Healthcare Reform

[Mugsy]

Well...me mums boyfriend tore his achilles tendon playing basketball, while on vacation. He has no insurance. They would only insure him on major medical, and guess what. The emergency surgery needed to fix it, isn't covered.
Hopefully he'll be able to rehab it enough to do his landscaping business in the spring, or he'll be living off of me mum.
Health care in this country SUCKS!!!

[Spaz]

Yep it does,but its only like that cause of all the bullshit attached to it and Govt. regulations .

And now we have our hospitals here being slammed with Haitian refugees
thats fucked up and this govt. we have is to fucking stupid to see the problems
with bringing these people here.. It sucks for the people there and it is a terrible thing
but if you heard the show today at the almost 1 billion dollars we have gave the Haitians.
WHY DO THEY NOT HAVE HOSPITALS !?! How are they not prepared knowing
they live on a fault line ?

[Spaz]

got some time give it a read ............
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Rep...constitutional

n theory, the proposed mandate for individuals to purchase health insurance could be severed from the rest of the 2,000-plus-page "reform" bill. The legislation's key sponsors, however, have made it clear that the mandate is an integral, indeed "essential," part of the bill.[54] After all, the revenues paid by conscripted citizens to the insurance companies are needed to compensate for the increased costs imposed upon these companies and the health care industry by the myriad regulations of this bill.

The very reason why an unpopular health insurance mandate has been included in these bills shows why, if it is held unconstitutional, the remainder of the scheme will prove politically and economically disastrous. Members need only recall how the Supreme Court's decision in Buckley v. Valeo--which invalidated caps on campaign spending as unconstitutional, while leaving the rest of the scheme intact--has created 30 plus years of incoherent and pernicious regulations of campaign financing and the need for repeated "reforms." Only this time, the public is aligned against a scheme that will require repeated unpopular votes, especially to raise taxes to compensate for the absence of the health insurance mandate.

These political considerations are beyond the scope of this paper, and the expertise of its authors. But Senators and Representatives need to know that, despite what they have been told, the health insurance mandate is highly vulnerable to challenge because it is, in truth, unconstitutional. And political considerations aside, each legislator owes a duty to uphold the Constitution.