Re Pelosi and "job-locking":
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"We see it as an entrepreneurial bill, a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care."
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Update: As commenters note, Pelosi said almost exactly the same thing two months ago. However, she was not quite as blunt about it in March:
"So, you can‘t—everybody has so much to gain from this, small businesses, as I said, seniors, young people, women, our economy. Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk, but not job loss because of a child with asthma or someone in the family is bipolar—you name it, any condition—is job locking."
Or join the circus! If you want to know where it is, go to Washington DC and look for the big building across from the Washington Monument.
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1) Does Pelosi think the health care bill gives everyone in the country free health coverage? I know that's what liberals wanted .... maybe they're going to pretend that's what we have now.
She did say they needed to pass the bill to find out what's in it. Maybe she still hasn't found out!
Doesn't the health care bill REQUIRE everyone to purchase health care insurance or pay a penalty tax? How is that not "job-locking"?
2) And how about all the other things that are "job-locking" like rent, mortgage payments, power bills, food, clothing ...... ? Maybe that's all gonna be taken care of in another future bill .... or at least they'll fantasize that it will.
3) And as far as freeing people from being "job-locked", does she know there are a vast number of people whose highest dream and aspiration is to sit on their ass and watch tv all day? Okay, some of them want to sit in a bass boat or lie in a hammock on the beach but whatever, if you free people from the necessities of life, the result isn't going to be a burst of creativity and productivity and invention.
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