Posted on 07/01/2012 9:36:56 PM PDT by Olog-hai
In a 5 to 4 vote, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the controversial provision requiring Americans to purchase health insurance was not unconstitutional, as its opponents had hoped, but amounted to a levy which Congress can issue based on its constitutional right to collect taxes. In a surprise move, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, long seen as a staunch conservative, backed the ruling and delivered the verdict.
German healthcare experts have long had difficulty understanding the debate in the United States because mandatory healthcare insurance has been required for decades in Germany, just as it is in many other European countries. People living in Germany cannot be excluded from health insurance because of previous conditions and, for those who are covered under the public-private national healthcare scheme, their premiums are based on how much income they earn.
Opponents in the US argued that requiring Americans to buy insurance is an intolerable intrusion into an individual's right to purchase what he or she feels is necessary and amounts to a move to Socialism, which they reject.
Proponents argued that health insurance only works if everyonesick as well as healthy individualsare part of the system. Large health insurers backed this, fearing they would experience big financial losses if required coverage were removed but a mandate requiring them to insure people regardless of their pre-conditions was kept.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
On the bright side of things, the German Healthcare Officials will probably be jumping out of windows once the Euro collapses.
Of course germans do not understand. The health care system was imposed by a central government that has as much power as the autocratic regime of Otto von Bismarck. Despite the somewhat misleading language of its Basic Law, Germany has no real concept of limited government.
In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.
Sounding more like Barry Goldwater than the former head of the KGB, Putin said, Nor should we turn a blind eye to the fact that the spirit of free enterprise, including the principle of personal responsibility of businesspeople, investors, and shareholders for their decisions, is being eroded in the last few months.
There is no reason to believe that we can achieve better results by shifting responsibility onto the state. Vladimir Putin
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02/putin_warns_us_to_eschew_socia.html
February 18, 2009
Putin warns US to eschew socialism
As if becoming more European is a good thing? Why do they think everybody left their countries and came here? So losers could infiltrate and re-create Europe, Mexico, the Middle East, Africa, whatever they came from and remake it here?
They are right about one thing. Roberts, the supposed conservative, does not think he has the right to limit the authority of the Federal Government in any significant way.
Isn’t it ironic that we become ever more politically European while at the same time becoming ever more third world demographically?
I know there's a long German word for taking pleasure in the misery of others. Is there a similarly long German word for being ironically clueless?
Funny that Putin makes such statements on one hand while renationalizing his country’s oil and gas industries on the other.
Sounds like you’re thinking of the word “schadenfreude”. The closest I can come to for the second phrase would be “ironischeratlos” . . . although that might be grammatically incorrect.
The world is upside down!
The American President preaches communist clap-trap and the KGB Russian President preaches capitalism.
In those countries, it's called the jizyah.
Muslims don't pay the jizyah, only infidels.
In the USSA, Muslims are exempt from ObamaTAX on religious grounds. Infidels are not.
No, the COURT has become more EuroPEON
In short, we are dhimmis. Welcome to Dhimmitude.
That’s what many Californios and New Englanders do when they move away from their sh*tholes.
Indeed. They really are parasites, moving to the next host after killing their previous one.
Twenty years later (well maybe a few more than that) here we are.
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