It was the same way when Democrats opposed Prescription Plan D and when Bush was in office how Republicans would push legislation Democrats opposed when they had in fact passed similar legislation themselves.
Simple fact... the states have the right to pass such mandates individually... the federal government does not have that right to pass such a mandate on the states. So the comparison and criticism of Romney is in fact based in ignorance as he had such right in Massachusetts which I understand is in deep financial trouble much like California... ironic that the two biggest Democrat states in the nation are also two of the biggest states in financial trouble isn't it?
I always love to watch Democrats prove themselves to be hypocrits whining and complaining proving no different than they claim Republicans are.
Fact...
In my state of Alabama, we mandated that everyone has to have auto insurance.
Fact...
Within a year of doing this, the cost of auto repair began to skyrocket. It turned out that auto repair was held down in cost for the simple fact that most people paid out of pocket for repairs and the costs had to be kept low or they would just fix their engine troubles themselves or go to a junkyard to find fenders or things like doors to replace parts of the body its...
Simple fact... the states have the right to pass such mandates individually... the federal government does not have that right to pass such a mandate on the states. So the comparison and criticism of Romney is in fact based in ignorance as he had such right in Massachusetts which I understand is in deep financial trouble much like California... ironic that the two biggest Democrat states in the nation are also two of the biggest states in financial trouble isn't it?
I always love to watch Democrats prove themselves to be hypocrits whining and complaining proving no different than they claim Republicans are.
Fact...
In my state of Alabama, we mandated that everyone has to have auto insurance.
Fact...
Within a year of doing this, the cost of auto repair began to skyrocket. It turned out that auto repair was held down in cost for the simple fact that most people paid out of pocket for repairs and the costs had to be kept low or they would just fix their engine troubles themselves or go to a junkyard to find fenders or things like doors to replace parts of the body its...
It was the same way when Democrats opposed Prescription Plan D and when Bush was in office how Republicans would push legislation Democrats opposed when they had in fact passed similar legislation themselves.
Simple fact... the states have the right to pass such mandates individually... the federal government does not have that right to pass such a mandate on the states. So the comparison and criticism of Romney is in fact based in ignorance as he had such right in Massachusetts which I understand is in deep financial trouble much like California... ironic that the two biggest Democrat states in the nation are also two of the biggest states in financial trouble isn't it?
I always love to watch Democrats prove themselves to be hypocrits whining and complaining proving no different than they claim Republicans are.
Fact...
In my state of Alabama, we mandated that everyone has to have auto insurance.
Fact...
Within a year of doing this, the cost of auto repair began to skyrocket. It turned out that auto repair was held down in cost for the simple fact that most people paid out of pocket for repairs and the costs had to be kept low or they would just fix their engine troubles themselves or go to a junkyard to find fenders or things like doors to replace parts of the body itself. This is Alabama and we're very self reliant in these areas. However, once it was mandated that we all had to have auto insurance, the auto repair specialists began raising their rates through the rood because insurance companies had to pay them. Then the insurance rates went up as well when they were supposed to go down due to competition... there's no competition when everyone has to buy auto insurance and insurance providers have to pay higher and higher costs. The reason is a simple one... there's not that many auto insurance providers so they can survive on the profits they make even if they lose half their customers as with a mandate, they can just change a few business practices and the customers will be back later.
Then there's the fact if it costs too much to fix, they'll declare your car a total loss so you have to fix it yourself or they can legally force you to turn over the keys to your car and pay you the blue book resale value to put a down payment on a new car because it won't even be enough money to get a good used car in most cases since the blue book value is always less than the actual selling price. Then there's the fact you have to buy insurance for every car you have so that even if you don't drive it other than in an emergency or it's just sitting in your yard with no tires on it, gotta have insurance so that in turn hurt new auto sales because many wouldn't buy new cars and those who did unloaded their old ones so people who need a car can buy used ones far cheaper than new ones.
Like with auto insurance, our doctors and hospitals set their prices and no one controls this but them. A mandate to buy health insurance will have the exact same results as buying a mandate to buy auto insurance for that reason.
Democrats tend to be very ignorant about these issues. They kept comparing us to England, Canada and even France... all three nations have limits on what you can charge for health care because it's controlled by the government... that's not the case in the US. They also cap the cost of prescription medications which is why people like myself were outraged by Obama's secret deal with Big Pharma because he eliminated the possibility of our doing that.
