Poll: Did the Supreme Court make the right decision on the health care law?
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Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:38 PM EDT
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Yes. After waiting for so many years finally American people have universal health care for everybody. President Obama gets a big credit among other accomplishments. I am glad the supreme court said about allowable taxing to mandate, i was worried about that.
YUP !!!!
Roses for Roberts.
see what Obama has to say......
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/06/28/supreme-court-upholds-president-obamas-health-care-reform?utm_source=email168&utm_medium=text1&utm_campaign=healthcare
so twice this week the supreme court slapped the repukes hard up side their pointy little heads. yippee. OBAMA 2012.
Justice Roberts went with the better angels of his nature and all America will thank him in years to come.
I'm thanking him today!
God bless you Justice Roberts!
YES,YES and once more YES. That hateful Hannity and bumble boy Limbo started to rant as usual, and now their favorite conservative judge, and guess what? They (both) started to bad mouth him! That is the way they always do, when any Repb goes against their wish, they start bad mouthing him/her. Romney wants to stop this on his first day at W.H.(In his dream).
I support this all the way.
Yep Obama 2012!!!!!
The GOP really messed up this time and now Holder, they will never learn
And that Darell, Darell, Darell ISSA (spelled backwards) has put his finger on shotgun. That man has got big head, and hope in next term he is defeated, and Damocrat will be in charge.
A thousand times YES!!! Kudos to Roberts for his yes vote to get this thing settled! I hope that the Rethugs are sweating bullets on how to twist this to their advantage. They can't do it!!!
BTW Hi to everyone! Hope all is well. We are doing fine. Take care everyone, love to all!
I am one of those business owners that had to keep my regular job while running my business simply because I could not get health insurance as a business owner. I have a preexisting condition and as a result I was told by United Healthcare that I could not be insured and they also informed me not to apply anywhere else because I would be denied with other companies as well.
So, I still have to wait until 2014 - but in 2014 I can finally quit my job and work on my business fully - and be able to get health insurance at the same time!!!
Thank you Lord for touching Judge Roberts heart!!!!
I believe Roberts, deep down inside, realizes that Citizens United was a terrrible decision... He doesn't want it alone to be his legacy to history, his sole reason to be remembered and reviled by the American people... Going down in history as the judge who also destroyed Health Care and transformed Latinos into criminals would have cemented his image as a Republican hack...
Nan, great to see you!
Nanette, Wonderful to see you back and what a wonderful day for The American people!
@Billie
LOL... their pointy heads is right! We blunt skulls have it going ON!
Good Evening Every One---Happy Health Care Reform Day To You All!
@Mac
The Repugs are now meeting to figure out how to throw Justice Roberts out of the GOP. John Bonehead will be bringing impeachment charges against him next week for an act of treason to the Greedy Obstructionist Party.
*waves to Rachael* Same to you and all. What great news we got, instead of what we were all dreading.
It's amazing how things can change when someone in the SCOTUS decides to do the right thing instead of the parisan thing.
Hey D--The Best Is Yet To Come!---OBAMA/BIDEN-2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAOnUj0VYJ8 == Scorpions - The Best is Yet to Come !!!!!
I was worried, very worried but now I am relieved Hi Nanette, DScully, Pam, Thankful Mom - MDMI where ya at! XXX OOO David M Johnson everybody happy heath care come hell or high water day!
hello everyone and thanks for the kudos d
This explanation is so simple about Health Care you won't believe it.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+healthcare+video&mid=6D1EC367DAE7CB6493E36D1EC367DAE7CB6493E3&view=detail&FORM=VIRE1
Hey there Ethel and ALL Friends !!! ----- YES ! ------ ♥♥♥♥♥ - HOPE - Is On the Horizon !!!!!
listening to that fuc king IDIOT Limburger on the radio, I thought he was going to have a stroke (which I would have cheered). Alas - he continued with his diatribe until he got horse (not hoarse, HORSE - just like his fat face)
Limbaugh is a disgusting pig. No offence to pigs.
Don't you people understand that you just got handed a poison pill? The SCOTUS just ruled that this was a 'tax' not a 'penalty'. It's the biggest tax on the middle class in US history. How is Obama going to spin this?
