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07/03/2012

terence francis

More 'Timmy Colling' bumper-sticker speak. Shallow, simplistic and cliche.


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06/29/2012

Carol Frandsen

Thank you Linda! Wanted to spell it out but my blood pressure was going up. It may not be the best but its a start. And health care reform is here and coming full stepped for improvement--so everyone needs to take their heads out of the sand and realize, hopefully, that we have finally stepped into the 21st century. the rest of the world has been there for a long time.


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06/29/2012

Linda Dawal

I can't believe how stupid some people can be?! Do you really know anything about health insurance?
Obama's health reform will save the people and our government money. How you ask? Right now the uninsured and a lot of Medi-Cal recipient flood our hospital emergency rooms that cost at least 4 times as much to walk in the door than a urgent care clinic or doctors office. Most of the uninsured make it impossible to collect the debt by giving false personal information. A lot of people with Medi-Cal will go to the ER for a stuffy nose and in the past Medi-Cal had to pay.
Now people with Medi-Cal are assigned to HMO insurances and there are restrictions, so if you use the ER for something other than "A REAL EMERGENCY" the patient will be liable for the bill.
Before we had Health Reform everyone cried "I can't afford health insurance and I was tuned down because of pre-existing" . Now you're complaining because our GREAT PRESIDENT has found a way for EVERYONE to afford to have coverage.


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06/28/2012

Carol Frandsen

Yes, a "disaster", until you or a family member needs it. Then you may change your tune.


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06/28/2012

Al Davis

This is a disaster. The ACA is a flawed plan which will bankrupt the country, but that isn't the real problem.

Giving the federal government the ability to control Americans' spending habits opens the floodgates to the crony capitalists who will convince (i.e. buy) Congress to use this precedent to require Americans to purchase all manner of goods and services in the name of "national well being" or "social justice" or whatever other term they can conjure up.

Justice Aleto's analogy of forcing Americans to buy broccoli is silly, not because it won't happen, but because he didn't think big enough. It will only be a matter of time before we are forced to buy solar panels, windmills, or electric cars; gym memberships, nhanced internet access, certain cell phone features - any number of things which will, of course, be declared "vital" to "the public interest". Perhaps a government -connected security camera on every house. The list is endless.


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06/28/2012

Tim Colling

"The power to tax is the power to destroy,"

by SCOTUS John Marshall


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06/28/2012

Tim Colling

I expected that the CHCF would applaud this decision, and they delivered on my expectation. This is a terrible thing for the country but those who believe in big government supplying all our needs and having the power to tax away all our belongings are very pleased by it.


 
 

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