chris37]

Dean, you have the right to f*** off.

That is all.

[John Valentine]

We'll see what the court does, but I don't think a particular employer has a right to decide what kind of health care their employees are going to get.

Does this braying jackass really not understand that this is not about "what kind of health care" someone's employees are going to get, but what are the characteristics and dimensions of the insurance benefits to be provided to employees by an employer. Not the same thing. Not at all.

[Amendment10]

Dr. Dean is partly right about "government" power to make health decisions for citizens. More specifically, the Founding States made the 10th Amendment to clarify that the Constitution's silence about things like public healthcare means that government power to make such decisions is automatically reserved uniquely to the states, not the federal government.

That being said, Dr. Dean, evidently a low-information voter, is unsurprisingly clueless to the reality that the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for public healthcare purposes. But if Mr. Dean wises up to the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, he will understand that he needs to do the following if he wants a constitutionally compliant national healthcare program.

He needs to work with his federal and state lawmakers to propose a healthcare amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. And if the states chose to ratify the amendment, then the USA would have a constitutionally compliant national healthcare program and Dr. Dean would be a hero.