Maybe he'll say that, "It's the right thing to do." Tax the middle class more to pay for all those uninsured. Hope that change works out for you.
lol
someone trying out the rushbuttboil talking point.
Well, call Romney and ask him how it works, it is structured just like HIS mandate
:)
MJL, I knew they'd start screaming about how it raises taxes, as that is the new phony talking point of the GOP and is being fed by Fox news and the T-party, and ROMNEY, who knows better, but goes with the BIG LIE!
The fact that it was upheld under the tax code does NOT mean it is a tax raise!!!! The tax part of it only comes in when people who CAN AFFORD health insurance and choose not to have it, (thus raising the cost for the rest of us) will be taxed a small amount as a penalty for not participating and taking individual responsibility. This isn't even enforceable. It also affects at most 2% of the population. It does NOT RAISE ANYONE'S TAXES. That is a T-party LIE and they sure will keep driving it home!
@India LeCarre,
Who do you think are going to pay for the 30+ million people that don't have health insurance? Some of those are rolling the dice because their young and healthy. The rest can't afford it. So, the young healthy ones get taxed to the hilt because they don't have a choice now, so they will bear the brunt of this. The rest of us will have to pony up the rest.
I don't know about you, but I'm middle class. If it looks like a tax, smells like a tax, and quacks like a tax, it's probably a tax and, by the way, the largest tax increase in America's history.
I thought President Obama wasn't going to raise my taxes.
@India LeCarre,
You said, "It does NOT RAISE ANYONE'S TAXES." Well, then who the hell is going to pay for 30+ million uninsured people? Maybe the magic dollar fairies will make it rain $100 bills.
Hey Drill...
Swallow this Pill!
There is NO REAL mandate, it's actually a NON-mandate... because the ACA has a mandate in "word only" without any real enforcement mechanism as has been explained on numerous occasions by Lawrence O. Of course, it might be above your head or ability to understand... give the primitive brain conservatives are working with which only responds to fear mongering. But if you want to give it a try, click on the link below.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45755883/vp/47989648#47972054
There is NO TAX INCREASE in the ACA, as there isn't even an enforceable fine. And it is certainly NOT A HUGE TAX INCREASE TO ALL AMERICANS, as you Repugs/TEApugs are currently lying about. So go spread it to the brain dead viewers at Fox... we know better over here. We are able to use the areas of our brains that reason and deal with reality... instead of just fear.
Yes, yes, yes
Don't you people understand that you just got handed a poison pill? The SCOTUS just ruled that this was a 'tax' not a 'penalty'. It's the biggest tax on the middle class in US history. How is Obama going to spin this?
Maybe he'll say that, "It's the right thing to do." Tax the middle class more to pay for all those uninsured. Hope that change works out for you.
From a purely Constitutional point of view, I would have to say yes. The law has its flaws. But getting something actually in place is a monumental achievement. I'm a big believer in tweaking, improving, and refining. This health care law is something to be built upon, not torn down.
You know the republican are not going to uphold the Constitution at the time. It does not fit their need. Romney has already delivered his intent and his lies.
He does it at his own peril. He was my governor.
HEY AMERICANS! YOU HAVE ROMNEY CARE TOO!!!!!
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Hi BooCoo!!
Yes. People with pre-existing conditions won't have to wait for healthcare until universal healthcare is available.....that's my hope. Many other groups will be under the umbrella for now.
We will never have romney care, that is just it. He does not care!
Justice Roberts saved my daughter-in-law's life today. Any questions?
improving and tweaking is the way to go---tearing down would leave us with nothing.
@Judy
Everytime I see Mutt Robme on TV saying he's going to "repeal Obamacare", I'd like someone to ask him if another Repug governor was elected in Massachusetts (though I'm pretty sure they've learned their lesson)... would Robme appreciate him repealing Romneycare? I'll bet he won't answer that question. Nor will he answer the question if he's going to replace Obamacare with Romneycare... it's the same thing.
If he ever comes anywhere near my town, I'll ask him those questions along with asking why he lies about everything. Why he lies about all of President Obama's accomplishments and the truth about his own "job creation" in other countries by outsourcing American jobs. Then of course, there is the matter of his money in Cayman Island banks and tax cuts for the rich.
