State Mandates for Health Insurance: I’m Paying for WHAT!? HR 3200

I love this woman

Good points, but some food for thought:

You are also paying City/County taxes which fund local schools, yet you don’t have children nor plan to have children. Is this fair?

Well, I think she makes a little mistake here: the federal government has no authority to do away with state mandates. That’s needs to be something the people of each state push their own governments to do. But it’s correct that one of the many ways government interference inflates the cost of health care.

Car insurance premiums are determined by factors such as cars value/replacement cost/theft rate in that zip code/age of the driver ie: young speed demon or older. RISK factors based on the INDIVIDUAL car and owner. I’m not gonna pay more to help “spread the cost” for somone who drives a Cadillac Escalade when I drive a 99 RAV4. I don’t think it’s fair that a fit, healthy individual should pay to “spread the cost” of somone sittin around eatin doughnuts and McDonalds all day.

It would be like only having people that get into car accidents pay for car insurance. People that don’t have car accidents would not need to pay for any insurance???? If that were the case then there is no insurance, i.e., no spreading of risk. If only women needing in vitro fertilization had to pay for it then it is not insurance, then you just pay for it directly.

This crap bill is nothing but a government take over of the health care system. They plan to under cut the private insurance companies forcing them out of business. Creating a “public option” under which most businesses will drop their health care and tell their employees to get on the public option. Once accomplished. They’ll claim they didn’t expect most people to get on the government option and they must raise taxes to support it. Eventually culminating in an national sales tax and rationing

What is my alternative?

A combination of socialism, communism, and capitalism in form of regulation on wealth; creation of sustainable jobs for the poor; free, universal education; for small communities.

In short, a resource-based economy where the goal is to maximize efficiency by focusing on the progression of technologies.

Believe it or not, health-care, a home, an education are NOT guaranteed “rights”.

These are all privileges that we’re allowed to EARN by our own hard work, NOT someone else’s.

As for your arguments about socialism vs. capitalism. In a free-enterprise system like America (used to be), the “poor” here are MUCH better off than the “middle class” in MANY 3rd-world countries.

And because they live in a FREE system here, the “poor” have the ability to upgrade their lifestyle if they want to.

So what’s your alternative?

What possible merits does socialism have? Bigger gov’t? More welfare? The problem with Socialism lies in it’s roots- that Gov’t will take care of everybody. What people forget is that it’s IMPOSSIBLE for the gov’t to “take care of” someone without TAKING from someone else first.

That’s why it will never work. Without fail, it creates a system that rewards people for NOT working, and punishes the people who actually DO work, thereby removing all incentives.

Great video, I never knew anything about state mandates and what it cost the people in terms of health care. Although I would love for more people to buy their own health care if the cost was slashed, I suspect there is a large group of people who rather not pay for health care but rather other people pay for it for them.

we need more women like this, and less obsessed with celebrity gossip and makeup tips

I love you darling but this perspective is faulty. For example, did you know women use medical facilities at a much, much greater than do men?

You should get a health-care program that caters to a better demographic.

BTW, I just noticed I’m paying for OB/GYN