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Cato Experts Dissect Obama's Health Care Town Hall Meeting

President Obama on Wednesday answered questions on rising costs, taxing benefits, and many other issues during an ABC News special on health care reform, "Questions for the President: Prescription ...  
 
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steve0281 (11 hours ago) Show Hide
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@Crixu3112 They haven't collapsed yet as they have essentially been piggy backing off the innovations of the US. They get around falling over by rationing. Care delayed is care denied. Also none of them have the growth in terms of percentage and are essentially stagnant economies. That is a fact.
jwill5587 (1 day ago) Show Hide
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Does anyone know the name of the theme used at the beginning?
hadenufnow (1 week ago) Show Hide
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KIll the HC 3000 pg Illegal Trojan Horse Mandate BIll devoid of any health care..
THE CBO Congressional Budget Office Repeatedly stated on every level of cost expenditures, absolute Monetary UNSUSTAINABILITY for this bill:::as an Irresponsible document where actual numbers are in stark contrast to hopeful predictions by factors of 25X or more..in many estimations especially in the uninsured demographic...
By their own Stats..!!
This is USA
Kill the bill.

Nobody wants it...
Crixu3112 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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as a European i have a hard time understanding parts of this debate.
That you discuss if this would limit your freedom is understandable, since many of you have never seen reform like this. But arguing if this would throw your country into even deeper recession.. that's ridiculous! I guess the arguments are feasible, but look at the facts! look at all the European countries with government health care.. NONE of their economys have collapsed because of government health care.. Now that's a FACT!
TrollBuster9090 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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"or that ABC is trying to spin the fact.."

1. If you think that you're watching a different debate than I am.

2. ABC didn't "spin" anything, the CATO Institute did.

ABC's coverage of this town hall meeting was balanced. The CATO Institute then took ABC's footage and deceptively spliced their own (biased AND inaccurate) commentary into it, hoping to convince a few rubes that they were actually included in ABC's presentation.

Apparently their deception worked.
TrollBuster9090 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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"The govt has been a barrier to competition"

As I told you before, there would be very little competition if the "evil government " hadn't brought in anti-trust and anti-monopoly laws around the turn of the century. Before that it wasn't uncommon for large monopolies to control the commerce of entire states at ridiculous prices.

The reason health insurance costs are so high is because those HMOs are EXEMPT from those anti-trust laws.
TrollBuster9090 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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"Why do we have a vaccine in record time...because of private sector companies like Novartis and Sanofi-Pasteur."

Yes, because of Novartis (of Switzerland) and Sanofi Pasteur (of France). Two of those thriving, innovative private sector companies which you were just claiming could never survive in a country with an evil socialized medical care system.

Come on, at least try to make your pathetic, sophomoric free enterprise rhetoric SOUND intellectually consistent.
case12hdsybncjkd (1 month ago) Show Hide
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You're quite right, I mistook being a QHBP and being in the Exchange as equivalent. And though they're not, the requirements to become a QBHP without entering the Exchange seems enough of a trivial difference that they might as well be. So to rescind my statement is in order, but it's still scary to think that as an individual you are required to enter an Exchange issued plan, even if your employer can go out of the Exchange..... to a plan that is almost the same by law as the Exchange plans
jnthnlck (1 month ago) Show Hide
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You think trivial, but a big deal for CBO's projected of 36 mil people who are not currently insured & could get insurance thru the exchange in HR3962. And again, the exchange only exists to establish a pool of uninsured thru which private companies & cover individuals at affordable rates as if they were insuring a mid-size employer or larger. And the exchange will include a competitive public option (not subsidized by taxes, paid for by its customers) to keep premiums in the exchange in check.
jnthnlck (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Also, there's no requirement for individuals to *necessarily* get coverage thru the exchange. In HR3962 individuals must be covered, period. If youre not covered and decide to get insurance on your own, fine (you'll probably pay ridiculously high premiums and co-pays because you're an individual and have no leverage on your own). However an exchange will be set so you can join a pool of customers who will have leverage to keep costs down. That's the purpose of the exchange, nothing more or less.

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