DScully, Every time I see his insincere, pandering, snobbish, vacuous, narcissistic face I want to just punch his lights out.
I don't want to ask him something. I want to show him something! The back of my hand!
I want to wipe that look right off his face. I absolutely despise the man. I can barely stand to look at him. I can't stand the sound of his voice. If he wins, I swear I'll leave the country.
Good thing my prediction is that Ann Coulter was right for once: "They'll go with Romney and he'll lose."
It won't be as close as people think right now, either. People will begin to pay attention to what's what and who cares and who doesn't. Obama was very lax in not advertising his Obamacare in a way that folks understood what it was. There was nothing to counter Fox's lies and the rants of the toxic talkers like Hannity and Limbaugh.
Hi India
I feel the same way about barely standing the sight and sound of Robme... which is similar to the way I felt about GW Moron. They both make me sick. Of course, Robme doesn't have the same dopey expression on his puss... but he's certainly as big a liar.
I agree... the President as well as other Democrats in the Congress should have been pushing back on all of the lies being told by the right about the ACA from the beginning. The reason so many believe the Repug lies is because that is what they have been hearing over and over incessantly from the crazies on the right.
DScully, Yes, and they will double down on that damn lie from now on through October. It just makes me furious.
They want no American to have anything except the very wealthy. (The ones who keep them in power for their own gains!)
Obama never countered the toxic lies from the toxic talkers and he'd better START now!
There is NO TAX raise on the middle class let along the largest in history! Drill baby is lying as usual . That's all he does.
@India
Drill is simply repeating the new Repug talking point lies about Obamacare now. It's the same lie that all of the Repugs/TEApugs are now telling... since the SCOTUS ruled in favor of Obamacare by calling the penalty fee a tax. Which doesn't really matter since the Congress is allowed to levy taxes which is why Justice Roberts found the ACA Constitutional.
You know what idiots they all are when it comes to the word "TAX". It sends them all into an apoplectic seizure, foaming and frothing at the mouth. Because of that Grover Norquist curse.... that makes them all loose their minds when they merely hear that word... TAX.
The best explanation of the mandate, or actually the NON-mandate... because the ACA has a mandate in "word only" without any real enforcement mechanism has been done a numerous occasions by Lawrence O. You might have already seen this before, but it's good to listen to again.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45755883/vp/47989648#47972054
And of course as you and I know, there is NO TAX INCREASE in the ACA, there isn't even an enforceable fine. And it is certainly NOT A HUGE TAX INCREASE TO ALL AMERICANS, as the LIE the Repugs/TEApugs are currently spreading to their brain dead followers says to misinform and fear-monger.
can't wait to watch Nancy Pelosi on the show tonight!
GUTS & GLORY!
DEMO President OBAMA has GUTS? Republican Blacks has no GUTS? Why they
take the easy road & Drive truck 4 Mr Daisy? Abnjd/Just asking/pot-p/pot-s?
Absolutely yes ! For decades this has been put on the back burner and finally its reality! THE SUPREME COURT VOTES ITS CONSTITUTIONAL!
Hi Pam!!
Ditto. No waiting for coverage while the plan gets improved. <s>
Everyone REMEMBER ~ Medicare will be PAID FOR 100% for the 1ST 3YEARS !!!!! Then it goes down by a COUPLE OF POINTS per YEAR !!!!! This is the HIGHEST FEDERAL PAYMENT EVER to the STATES !!!!!
And NO ONE has to CHANGE their INSURANCE CARRIER , if they like them ! But REMEMBER , NO MORE LIFETIME CAPS on COVERAGE ! , NO MORE PRE-EXSISTING DISEASES that will NOT LET YOU GET INS. !! YOU NOW can TAKE YOUR INS. WITH YOU if You leave/FIRED a JOB !! KIDS stay on PARENTS INS. UNTILL they are 26YEARS OLD !!! WE99% NOW can GO past BORDERS for the BEST DEAL !!!! It is NOT a JOB KILLER !! PLUS MORE BENIFITS !!!!!!!!
