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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (355806)	3/26/2010 6:11:28 PM
From: mph	12 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793801

Obamacare. Ridiculous. According to their own numbers, no more than 10 per cent of the population is without insurance. Of those, many are deliberately uninsured. They would rather spend their money on other things. There are people who claim that they cannot afford insurance, but they have cell phones, text messaging and broadband computers, drive newer cars, go out to movies, and otherwise decide to spend their money elsewhere. And I fully support their right to make those decisions--- just spare me the BS. Medicaid covers the people who are truly unable to care for themselves and I daresay the Medicaid recipients are not the same as the alleged 30 million uninsured. What Obama and the Dems don't appreciate, because they have really never been held accountable for anything, is that eventually you run out of Other People's Money [OPM]. We would be far better off encouraging people to earn and pay their own way and have some skin in the game rather than buying the votes of 50% of the population, telling them they can take but have no obligation to contribute. Heaven save us from phony do-gooders who simply want to retain their own power and don't give a damn about the people they claim to serve. All one needs know about these people is the fact that they exempted themselves from the health care bill they crammed down the throats of Americans. That says it all.