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Originally Posted by ijusluvit
Here's a simple quiz:
The question then is, Who pays for the millions of uninsured emergency room visits and those who won't contribute? Answer: The insured.
Additionally, you and I and all the politicized special interests were not around yet when states adopted the rather common sense idea that everyone who drives a vehicle should be insured. Mandatory auto insurance is not a perfect analogy to health care, but imagine where we would be without it.
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Owning and operating a motor vehicle is a statutory privilege extended quite legally by the state. Not every man woman and child owns a car therefore they do not need mandatory insurance. While you acknowledge it is not a perfect analogy.....you fall short of admitting that it is totally irrelevant as a comparison to national health insurance.
There are a litany of issues concerning Obamacare that have been vigorously debated in this forum. The one issue that no supporter of Obamacare seems to want to debate is the now $500,000,000,000 plus reduction (raid) on Medicare to balance the numbers. Those funds are apparently going to Medicaid to help offset costs. How is that good for those now covered by Medicare? It is absolutely a Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme that in the private sector would result in the indictment and prosecution of the perpetrators.
Those who are on Medicare paid into it, supported it and kept it solvent throughout a good part of their working lives. Now they face draconian cuts in service and medical care. Where is all that liberal empathy for those losing what they had an expectation to enjoy in their golden years?
Repairing the problems with Medicare did not require a new trillion dollar entiltement plan.