This is a WIN WIN for the 99% !!! And AMERICA !!! VOTE DEM !!!!!! OCCUPY THE VOTE !!! BOTH HOUSES !! Get RID of ALL who want to DESTROY AMERICA and the WORKING CLASS !!!!!! BE STRONG 99% !!!!
Hi, Pam and Kathe, What a great day for Americans! Thank you Justice Roberts!
Thank you President Obama! THANK YOU!!!
OBAMA 2012! Oh, YEAH!
The only jobs this will end up killing, is in the health insurance industry - those who decide who gets covered and who gets rejected or dropped...
and yes rachel it is a great day for the american people today.
Hey Billie--It sure is--justice will prevail
@David J
Most definitely.... it kills jobs of those on the Insurance DEATH PANELS.
Any poems come to mind about Justice Roberts heroic decision... after all of his courts past mistakes favoring corporations?
I cant wait for the debates and I can't wait for Nov 2012
OBAMA/BIDEN and DEMS WILL rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
President Barack Obama hailed a Supreme Court opinion upholding his signature health reform law as "a victory for people all over this country,".
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/28/12459499-obama-calls-court-ruling-a-victory-for-us-as-romney-vows-repeal?lite/
GUTS & GLORY?
GUTS & GLORY!
DEMO President OBAMA has GUTS? Republican Blacks has no GUTS? Why they
take the easy road & Drive truck 4 Mr Daisy? Abnjd/Just asking/pot-p/pot-s?
It was the right decision to get Romney elected
65% of America want Obama care repelled now the only way for that to happen is to vote for Romney
Just today alone 20,000 people sent him 2 million dollars to help him get elected because of this decission
You remember in 2010 how the Tea Party was able to take over the house as a result of Obama care
Nah! The only way willard can win is for the gop to cheat, again.
That is all they do is cheat. But we will not let them willard into the white house. He can say in one of his many homes. Do you think he would go to work everyday? Ha! He has never had a job.
I don't think it will work this time.
jr:
Reading your copy of the Book of Mormon yet? Ready to be a missionary for Willard?
We can only hope that $$$$ won't buy the 2012 elections.
Obama/Biden and all Dems for 2012 !!!!
TRF:: 65% of America want Obama care repelled? No, 65% of America want Mutt Robme and Barrel Issa repelled. And probably all 65% of them have the bug spray to repel them-- and the sooner the better.
Do you know how to check your spelling? Evidently not.
TRF Jr,
Mitt Romney has lied to each and every American at one time or another - how does anyone know what he will lie about now?
You want to vote for a man who will lie to your face - with a smile.
You want to vote for a man who, even while governor, has no problem sending American Jobs overseas or off shore. You remember that ad he was running on Youtube yesterday - the ARCO executive add - he pulled it almost immediately. Did you wonder why - probably not. Now, go online and look up ARCO. Then look at where they are based out of. That will answer why he pulled the ad so fast. Don't forget - you do not know the difference between outsourcing and off shoring. He is so depending on you and people like you not truly taking a hard look at him. He is depending solely and wholeheartedly on Republican loyalism ONLY! So, he lies to your face with a smile. Tells you exactly what YOU want to hear. That is YOUR hero!
willard liar romney did a great job as he lied to all the American People in his speech this morning. It is on record. I'm waiting for the Obama team to take willard's lies and interlace them with Obamas truths in his speech and we will see it for ourselves.
Hope they enjoyed wasting their money.
Its AMAZING !!! That the EVANGELECALS are NOW going to FORGET ABOUT GOD , in order to Vote for ROBME !!!! MORMONS DO NOT BELIEVE in the FATHER-SON and HOLY GHOST !!!!!! They took GOD/JESUS and claimed THEY WERE THEIRS ONLY - You know ( MORMON JESUS and MORMON GOD ) just like they TOOK GHANDI and made HIM - MORMON GHANDI !!!!! Take a LOOK on YOUTUBE !! Or GOOGLE IT !!!!
@ TRF # 8 : Mitt Romney is done now, he will never become President of USA , may be of Mexico.
Sen thats RIGHT !!! After ALL ~ ROBME was BORN IN MEXICO !!!!!!!!!!!!