The health care plan proposed by President Obama and passed by the Senate lacks the two most important elements that make universal health care possible with the first being price controls and the second being lack of understanding about the free market system.
Many say Obama can do this? If you cross state lines with an underage person without permission by legal guardians... you are in violation of the law because the states alone provide for the well being and safety of their citizens. We hear about these kind of incidents all the time and yet for some reason it just didn't sink in with health care.
The reason you can't sell health care insurance across state lines is that private health care is governed by each individual state. Each state in turn has the sole given right to protect the safety and well being of their citizens... creates a conflict of interest. This is also why police in one state have no jurisdiction in another state.
Think what you will... the Tenth Amendment holds governance here and Obama's promises are about to hit a brick wall.
(more)Simple fact... the states have the right to pass such mandates individually... the federal government does not have that right to pass such a mandate on the states. So the comparison and criticism of Romney is in fact based in ignorance as he had such right in Massachusetts which I understand is in deep financial trouble much like California... ironic that the two biggest Democrat states in the nation are also two of the biggest states in financial trouble isn't it?
I always love to watch Democrats prove themselves to be hypocrits whining and complaining proving no different than they claim Republicans are.
Fact...
In my state of Alabama, we mandated that everyone has to have auto insurance.
Fact...
Within a year of doing this, the cost of auto repair began to skyrocket. It turned out that auto repair was held down in cost for the simple fact that most people paid out of pocket for repairs and the costs had to be kept low or they would just fix their engine troubles themselves or go to a junkyard to find fenders or things like doors to replace parts of the body itself. This is Alabama and we're very self reliant in these areas. However, once it was mandated that we all had to have auto insurance, the auto repair specialists began raising their rates through the rood because insurance companies had to pay them. Then the insurance rates went up as well when they were supposed to go down due to competition... there's no competition when everyone has to buy auto insurance and insurance providers have to pay higher and higher costs. The reason is a simple one... there's not that many auto insurance providers so they can survive on the profits they make even if they lose half their customers as with a mandate, they can just change a few business practices and the customers will be back later.
Then there's the fact if it costs too much to fix, they'll declare your car a total loss so you have to fix it yourself or they can legally force you to turn over the keys to your car and pay you the blue book resale value to put a down payment on a new car because it won't even be enough money to get a good used car in most cases since the blue book value is always less than the actual selling price. Then there's the fact you have to buy insurance for every car you have so that even if you don't drive it other than in an emergency or it's just sitting in your yard with no tires on it, gotta have insurance so that in turn hurt new auto sales because many wouldn't buy new cars and those who did unloaded their old ones so people who need a car can buy used ones far cheaper than new ones.
Like with auto insurance, our doctors and hospitals set their prices and no one controls this but them. A mandate to buy health insurance will have the exact same results as buying a mandate to buy auto insurance for that reason.
Democrats tend to be very ignorant about these issues. They kept comparing us to England, Canada and even France... all three nations have limits on what you can charge for health care because it's controlled by the government... that's not the case in the US. They also cap the cost of prescription medications which is why people like myself were outraged by Obama's secret deal with Big Pharma because he eliminated the possibility of our doing that.
The health care plan proposed by President Obama and passed by the Senate lacks the two most important elements that make universal health care possible with the first being price controls and the second being lack of understanding about the free market system.
Many say Obama can do this? If you cross state lines with an underage person without permission by legal guardians... you are in violation of the law because the states alone provide for the well being and safety of their citizens. We hear about these kind of incidents all the time and yet for some reason it just didn't sink in with health care.
The reason you can't sell health care insurance across state lines is that private health care is governed by each individual state. Each state in turn has the sole given right to protect the safety and well being of their citizens... creates a conflict of interest. This is also why police in one state have no jurisdiction in another state.
Think what you will... the Tenth Amendment holds governance here and Obama's promises are about to hit a brick wall.
Hussein is the drowning man.
Anyone fighting the "Mandated" portion of Health Insurance is foolish, to say the least. I think we have to consider, a certain limit of poor people, and we may need to redefine poor. But the rich people that did so well, and paid so little taxes, for the past 8 years, can help out willingly by the 3% increase on $250,000.00 of annual income. They owe it to the working, middle and military classes that make their good lives possible.
The important part of this issue would be to remove the Corporate-Fascist Insurance Corporations, and make the entire Health Care System, a Federal, not for profit, and insurance a single-payer, universal-comprehensive, national health care program based on the highly successful Health Care in Germany.