Ann Coulter on Geraldo discusses the removal of the "end of life counseling" aka death panel

[timpipe]

And another thing. Cash for clunkers was genius, idiots like Huckabee are ignorant or lying about the facts. I work for a car auction and moved some of these cars. I would be amazed if 10% of these "cars" were actually road worthy, and these were driven likely every day by their former drivers. It was probably closer to 1%. We were overjoyed that we had to move these cars less than a mile. Money went right back into the economy with payments, insurance, licensing, accessories etc.

[elsolyo12]

Hey "timpipe" I am a veteran currently serving and i am for torture, because if i get captured i will be tortured and decapitated. "Imagine this one"

[timpipe]

Coulter is a liar. Huckabee is a jackass. Fox news is propaganda. My insurance quadrupled in 5 years for NO REASON! There is no such thing as a free market.

[safewaysecurity]

Democrats and Republicans are liars. JESSE VENTURA 2012!!!!!!!!!!

[timpipe]

Jesse's pretty straight up, I loved the interviews with him discussing torture. A veteran against torture, imagine that!

[tryin2understand]

Jesse Ventura....the same guy that thinks 9/11 was an inside job. Yay!!!

[safewaysecurity]

@tryin2understand Well it depends what you mean by inside job... The President? or Janitor within the building? Also Jesse Ventura doesn't say he believes the government did this. He says he doesn't believe they investigated the attack enough.

[LordVigeous666999]

all depends on what state you live in I guess, laws that prevent insurance from crossing state lines reduces the competition, so you might be backed into a corner

The answer? Capitalism! You open up the borders, and remove the laws letting it cross state lines, you increase competition, and you should be able to jump to an insurance company that treats you right

[MeThinksThus]

YOU are a liar. YOU are a jackass. YOU spew propaganda. No insurance company has quadrupled rates in 5 years. The free market-if the government, and liberal rot like you would leave it alone-would keep costs down. Unfunded mandates by the idiots in government who "think" like you do are problems, NOT solutions. Go back to sleep.

[timpipe]

You want to see my insurance bills asshole? OK, maybe it was 6 years. My rate when I first obtained health insurance was $90/month; it was $360/month when I dropped it. The math is easy, 4 x 90 = 360. That is fact, not propaganda. In the ten years I have been providing my own insurance I went to the doctor once for a staph infection, and there is no way my premiums could have been affected by that. By the way, I have relatives in Britain who have not died yet due to socialized medicine.

[59penrod]

@timpipe Coulter is arguing exactly what you are saying: there is currently not a free market to purchase insurance because of restricting state and federal regulations.

[nmjonny12345678]

You're right, and I used to vote Democrat, too. What's surprising is the zeal and exuberance the U.S. public still has in large government, in pork spending, and astronomically out of control spending. Each wage earner in the U.S. owes around 400k with the existing government and non-funded debt. Have you looked around at the new generation slated to inherit this debt? It's criminal what Obama is doing to us.

[59penrod]

@nmjonny12345678 That "400k" per person debt you describe, is offset by many American debt holders -- those of us who own the bonds. It's not as bad as it sounds, although it needs to be dealt with immediately. Cut spending.

[TimeWarp66]

I mostly disagree with Ann on pretty much everything, but in this case she's completely right: "The free market IS the answer."