Quote Originally Posted by Devils Horse View Post
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.
no I wasn't kidding, try something was a loose term, try Affordable Health Care is what I should have said. and I to have paid dearly for health care insurance all my Adult life 40 years of working I'm 60. but 35 million people here in the USA don't have it as good as you and I, America does have the best health care in the world if you are blessed enough to have some kind of coverage. the penalty for not paying for the insurance plan, is supposed to keep the Insurance pool large enough to help keep the cost down. where it works or not, I don't think it will be a great improvement, but like I said try something. talking about health care every 4 years for 4 generations only leaves millions of people with no way to get treated for an issue. and I to don't like the Government in everything going on, but without the greedy Government, we would be much worse off. when the floods come, who do we look for, when the crops fail, who do we look for, when we get down sick and can't work for our family, who do we turn to. when kids going to collage with poor parents, who they look for. the list goes on and on. and I've worked for 5 different company's over my life span, and all 5 would take short cuts doing the job. to save the company time and money. I can't imagine the shape this country would be in without strict rules and regulations.