Larry Jaques wrote:
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:02:30 -0400, the infamous Jack Stein
scrawled the following:

J. Clarke wrote:

Whether it works well is irrelevant. Whether one benefits is
irrelevant. The issue is the power of the government to compel someone
to purchase a commercial product. If they can order you to purchase
insurance, what prevents them from ordering you to purchase a Unisaw?
Good point. Expanding on that, what they want is "single payer" or
socialized, government controlled and owned medical system. This never
works, and is anti-American to the extreme. The US government is not to
be in the business of business. The socialist democrats have usurped GM
and Chrysler, about taken over the banking industry, education, public
transit, gambling, sports stadiums, in my state liquor stores and who
know what else.

Now they want the big enchilada, health care. People generally lose
more and more as big brother clenches his powerful, tyrannical jaws
around freedom.

Those who seek to control us are gaining ever more control. It goes
beyond politics, too. Reps put in the Patriot Acts. Dems grabbed GM,
mortgages, and some banks. Now Dems are after more of the treasury and
a life-or-death rebalancing. Scary times.

--
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we
shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
-- Samuel Butler

The plan for the health insurance companies seems to be to regulate them
until they're insolvent, then take them over because they're "too big to
fail" and now we have the government health insurance option - and the
only option. Should only take 3-5 years under the new law.