Here we go: Mandated Health-Care for Every American......

Enforced through the tax system.....sweet........

Senator Takes Initiative on Health Care - NY Times

Without waiting for President-elect Barack Obama, Senator Max Baucus, the chairman of the Finance Committee, will unveil a detailed blueprint on Wednesday to guarantee health insurance for all Americans by facilitating sales of private insurance, expanding Medicaid and Medicare, and requiring most employers to provide or pay for health benefits

.....People would have a duty to obtain coverage when affordable options were available to all through employers or through the insurance exchange. This obligation “would be enforced, possibly through the tax system,” the plan says.

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Comments

[Poopyhead]

When one thinks about it the Great Depression was an epic disaster that extended far beyond the 1930's. The Depression itself may have ended in 1940 but all the government intrusion into people's lives that got its start in the 1930's has gotten worse and worse. Now we're going to get "free" health care-the dream of millions who failed to think this over rationally. They will discover what we here have long known-this "freebie" will mean losing over half our paychecks in taxes, every hypochondriac running to a doctor, waiting lists determined by the nomenklatura (that's Russian for faceless bureaucrats-get used to the Russian words because we will be seeing plenty of old Soviet terms in the future)and higher costs for medical care in the long run. Plus the door will be open for further expansion of this "freebie" similar to what happened with welfare (originally intended only for widows with kids). And guess who'll complain the loudest? Those who voted for the Dear Leader because they didn't see it coming.

[mr.ed]

thank you obama praise obama or else

[Paul M]

Get your terminology right ! It's not 'mandatory health care', it's 'mandatory purchase of INSURANCE' !!!! Whether you actually GET any healthcare or not ....

Another bailout-in-sheeps-clothing, this one for the insurance industry and trial lawyers ( who are funded by the insurance industry ).

Cock suckers, the whole bunch of 'em.

[Battlecat]

Yes, Paul. You are right. This plan will not actually insure anyone but the insurance companies.

[The REAL Bob]

With universal health care, you will see the demand will be so high that our health care system, the best in the world, will be overwhelmed. It can't cope. Waits will be long and deadly. Professionals, now that their salaries and incomes will be strictly regulated, will bail out of the system, exacerbating the already overwhelmed professionals left. And it will stiffle innovation and invention of new therapies and equipment.

National health care means NO health care.

[Battlecat]

But it *can* be done, Bob. Germany and France have very good systems of universal health care. (Not much so in Britain, though.)

[Online Doctor Appointment]

Yes, Paul. You are correct This plan will not useful for anyone but it will only beneficial for insurance companies.