TRFjr~~The American people who want what is in their best interest, will never vote for Romney or any republican now that they know the facts of their benefits, in "Obamacare" No one will want to go back to being denied coverage, due to having a pre-existing condition. No one wants to go back to having their health care payment denied due to having reached a cap. Everyone is enjoying the fact that the insurance provider has to spend 80% of the premium on health care received, if not they must refund the difference to the policy holder. No parents will want to have their children, who can now remain on their policy untill 26 years of age, to have to revert back to having no insurance. I do not believe Romney has 20,000 people who contribute to him, but I don't doubt he received $2 million today, Kochs, Carl Rove, Freedom works etc. Yes I remember how asinine the tea partiers were with their radically, disrupting of town halls in 2010. I also remember how speechless the dems were, when they should have been calling them out and escorting them out. Hopefully, by now, more of those people who contributed to that un-civil, radical behavior, have regained civility and understand America deserves better. They have NOT repealed "Obamacare" and they are not going to. They are just going to continue lying about how bad "Obamacare" is to their low information base, to get them worked up, hoping they will again, vote against their own best interest, and vote tea-gop. They do not want us to have medicare either, never have, never will. People need to wake up and understand, the republicans are not for the people, they are only for their wealthy owners
I don't know who all these Americans are that are against this health care bill, but no one has asked myself, my family,or my friends how they feel about it. How about the rest of you?? The Rep. say it often enough thinking that will make it so. Those that hate it must be the wealthy, and the uneducated, those who spend the day watching Fox News. those that hate it --just because they are Rep. --Your Rep. party is no more this is now the tea-party!!
Five of them did.
Thank you Chief Justice Roberts!!!!
Is that to make up for Citizens United?
Then we have 17 dems who didn't.....http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120628142742AAey4kG
Additional Details
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002872913#post3
H RES 711 RECORDED VOTE 28-Jun-2012 4:39 PM
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution
BILL TITLE: Recommending that the House of Representatives find Eric H. Holder Jr., Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, in contempt of Congress for refusal to comply with a subpoena duly issued by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Ayes Noes PRES NV
238 02 0 001 Republican
017 65 1 108 Democratic
Independent
255 67 1 109 TOTALS"
DEMOCRATS VOTING AYE:
Altmire
Barrow
Boren
Boswell
Chandler
Critz
Donnelly (IN)
Hochul
Kind
Kissell
Matheson
McIntyre
Owens
Peterson
Rahall
Ross
Walz
http://www.house.gov/representatives/ Send them a note or give them a call.
Thats 17 "chickens" and to scared to stand up to the nrapucks.
Here you are MD.....http://walz.house.gov/ Walz - Mi.
Thankful, they voted against Holder simply and solely because of the NRA.
I am so tired of these rich b@$+@^)$ having so much control over our politicians. I think from here on in - if ANY politician signs a petition with ANY interest group - we need to vote them out of office - or not vote for them at all, PERIOD!!!!!
We need to send money a message - loud and clear - we are tired of them writing the agenda for the American people in the name of just a few people. The NRA helped cause the fast and furious problem simply by demanding that politicians have lax gun laws. When the NFTA cannot arrest a man on food stamps for buying a $10,000 gun (where did he get that money from) and then watching that man turn around and sell it to someone else - which is the very definition of gun running - because the prosecutor says what the man did was legal according to Arizona law - well, then the problem is not the fast and furious program - the problem is the law that allowed the prosecutor to declare that this man on food stamps could not be arrested.
And for ISSA to ignore all of that simply because he just wants to go after the administration - is absolutely unconscionable.
Ross from Arkansashttp://ross.house.gov/
Nick Rahall, West Virginia..http://rahall.house.gov/
http://grist.org/article/should-wilderness-society-strip-rahall-of-award/
MD.....another one for you Peterson? - http://collinpeterson.house.gov/
Owens, New York.....http://owens.house.gov/
McIntyre North Carolina -http://www.mcintyre.house.gov/ No Dem Convention there.
