Lew Hodgett wrote:
"Tom Veatch" wrote:

I don't believe congress is talking about forcing you or me to buy
fire insurance on pain of confiscatory fines. (local fire
departments
don't equate to fire insurance, by the way)

More IBS (Intellectual Bull ****).

1) What is being proposed is that everyone must purchase health
insurance.

2) If you can not afford to buy health insurance, tax rebates,
incentives, etc will be provided to help offset the cost of health
insurance.

Yeah, somebody making minimum wage is going to be paying enough taxes that
tax rebates will offset the cost of insurance. Right. Sure they will.

Obama's plan is basically saying "it's more important to have medical
insurance than to have food on the table and a roof over your head and be
warm in the winter". Just one more way to guarantee that the poor stay
poor. People who have never been poor don't quite grasp the concept.