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Opinions/Editorials Title: Laying the Groundwork for Universal Health Care Coverage But as part of that [social] contract, it is also reasonable to expect residents of the society who can do so to contribute an appropriate amount to their own health care. This translates into a requirement on individuals to enroll themselves and their dependents in at least a basic health plan – one that at the minimum should protect the rest of society from large and unexpected medical costs incurred by the family. And as any social contract, there would also be an obligation on society. To the extent that the family cannot reasonably afford reasonable basic coverage, the rest of society, via government, should take responsibility for financing that minimum coverage. The obligations on individuals does not have to be a “hard” mandate, in the sense that failure to obtain coverage would be illegal. It could be a “soft” mandate, meaning that failure to obtain coverage could result in the loss of tax benefits and other government entitlements. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest #1. To: badeye, dont eat that, skip intro, Nebuchadnezzar, war, fred mertz (#0) So if Heritage Foundation supports individual mandates, and Mitt Romney, who Rush Limbaugh believes is a Conservative, supports individual mandates, then what are Conservatives complaining about again? Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality. #2. To: go65 (#1) Conservatives liked the individual mandate until Democrats took it up. Last December, Utah's Orrin Hatch claimed that "Congress has never crossed the line between regulating what people choose to do and ordering them to do it," yet the last time Congress debated a health overhaul in 1993, Hatch was among 21 Republican Senators who supported a 1993 GOP bill requiring an individual mandate. Four of those lawmakers remain in the Senate today: Charles Grassley of Iowa, Robert Bennett of Utah and Chris Bond of Missouri.
http://www.examiner.com/x-15870-...ed-the-individual-mandate
#3. To: go65 (#1) Please quote Limbaugh stating this. Second, the problems within this insane new law are manifesting themselves almost every hour right now. Takes a while when idiots insist on passing 3000 pages without reading them first. Its the economy, stupid. As AT&T's press release demonstrates. but hey, cling to that dream world where everything Owe-bama does is God like and unquestionable. Works in my sides favor, just as the arrogance of DeLay and Hastert and Frist's worked in your in 06. 20% unemployment, 360,000 foreclosures per month. Its the economy, stupid. my anti groupie can't get through life without me. Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest |
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