Matheson, Utah...http://matheson.house.gov/#dialog
Kissel- North Carolina.....http://kissell.house.gov/
Thanks TM---Every one Please give these Sell Out NRA Cowards a Call---The Democrats only--we expect it from the Repub -Thugs. These Democrats threw their own under a Mac Truck, and left him to bleed to death. Just for their own selfish gain.-I hope none of my contributions to the DNC is given to them.. -Make sure you ask for "JUDAS".
REMEMBER these NAMES ! And DONT VOTE FOR THEIR AYES on AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE ACT !!!!! Lets GET RID of ALL the BLUE DOGS !! NO MONEY for VOTING with the REPULSICON PARTY !!!!! And the NRA needs to be put on check - What are they doing DEALING ON OUR HEALTHCARE ????????? DEMS have NOT SAID 1 THING about GUNS in the LAST 10 or more years ! Except that we want to KNOW ~ WHO HAS THE GUNS ?!!!!!!
DEMOCRATS VOTING AYE:
Altmire
Barrow
Boren
Boswell
Chandler
Critz
Donnelly (IN)
Hochul
Kind
Kissell
Matheson
McIntyre
Owens
Peterson
Rahall
Ross
Walz
The NRA has way too much money & power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Thankful Mom and TOYBB
I have nothing to do tomorrow between 8am and 12pm so I will be busy working on a 'form' complaint letter to all these guys.
The NRA is a corrupt, murderous bully whose lobbyists exert control over our congress. That is an outrage which should not be permitted in a civilized country!
Speaking of civilized countries, it has taken us 65 years to catch up with other western, civilized countries. That is way too long and we won't be caught up until not one American ever loses their home over an illness! We have a way to go, but now at least we are on the high road and and heading in the right direction: The moral high ground where we should have been years ago but for GREED and CORRUPTION! It is time to put people's needs over insurance company's PROFITS!
Seems to me that should always have been a no brainer. Time for the GOP to take a break from hurting America.
I have a phone, Ethelouise, with endless long distance calling. I can fit in a lot of them along with email. Etc.
Yes they did voet correctly. I am truly surprised that Roberts unheld the law. I figured he would go the way of the right wing. Thomas, Scalia, Scalito and Kennedy were all duds.
I still want single payer health care. It is still needed, especially in red states that won't expand Medicaid to make sure everyone is covered.
Roberts just made MIT a lock for the Presidency- Every business that will be taxed will vote for him.
Yes they did!
They definitely made the right choice. I have to admit that I had my doubts about them, but I applaud Justice Roberts
When the cost of health care increases, and the quality/availability of health care decreases, what will you Democrats blame then? How can you Democrats cheer about the largest tax increase ever, when we are in the worst recession ever? How do you get around the fact that your President swore it would not be a tax increase? Oh I forgot you still believe it is going to result in people who are uninsured, becoming insured, when in fact people who are insured are more likely to lose their current coverage. You Progressives are all so busy telling each other how cool you are, that you cannot even imagine reality. D for Democrat, and Denial. Here is a dose of reality for ya, 88 people have voted in your online poll, lol. See you in November, when all your 87 votes will win the day for Obama.
See ya.
follow up to my comment, jumped over to the Fox news current poll about the Health care decision, and see that 34,000 had voted, so like l said, see you in November.
Tissue - Just Think - Now All Of You teabagged-gop-neo-cons can seek the Mental Health-Care that You ALL Require !!!!! Ha haaaaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!
Chuck,
We are currently there now. When compared to other industrialized countries, we have the most expensive healthcare out there and have the unhealthiest citizens at the same time. So you point would be?
Why did you cheer for four tax cuts for the richest Americans? Now Ryan wants to pay for more taxcuts for those not needing by increasing taxes on the poor. maybe you can call Ryan and ask him to give us the SAME health plan he has, paid for by us, not him.
Chuck T You forgot to finish:R is for Republican! Also recheck your numbers. There were over 3000, not 88.
@Chuck
Our deficiet is larger due to the tax cuts that you 'enjoy' now. The tax rate has to go up not entirely due to spending but to whats not being collected. We have been at war and that war has not been paid for, also we are the most unhealthest country in the world and I know that republicans always want to blame the victim but you know victims need help too.
