Given their consistent approach -- DanTheFan 04/19/2016 12:36PM
Heard a report yesterday that suggested that should it fully exit -- 111Balz 04/19/2016 10:42AM
Re: Heard a report yesterday that suggested that should it fully exit -- Doug 04/19/2016 12:02PM
You mean back when most people were dead before they hit 60, -- WahooRQ 04/19/2016 3:35PM
You conflate health care (sure, there have been advances in -- Doug 04/20/2016 12:52PM
People didn't pay for healthcare through insurance in the past because -- WahooRQ 04/20/2016 5:07PM
There's no longer any "conflation" for most Americans -- 111Balz 04/20/2016 1:02PM
When my grandfather was a practicing rural physician -- Faz d. Hoo 04/19/2016 3:11PM
Yup - Key is harsher punishments. If people won't voluntarily -- RML Hoos 04/19/2016 10:57AM
Liike for defense, education, roads, government infrastructure -- 111Balz 04/19/2016 11:03AM
Right, but those are things that generally (at least one time or another) -- Doug 04/19/2016 12:17PM
There were no lies only chnages to the oirginal plan -- 111Balz 04/19/2016 12:28PM
Of course those are taxes and public items. If you want to force people to -- RML Hoos 04/19/2016 11:24AM
I believe basic health care IS as much a core need as defense, education -- 111Balz 04/19/2016 12:22PM
And that's where the problems begin - defining "basic". I suspect you and I -- Hoodafan 04/19/2016 1:32PM
I bet we're not that far apart. Basic for me means -- 111Balz 04/19/2016 9:08PM
Where is that blank check clause in the Constitution? ** -- Hokie5150 04/19/2016 1:06PM
Next to the right to own slaves, and how a militia is all we need for -- 111Balz 04/19/2016 9:15PM
LOL ** -- hoothat 04/19/2016 11:23AM
Paging Dan and Balz......please insert the regime talking points -- TomKazanski 04/19/2016 10:40AM
The talking points were for the initial sales job...the unstated goal was -- Tuckahokie 04/19/2016 10:45AM
No. -- DanTheFan 04/19/2016 11:57AM
So given the ACA was originally a GOP plan, you're accusing the GOP of -- 111Balz 04/19/2016 10:52AM
Sure...GOP is as complicit in the growth of GOVCO as the Dems...they may -- Tuckahokie 04/19/2016 10:58AM
A GOP plan that went nowhere within the GOP...The Dems own this mess 100% ** -- Moneyshot 04/19/2016 10:55AM
They'll always prefer the poor just get sick and die. Cruz is really -- Shenhoo 04/19/2016 11:24AM
This is so true. If the govenment doesn't solve the problem then it will n -- RML Hoos 04/19/2016 11:52AM
How was the free market serving the people who cannot afford insurance? ** -- Shenhoo 04/19/2016 3:52PM
Exactly. No one was or is willing to do anything to directly help -- RML Hoos 04/19/2016 6:16PM
Hint: the passive aggressive thingy ain't working ** -- 111Balz 04/20/2016 08:38AM
Sure but only a fool would think "the market" will magically deliver health -- WahooRQ 04/19/2016 12:15PM
The only reason it doesn't work that way is because of governmental -- Hokie5150 04/19/2016 1:10PM
Little chance the health care market would service low income people -- KCHoo 04/19/2016 3:40PM
Nor the sick or injured ** -- 111Balz 04/19/2016 9:17PM
Other than by legislating morality, why can't people convince other people -- ryno hoo 04/19/2016 6:20PM
We already do that. Always have. Doesn't work well. Universal health care -- 111Balz 04/19/2016 9:12PM
Exactly. No heath care worker would ever think -- RML Hoos 04/19/2016 1:08PM
Name a developed country that has a purely private healthcare system. -- WahooRQ 04/19/2016 1:12PM
Absurd ** -- ryno hoo 04/19/2016 1:03PM
In the future, could you please add TIC to the bottom of these post -- Hoodafan 04/19/2016 11:59AM
The Repubs have been working very hard to make it into a mess. -- WahooRQ 04/19/2016 11:20AM
Remind me again of all of those Dem politicians calling for an increase -- Moneyshot 04/19/2016 11:42AM
The Demns had to survive a stupid consitutional challenge just on what they -- WahooRQ 04/19/2016 12:08PM
So you can't think of any Dems willing to adress the REAL issue either... -- Moneyshot 04/19/2016 12:34PM
I don't see where that is the REAL issue (all caps) as you state. -- WahooRQ 04/19/2016 1:05PM
Of course its the real issue... -- Moneyshot 04/19/2016 1:13PM
I'd say cutting the numbers of uninsured in half in 2 years is good -- WahooRQ 04/19/2016 1:20PM
The equilibrium you reference is a "political" problem -- Moneyshot 04/19/2016 1:41PM
The question that needs to be asked is whether or not increased insurance -- Hokie5150 04/19/2016 1:30PM
It is the GOP's fault that Health Insurance has doubled in cost in only -- Tuckahokie 04/19/2016 11:36AM
It's funny how this only happens to republicans. Must be a vast left wing -- SixerHoo 04/19/2016 11:40AM
Nope...but sometimes I wish I did ** -- Tuckahokie 04/19/2016 11:45AM
What's odd is that every R's premiums have tripled, yet the overall -- Shenhoo 04/19/2016 11:43AM
What's more amazing is that Ds have been completely unaffected by the -- Hokie5150 04/19/2016 12:11PM
Hey--somebody has to keep the average in the single digits as -- Shenhoo 04/19/2016 5:49PM
You keep repeating this single digit line as if its true -- TomKazanski 04/19/2016 6:19PM
Here's data from the "Insurance Journal." -- Shenhoo 04/19/2016 8:00PM
That is looking at a subset and a subset of company -- TomKazanski 04/20/2016 10:03AM
Counter one distortion with another distortion? Yep, my premium went up -- Hoodafan 04/19/2016 11:55AM
Don't forget the "cadillac tax" and LTCG surtax.... -- Moneyshot 04/19/2016 12:03PM
And I assume like all our Govco administrative costs, the portion of that -- Hoodafan 04/19/2016 12:11PM
The Dems in my office do not seem very happy with the increases and the -- Tuckahokie 04/19/2016 11:48AM
Why? You either are incapable of understanding -- 111Balz 04/19/2016 10:44AM