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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (24202)	7/16/2012 6:52:07 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

>> You think we won't have people working in restaurants? Sure you will have. But you will have fewer working in restaurants, and this legislation will prevent new restaurants from opening that otherwise would have. I think the CNN article from yesterday really nailed it. A small independent grocery store operates on a 1% margin. If they have more than one store, the profit margin is gone. I'm not sure it matters, because I think Obama hasn't a snowball's chance in hell of winning re-election, and the likelihood of repeal is growing daily.

To: Road Walker who wrote (24202)	7/16/2012 7:05:35 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

You use that argument again and again, and its just as weak this time as it was in the past. Government controls a lot, but there is a lot it doesn't control or have significant control over. And even if that wasn't the case, if it controlled 99% of 99% of things, that doesn't imply or suggest that keeping it from moving to 99.8% control over 99.8% of things would be a bad or useless idea. Taken as a whole Obamacare is a large expansion of government control over health care and a vast expansion of its control over health insurance, and a modest to moderate expansion of its total control. It is significant.