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Is forcing everyone to buy health insurance unconstitutional? Will it stop at health care? Property Insurance?
Question : Is forcing everyone to buy health insurance unconstitutional? Will it stop at health care? Property Insurance?
How about fining all the people who didn’t have home owner insurance in New Orleans? Would they be without homes today if they carried homeowners insurance or renters insurance? How about life insurance? How much debt is left that can’t be recovered by someone who doesn’t carry life insurance to cover bills? Why not target all insurances? Where will the government draw the line?
joe, buy it or face a fine. that sounds like forcing to me. how in the world do you know if this applies to me. did my name give it away?
lise, the only people I know who aren’t whining (as you put it) are the ones who don’t pay because the government is already footing their bills. Does this apply to you?
Pat, I read the part you posted. I still ask: Why not all insurances? If it applies to one facet of the insurance business, why stop with one? Do you only ask questions?
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Answer by nostradamus02012
yeah, next thing you know – everyone will be required to have automobile insurance.
wait a minute…
just to clarify to those with plastic covering on their couches:
if you want to drive in my state you need to have at least basic insurance.
it has been this way for DECADES and i have never heard anyone ever utter a peep of a complaint about it or suggest that the govt has gone power crazy because of it.
and if that wasn’t enough, here’s the other crazy thing about auto insurance – they pay their claims once they take you on as a customer and regard the contracts as (crazy them) legally binding contracts.
how nutty, they actually check you out BEFORE taking your monthly premiums (unlike health cartels – who happily take your money for years before deciding that you had a pimple when you were a kid and so they won’t pay for your cancer treatments).
once you have auto insurance they pay your claims – what a concept.
and here’s another crazy thing (that NO ONE has ever complained about) – once a year I have my car INSPECTED by a government approved inspection station. this is another thing that no one has ever complained about or suggested that is leading down the slippery road to sociocommiefascism or whatever semi-illiterate radical righties are calling it this week.
you loony cons going to get your panties into a twist over that?
insert sound of crickets here…
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#2 written by The Big E 1 year ago
You make arguments in your question that are, on the surface and at first blush, interesting but not necessarily valid. As to what applications the principle of forced health insurance will lead to in the future, one cannot accurately predict. But one thing is certain: the present health care system has proven to be inadequate to the needs of the population in general. I say this even though I do not agree with what has been proposed but laud the efforts of those who are at least trying to do something about the problem besides talking about it. I personally would take an “if you want to eat, you must help in the cooking” attitude by forcing people to sign a waiver of right to medical care even to the point of death. Their demise would then be at their own hand rather than the government’s. The downside of this modest proposal is that, given the dumbing down of the American populace as it presently is, would this proposal become a form of population control?
As to the constitutionality aspect, one grows tired of those who use it as a way of adhering to the old saw: “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with B.S.! Constitutionality is the balliwic of The Supreme Court — not us. We would just have to wait and see which way they would go. They, like the President, are only as infallible as we, the people, allow them to be.
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#3 written by Pat 1 year ago
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#6 written by goldeeloxxz 1 year ago
Yes, what the current White House administration (& the previous) have been doing is unconstitutional, we have socialist now in control of this country. Anyone who opposes their views is criticized & called names, what is happening to freedom of speech!? The deficit is soaring, unemployment is the highest in over 25 years, the value of the dollar is shrinking, prices are going up, people losing their homes at record number, the olympics is given more time than the war, the last few months have the HIGHEST death rates of our American soldiers, ….too much to list…….but the “o”bots can’t get enough of this loser who has only been on a fast track to ruin our country….he IS getting that right. Look at all the radical czars in Washington, do google search on what they stand for! Just listen to them chant, mmmm mmmm mmmm, Barack Hussein Obama!!
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#7 written by pissedoffbastard13 1 year ago
Health care is the door to fascism, and here’s how. It will give the government an excuse to ban all kinds of things it deems unhealthy, from smoking to french fries and potato chips to guns (which are filling up emergency rooms in our big city ghettos). No, it won’t stop at health care. This is only the beginning.
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#9 written by heartbeat 1 year ago
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#10 written by Peregrine 1 year ago
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First, for those who don’t understand the difference, no one is required to purchase insurance on themselves when driving an automobile. Because that would be unconstitutional. People ARE required to purchase insurance for the damage that they may do to others while driving. And not everyone drives.
Alternately, the suggestion in the Baucus bill is that everyone is required to purchase health insurance on themselves. Just because you are an american, you must therefore purchase this insurance.
The government does not have the power. The Supreme Court has already ruled on this in the past.
“In United States v. Lopez (1995), for example, the Court invalidated the Gun Free School Zones Act because that law made it a crime simply to possess a gun near a school. It did not “regulate any economic activity and did not contain any requirement that the possession of a gun have any connection to past interstate activity or a predictable impact on future commercial activity.” Of course, a health-care mandate would not regulate any “activity,” such as employment or growing pot in the bathroom, at all. Simply being an American would trigger it.”
Yes, forcing everyone to purchase health insurance on themselves is unconstitutional Obama will be violating one of his promises by signing a bill that includes it. But I doubt that will stop him…