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To: combjelly who wrote (613899)	5/31/2011 2:00:24 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1587770

>> Don't those on the dole as you call it, use services and goods from private industry? Of course they do, and they were going to whether or not the federal government paid for it. Obamacare just institutionalized the federal government picking up the tab. >> Oh, right. Requiring that businesses do things to avoid fraud is a horrendous burden. This is dumb. Businesses don't NEED government to tell them to avoid fraud. Insurance companies have a fraction of the fraud problem Medicare/Medicaid do, and that is at least one reason you don't want the government in the health care business. They're unable to manage it effectively. Hell, Medicare even TODAY, after all this talk, has not implemented electronic anti-fraud measures that the private insurance companies have had excellent results with. They're grossly incompetent, and the estimates by GAO are probably 20 or 25% of what the true fraud losses are. Private enterprise is accountable. Government is not. Only if you get all of your info from BP. There are vast areas on the bottom of the Gulf that are anaerobic due to the spill. There is none of the animal life that was there before. And that has an impact on the whole ecosystem. So your term "no lasting impact" is so erroneous as to be laughable. If it wasn't so sad and ill-informed... You know more about this subject than I do, admittedly. But your ideological bias offsets your knowledge. The fact of the matter is there is no significant lasting damage, just as was the case with Ixtoc-1. In the long-term, it just DOES NOT MATTER. It was nasty, too bad, wish it hadn't happened, but in the long haul it just doesn't matter. Other than the mess Obama made after the fact.