Posted on 09/20/2009 7:54:37 AM PDT by tobyhill
President Barack Obama says requiring people to get health insurance and fining them if they don't would not amount to a backhanded tax increase. "I absolutely reject that notion," the president said.
Blanketing most of the Sunday TV news shows, Obama defended his proposed health care overhaul, including a key point of the various health care bills on Capitol Hill: mandating that people get health insurance to share the cost burden fairly among all. Those who failed to get coverage would face financial penalties.
Obama said other elements of the plan would make insurance affordable for people, from a new comparison-shopping "exchange" to tax credits.
Telling people to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase, Obama told ABC's "This Week."
"What it's saying is, is that we're not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you anymore," said Obama. "Right now everybody in America, just about, has to get auto insurance. Nobody considers that a tax increase."
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We have done a 180 from G. Washington who could not tell a lie. To B. Obama who can not tell the truth.
How soon til we get ratings and new polls based on the Sunday Bambi-thon? Tomorrow? ‘Cause I predict this will be a bigger flop than the Leno show.
Okay, let’s just start calling OBama’s halfway-to-single-payer plan what it is: Fascistic Medicine.
read my lying lips, no new taxes.
He called your health insurance premium a tax too.
There is some truth to this, but its a state tax based on state mandates and he wants to make it an our-right direct federal tax but call it insurance
At the same time NO ONE is required to use the mails.
I strongly suspect no one in that faction have bothered thinking about it. Kind of like the punitive tax on diabetics ol'greaseball Baucus has in mind.
“Did any of the talking heads in the state-run media have the onions to “call him out”
Naw. They were all too busy reaching for a tissue to catch their slobbering drool.
Would someone please explain to me how this “plan” is any different from the failed one that Romney instituted in Mass.?
PBO says people are required to get auto insurance. So why is it recommended or even required to buy uninsured insurance for when you have an accident with someone who doesn’t have insurance.
It’s not and that’s why I would never vote for Romney.
They can’t fine us all - I will not sign up for any gov’t run healthcare plan. If I get fined and jailed, so be it.
Here’s the health care solution: pump oil on federal lands, sell the oil, use the money to provide health care for all U.S. citizens aged 0-18.
Stop asking logical questions. Obviously, you will NEVER be an MSM reporter! /sarc
I don’t care if obama wants to call it a bouquet of flowers. It’s an increase in the amount of our money that the liar in our White House takes from us against our will. That’s a tax by any name. Sorry, socialist, but: YOU LIE!
Sure sounds like a tax to me.
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