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Originally Posted by Vexx
Sorry if I sounded grumpy... yes it would because it would actually be accountable to the public. I was just annoyed because the bill got so eviscerated and hijacked.
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Did you expect anything else out of our congress and President?
Wallstreet owns them, and the Fed Reserve owns Wallstreet.
If they were actually serious about creating a government health care system for the poor (since that what Pelosi billed this law as) then they should have just used the old
1778 Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen (warning PDF file) as a foundation from which to build a government program for the poor.
Basically just a sales tax of say 2%-5% on goods and services to pay for the poor.
If in fact the basic argument for government run health care is true, that being the large number of poor people using emergency rooms causing prices of health care to rise, then providing a government program for the poor seems like a feasible alternative.
However, if such a law attempts to mandate participation in such a program by all citizens in the USA, then no way.
The corruption, abuse of power, and costs will skyrocket.
Hell, the cronyism is already starting with businesses getting exemptions,
1168 companies are already exempt from Obamacare.
And on top of that, Obamacare is going to cost far more than first thought.
From Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypip...ost-inflation/
The whole thing is a bad joke...on us.
