Quote Originally Posted by waterdog101 View Post
you have to give him credit for trying something, everyone else has talked about health care for to many years. I truly hope it works, I hate the fact that they can tell us we have to buy it even though we are not sick. but I can see where if everyone is doing their part. it will or should help keep the cost down. and for the voucher deal, that is crazy to think the insurance company's competing with each other for the vouchers will keep the premiums low. it didn't work when they said we had to buy car insurance. the insurance company's get together on the prices they charge. just like big oil does on the gas per gallon prices. just as well flush the money down the drain, as to let the Insurance company's decide what everyone will be paying. I trust Insurance company"s even less than I do Obama and Mitt.
Come on man. Trying something? Are you kidding me?

If everyone does their part? Like about 85% of all other working Americans, I've been buying health insurance for my family my whole adult life, how exactly is that not doing our part?

Our health care system has flaws without a doubt, but it is still the best in the world. As I said before, the first place anyone anywhere, including the European countries where the government already administers health care come for serious treatment is right here.

Name one time the federal government 'tried' something and did a good job of it?

This huge experiment is going to cost us dearly after the feds gear up a new bureaucracy to enforce these hopelessly complicated new rules. We've already got thousands of new IRS agents all set to penalize those who don't pay for health insurance, and you ain't seen nothing yet. BTW, the average fed employee salary is 100K a year plus bennies.

Think insurance rates are high now? Hang loose and watch what happens.

I don't give a hoot what the supreme court says, do you or anyone else in their right mind truly believe the federal government has the authority under the constitution to make us buy health insurance? No, as they've done time and again, self serving politicians legislate around the principles America was founded on.