If you want to regulate my money, should I be able to regulate your health?

Question

I can feel the liberals hands creeping towards my purse, trying to get ME to pay for THEIR health care. Since they can't seem to manage their own finances, and pay for it themselves, then they certainly cannot be left to manage their own health care either. I should be able to tell them what they can and can't do with the "investments" coming out of my paychecks and tax returns.

I think those paying the most for this system should have some say so in whether they can have elective surgery, if they can smoke, and if they can have alcohol or drugs - even prescriptions. If I'm to be investing in other people's bodies, I think they should have to follow strict regulations and stay healthy or get cut off this health care welfare.

Basically, pay for your OWN insurance or face REALLY BIG government.

Agree or disagree?

Answer 1

No, you are dead wrong. Hillary's health care plan is the best.

A vote for Hillary is a vote for hope and the future!

Hillary realizes that the modern American is simply to lazy and unconcerned with the basic realities of life, such as getting proper health care, and keeping ones skills current to mitigate a loss of employment. Therefore, she's just taking the natural solution to the problem: taking the decision making away from the average person.

You gotta admit the brilliance of it. The average American can't find Germany on a map, is a monolingual dolt, and would rather spend time shopping for pretty trinkets than spending an hour researching candidates. So, why even pretend anymore that we're part of an informed electorate.

The government should have the right to tell everyone what they can eat, drink, or otherwise ingest. However, if someone does not follow these guidelines, we should still pay for their abuses because it is the fair and compassionate thing to do. Some people just don't have self control, and we shouldn't punish them for their weaknesses.

You may think you own your body, but everything really belongs to the government. You keep the money we allow you to keep. We allow you or forbid you to injest things based on our magnanimous gestures of goodwill.

Bush is completely out of synch with the times. He wants extra healthcare spending directed only at the very poor, not for households earning up to $80,000. He wants America to be like Superman and defend the defenseless. That is so 1950s! It's corny. America should spend its dwindling capital reserves on all the out of wedlock babies the Liberals told us were no cause for shame.

A vote for Hillary is the only solution. Liberals have charted us a course for mediocrity, with Hillary at the helm of the H.M.S. Titanic (Hillary's Medical Socialism), we can go full speed ahead to the fabled "land of milk and honey"... well, maybe not real, genuine milk and honey, but at least soy milk and an imitation, non-sugar, no-fat, extruded honey-byproduct.

Vote For Hillary. Thinking is such a waste of effort.

Answer 2

He is not going to change his health care proposal unless someone forces him to. His plan is to remove the employer tax credit and have employees taxed on the income, in case employers actually do give that money to the employees as a raise. There is also a tax credit to individuals which can only be spent on the purchase of health insurance. The total is significantly less than the cost of buying an individual policy, notwithstanding the fact that individual policies pay lousy benefits. But he is convinced that by some miracle deregulated health insurance companies will start paying good benefits and charge next to nothing for premiums, even though this will significantly cut into their profits as monopolies. He lives in a dream world, financed by lobbyists of the health insurance industry.

Answer 3

You make the obvious point that nobody will contemplate. Good luck though. I argue this w/ friends @ work all of the time - usually I tangle them up with saying something like: I don't always want to wear a helmet, and it's none of your biz. They come back with: you're loading society. I say, I absolve all of you of any guilt you may feel over providing my health care.

Answer 4

Interesting position.

What do you say to the woman whose husband was killed by a drunk driver and whose child has such a severe illness that the mother needs to stay home to tend to the child.

Where is this woman to get insurance and how is she to pay for the medical care?

Answer 5

Okay. I should have a say about my taxes funding a mideast quagmire as well, shouldn't I? After all, I AM an investor. Where's my oil profits?????

Answer 6

Good point, but havent you noticed, thats what their trying to do. they beat you to it.

Answer 7

Agree! End socialist VA heath care NOW!!!

Answer 8

I think I love you!!!!!!!