If we take care of health care now then we won't have to pay for it later like Regan did when the AIDS outbreak first happened in Africa he 'ignored' it, well we all paid for that later didn't we?
Chuck,
Why do you think Ryan and the other Republican politicians have no problem getting rid of Medicare and Obamacare - BECAUSE THEY ALREADY HAVE GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTHCARE THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR! And your response is - Mr. Ryan, my fellow Republicans - go for it - take away all healthcare for all Americans - leave all Americans at the Mercy of the Insurance Company bureaucracies! And yes, Mr. Ryan and my fellow Republican politicians - I will continue to pay for your healthcare for the rest of your life!!!!
Obamacare is the closest we have ever come to having an upper hand over the insurance companies, finally - and you complain about that, wow!
This country ranked, among developed nations, at a low 37 after all those nation's health care systems were evaluated. Doubt we could sink much lower. This gives us a chance at a good health care system better than the old one that was mostly determined by how the insurance companies allowed health care to be delivered here. I hope by the time I die we will see a universal system like other countries have. Having traveled to many countries that have it, meeting with medical people and the regular working people, I have been told over and over that they love it. THEY don't go bankrupt from having catastrophic illness or accidents like Americans do. Their infant mortality rates are lower, people live longer and they have a great preventative health care system. The Affordable Care Act is a move to give us a better system and hope that the date of incorporating all aspects moves closer than the 2014 the repubs demanded.
Can we make Scalia eat his broccoli now???
Only if we can put a little arsenic cheese sauce on it!
I would rather see him retire.
@Mary Ellen
I would love to see him retire.
Absolutely, anyone who does not think so is not in favor of equal rights for all Americans. Everyone should have the right to health care. No one should be denied the right to preventive care or care.
Someone said that this was too long in coming and I agree however, here it comes again folks. My major concern is the mandate that everyone be forced to buy government approved health insurance or face a 2.5% of your income penalty. This truly bothers me!
that income tax part of it won't even be enforced. your not being forced to buy anything you don't want, it just means you will be able to afford when and if you do.
FINugmegger,
The Republicans are scarring you - it is not that general at ALL!!!!! For the poor and nonworking - that is where the extended Medicare comes in. The mandate is ONLY going to be for those who can already afford it and are choosing NOT to buy it. It actually starts at a specific earnings level.
DON'T LISTEN TO THE REPUBLICANS - THEY HAVE LIED ABOUT "OBAMACARE" FROM THE VERY BEGINNING - DON'T LET THEM DUPE YOU MORE!
FINutmegger, That is not true. If you need insurance and can't afford it, under Obamacare, the government helps you buy it. For people who can afford it, and choose to be irresponsible and let the rest of us pay higher costs for their irresponsibility, there is a small tax, which is not enforceable. In short, they can't make you pay it. (That would affect maybe 1% of the population. That's all.) A VERY small percentage would ever even get that tax, like 1%, and even they wouldn't be forced to pay it.
You are correct..............
Thanks. I pay attention to the facts, that's why I get it right.
yes the supreme court did the right thing today. thank you and thank you justice roberts.
all i know is obamacare means obama cares.
And willard don't give us a care.
and we don't care about mutt either mom.
Goodnight everyone. I will sleep real sound tonight! Thank you, Justice Roberts!
How can mandating health insurance be unconstitutional and mandatory auto insurance be contitutional? Most states mandate auto insurance to drive a car but not health insurance to go into the hospital. When non-insured patients go to the emergency room with no health care, we all pay with higher prices so now, we all win or should with lower prices.
You don't have to have auto insurance, just don't drive. Maybe the same can be done with health insurance, just don't get sick.
Very good point!!!
Republican party are fighting this because they can not get their pockets lined from the Health Insurance Co's now
Wilma = BINGO !!!!!
Did the Supreme Court do the right thing? Yes, Yes, and Yes. With this law I will have to think about all of the Americans who had to suffer at the hands of the insurance agenies dropping them when they got sick or force millions of them into bankruptcy. Go Obama 2012!!
AND those of us who have pre-existing conditions can no longer be turned down - even when we were willing to pay the premium!
And those of us who are old and decrepid can appreciate it!