Michael Cannon discusses Health Care on FOX

8-18-09

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[MsZeitgeist85]

@ForTehNguyen Because if you did that it would mean that HMOs could rip off even more people because state laws are the only thing that keeps people from getting dropped.

HMOs should be prohibited by law.

[RoySC1]

Congress can take over healthcare by their authority to "promote the general welfare" as long as such a program is paid for by uniformly "laying and collecting taxes. But as this country is run by a bunch of oligarchs, you cannot trust Congress to run it honestly. Look at the Social Security Trust Fund - cooking the books, switching funds from one program to another, etc.

[esgatch]

The article I remember sending consisted of specific legal points in the bill. I have no interest in supporting lobbyists. I understand our Congress is already bought and paid for. They sold me out a long time ago.

[StevewithUnited]

Thanks for the article. You seem to have mistaken the facts. Approx $1.4 million a day was spent lobbying not in advertising. And they weren't lobbying against reform...

You may want to read "Groups Take Health-Reform Debate to Airwaves" by Brian Pershing in the Washington Post August 5, 2009.

PhRMA, the biggest pharma group is spending millions in PRO Reform ads. This bill is going to make drug companies A LOT of money. They wouldn't fight against it...

[esgatch]

The united states congress isn't legit. They're destroying the state of the union in general and the individual states respectively, Sir.

THAT'S the true 'state' that belongs to the people.

HR3200 is their socialist by-product.

Now, go get your own dictionary and look up LIFE, LIBERTY and PROPERTY.

[ChrisTheTruckDriver]

"anarchist congress"?

Not only do you not understand HR3200 whatsoever, you have no understanding of what anarchism is. Anarchists want to destroy the state. They are against the power structure of the government. Yet you call the congress anarchist?

Please get a dictionary.

[esgatch]

Their presumed 'requirements' are frivilous. Congressional double-speak in matters for which they can only presume authority. The more they get, the more they want!

They're spinning this issue into a storm. The people are rising up in paramount opposition to an anarchist Congress who both Bush and Obama have used to plunder the people.

Enough is enough with these bastard statesmen who call themslevs Congressmen.

You think they're legit. They're not...

Wake up, America!

[ChrisTheTruckDriver]

Seeing that the one example you listed is such a major part of the bill, and yet you are so demonstrably wrong on it, I didn't feel like going into any of the other issues. Read sections 116 and 201. Both of those sections require that competition exists in the market. If you can't even understand that basic information, I don't see why I should believe your claims in the other areas.

[esgatch]

I specifically name 13 examples, and you pick one to misrepresent and then spin it, just like Congress.

Then you suggest the same doubts, insults and accusations. Just like Congress.

You catch Congress in their words and they just change their terminology and keep telling the same lies.

My life, liberty and property belong to me, not the U.S. Congress.

Wake up, America!

[ChrisTheTruckDriver]

That list doesn't explain anything.

There are some false points such as eliminating the private insurance industry. There are actually sections of the legislation that specifically mention the need for competition. Thus if there is no competition, the legislation isn't being followed. You do not understand this bill. And I still doubt you have read it. You have yet to provide a rational explanation of any part of it.