Ask Chuck: Health Care Bill, Keeping American Jobs

why dont you give us the pro insurance propoganda. Please enlighten us about the public good the health insurance companies does for us.

please tell me anything positive the insurance companies brings to the table.

by the way the lobbyist for the health industry has paid 238 billion dollars to buy lawmakers like grassley and baucus.

is this a good use of our money. i get to vote and insurance gets to purchase the grassleys of the world

Actually, Dickens got it right. It was incumbent upon Scrooge, as the story implies, to pay a living wage to his employee - or as near to that as possible had Scrooge been a less successful businessman. For the laborer is worth his hire; it is wrong to keep his wages from him.

Flip side is, the laborer has a right to work for low wages if he chooses to do so. Sometimes, forcing a less thriving business to pay higher wages causes that position to go unfilled.

Choose? Low pay? Or no job?

there is no moral or rational justification for our system, we are the only country with for profit and our results are by far the worst and you can deny the independant third party studies all you want but

Dickens was right but schrooge was not

our country is acting like scrooge especially republicans

The federal govt would be overstepping; the state govt may depending upon the state constitution, as may local govt, or community members. It is my contention that it is govt that has forced costs of insurance beyond what this woman could afford. It is also govt that, by taxing us and changing rules at whim, removes our incentive to save and invest our own money to enable us to care for ourselves. Perhaps you are too young to recall when savings wasn't taxed.