NuRayZ said:
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That figure you gave includes the 12-20 million ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. When you remove the illegal immigrants and the people under 30 that don’t want or need insurance then the number of uninsured is actually quite low. Much lower than what most lead you to think.
O btw I’m not a douchbag. If someone doesn’t want insurance then I’m not going to change the entire system and rape those who have insurance to force it on them. If someone isn’t legally in this country, why should I pay taxes to cover them. When they revoke the automatic citizenship given to illegals born in this country that alone will fix most of the cost-related healthcare issues in 4-5 years.
It has been estimated that millions of people who have insurance and are HAPPY with it will lose it due to cost increases and employer forcing them off company plans. What about them? Acceptable losses for the greater good?
Also, what happens when BCBS can’t compete with the government plans and you lose your insurance. Will you be happy?
Also answer this, when all the current insurance companies go out of business and there is no alternative to government healthcare will you deflect blame when it turns out like every other government-run entity?
The government will only have to pay 60-75% the cost insurance companies will have to pay for the same proceedures, there’ll be no way they can compete. I assume you think that’s fair market practice.
Also, what happens when drug companies stop doing research? When you pay “too much” for drugs you are essentially donating to the development of future medicine but under the forced low costs of the government plan drug companies won’t be able to pay for research. Also, you remember all that poisoned Chinese dog food? Well under Obamacare they’ll be making your pharmaceuticals. What happens when instead of thousands of dogs dying, hundreds of thousands of Americans die because cost cutting in China ended up with toxins in your blood pressure medicine. Only an idiot would think that would never happen.
Back to the real topic though, how is that a gaffe? Obama has said virtually the same and his congress is spending insane amounts of money. Now if Obama and congress weren’t spending many times more than the “retarded” Bush I would be inclined to let this slide but the facts show that the one thing this isn’t is a gaffe.