RNs and Obama Say NO to Forced Health INSURANCE!

"Some folks who said that it's not possible to provide universal health care coverage unless there's a mandate._ Their essential argument is the only way to get everybody covered is if the government forces you to buy health insurance. If you don't buy it, then you'll be penalized in some way....The reason people don't have health insurance is because they can't afford it."

In the Feb. 21, 2008, debate with Hillary Clinton, then-Sen. Obama stated plainly,- " Massachusetts has a mandate right now. They have exempted 20 percent of the uninsured because they have concluded that that 20 percent can't afford it. In some cases, there are people who are paying fines and still can't afford it, so now they're worse off than they were. They don't have health insurance and they're paying a fine."

President Obama should heed his own words and block an individual mandate from being part of any health care reform. Otherwise, in his words, the people he is claiming to help will end up worse off than they were.

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Significantly, in Massachusetts, where an individual-mandate health reform law, much like what President Obama is proposing on a national scale, was passed in 2006, at least 352,000 people, or 5.5 percent of the population, remained uninsured in 2008. That number was actually (but non-significantly) higher than the number of uninsured in 2007, before strict enforcement of the individual and employer mandates went into effect.

The legislation championed by the president and the congressional leadership is a virtual clone of the Massachusetts plan, said Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP). Todays numbers show that plans that require people to buy private insurance dont work. Obamas plan to replicate Massachusetts reform nationally risks failure on a massive scale.

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[cod26]

@varmfarm shut the fuck up

[varmfarm]

pack up commies - we're dispatching your asses

[nirbmtrREEEPR]

I am disabled. I paid SS money (i mean it was taken) over half my life, just to be told i am 2 years shy of qualifying? WTF i wan't that money back please. So no income, no insurance = fines? It's illegal to be poor? I can only hold my composure for so long. I guess i must just be racist like the news says. Fuck you Barry Sortero/Barack Obama.

[lollipopfop]

I won't be able to buy healthcare. I make about 24000 a year, and thats enough as far as he is concerned. Right now I use a subsidized Minneasota Healthcare plan, but that will be removed with this bill. I sure can't afford to pay a thousand dollar fine. Why should a poor healthy person like me subsadize wealthy people who are unhealthy? So I will pay the same as a person who earns four times what i do and is a lot less healthy? How is that FAIR? Id rather go to jail.

[Hellpig]

ahhh say it isn't true the America hating,terrorist defending,dictator bowing Marxist is a liar...

[Julzug]

CNA was SO used.

[tonycat99]

How freakin ironic that Yet AGAIN - Obama lied or flip-flopped on something! Cause in case you haven't heard HR3590 that just passed, forces Every American to buy insurance!

He also lied about keeping your doctor and plan. You can search for the video of him admitting it on here.

[somedude73]

Wow - sounds a lot like the current circa 12/19/2009 health bill, that Obama is championing today - and that 'traitor' Howard Dean dares to question.Wow. How quickly people forget.

[bigtex501]

ALL AMERICANS GET 10 YEARS OF FREE HEALTH CARE COVERAGE! Well, almost... . obamer chooses to spend $1.4 TRILLION on HIMSELF instead! Obamers annual Federal budget was an INCREASED $1.4 TRILLION over the last years budget! But what would have happened if obamer spent it on the PEOPLE instead? . $1.4 TRILLION divided by 330 Million people in America would be.. . TAX REBATE CHECK OF $42,424.00 for EVERY AMERICAN? 10 YEARS of Ins. at $4,242.00 a year.. well, almost!