Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (81305)	3/22/2010 9:54:47 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224757

26 yr old children - a dream come true for parents. It'll be overturned in short order Ken. The American people are outraged the Democrats ignored their wishes.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (81305)	3/22/2010 9:56:53 AM
From: JakeStraw	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224757

Another example how the gov't wastes the taxapyer's money: They send a letter out to everyone telling them that they are sending out Census Forms...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (81305)	3/22/2010 10:11:45 AM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 224757

Wigger Please!!!! lol

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (81305)	3/22/2010 10:16:08 AM
From: JakeStraw	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224757

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (81305)	3/22/2010 10:29:29 AM
From: MJ	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224757

By the time I was 26 I was on my own Kenneth-----when you are 18 you are no longer a minor-----when you are 26 many Americans are married and starting families or single and already in careers. To keep a 26 year old on their parent's policy is discrimination against those young people who are making their own livings by age 26. Of course, the Obamanation idea is to keep them under the control of the education system as long as possible and obviously on their parents health insurance as long as possible.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (81305)	3/22/2010 10:59:05 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 224757

• "We have incorporated the best ideas from Democrats and from Republicans." Far from it. Some of the biggest omissions include tort reform, health savings accounts, portable insurance, expanding consumer access to plans across state lines and posting provider prices for services so patients can shop around. Republicans were almost completely shut out from the process and at the early stages last summer, were not even permitted to read the bill. In an atmosphere like this, it's little wonder the bill isn't drawing a single vote of support from Republicans of either house. It's fully a creature of the Democratic Party. • ("This is not a) government takeover of health care." How is it that government can dictate to private insurance companies what they can offer, to whom, under what circumstances and at what prices, and yet still not own it? Every basic business decision a private company can make has effectively been expropriated. Even as Obama denied his health care plan was a government takeover, his vice president, Joe Biden, laid out the real deal: "You know we're going to control the insurance companies." We'll take him at his word. • "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." That's if your doctor chooses to remain in the profession. Unfortunately, our own IBD/TIPP Poll found that up to 45% would consider quitting if they're going to be dictated to by unaccountable bureaucrats who couldn't get into medical school. Price controls will slash doctor salaries and raise workloads, mandating that doctors make up for losses with volume. Bureaucrats will crack the whip on costs by lowering payments and penalizing doctors who refer patients to specialists. All this, and zero tort reform relief, will drive many doctors out of the profession just as 32 million new patients enter the market. • "Our proposal is paid for ... our cost-cutting measures would reduce most people's premiums and bring down our deficit by more than $1 trillion over the next two decades." Government programs always cost more than projected. Medicare, which has $86 trillion in unfunded liabilities, was supposed to cost $10 billion within 25 years of its implementation. It actually cost $107 billion. investors.com