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Howard Dean: Employers Have No Right to Make Health Decisions, But Gov't Does
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| December 2, 2013
| Susan Jones
Posted on 12/02/2013 5:13:21 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, a liberal Democrat, says decisions about health care should rest with the federal government, not with individual employers who pay for their workers' health insurance."
No. Health care should be between doctor and patient.
Here is the long buried thing the might be raised: When FDR put caps on salaries, employers started putting perks outside of salaries to attract good employees--health insurance was one of them.
So, in sum, one Democrat limits the salaries of employees, and another picks up the mantle to take another perk away.
Chew on that, libs...
To: shankbear
I am more than ready. I really can’t stand living like this. I don’t think I’ll survive three more years.
To: shankbear
Ditto. And we get the Constitution. The Dems aren’t using it anyway.
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posted on
12/02/2013 5:48:22 PM PST
by
originalbuckeye
(The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.)
To: Dead Corpse
Cant we just euthanize him before he gets anyone else hurt? Well, yes!
We are one country after all, and if the majority speaks, he shouldn't have a problem with it.
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posted on
12/02/2013 5:54:50 PM PST
by
seowulf
(Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. Cogito.---Ambrose Bierce)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Dean, you have the right to f*** off.
That is all.
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posted on
12/02/2013 5:56:53 PM PST
by
chris37
(Heartless.)
To: shankbear
Amen.
I wish we’d just get it over with. You know as well as I do where these tyrannical usurpations will eventually lead us.
I say we just go ahead and divide up the nation as peacefully as possible now; because the alternative will be horrifically bloody.
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posted on
12/02/2013 5:56:59 PM PST
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
We'll see what the court does, but I don't think a particular employer has a right to decide what kind of health care their employees are going to get. Does this braying jackass really not understand that this is not about "what kind of health care" someone's employees are going to get, but what are the characteristics and dimensions of the insurance benefits to be provided to employees by an employer. Not the same thing. Not at all.
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posted on
12/02/2013 6:06:21 PM PST
by
John Valentine
(Deep in the Heart of Texas)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; All
Dr. Dean is partly right about "government" power to make health decisions for citizens. More specifically, the Founding States made the 10th Amendment to clarify that the Constitution's silence about things like public healthcare means that government power to make such decisions is automatically reserved uniquely to the states, not the federal government.
That being said, Dr. Dean, evidently a low-information voter, is unsurprisingly clueless to the reality that the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for public healthcare purposes. But if Mr. Dean wises up to the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, he will understand that he needs to do the following if he wants a constitutionally compliant national healthcare program.
He needs to work with his federal and state lawmakers to propose a healthcare amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. And if the states chose to ratify the amendment, then the USA would have a constitutionally compliant national healthcare program and Dr. Dean would be a hero.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
the preamble to employer provided healthcare getting dropped next year..knock employer provided healthcare from now until it gets dropped. All democrats will no doubt be singing the same tune on every freakin’ show they appear on.
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posted on
12/02/2013 6:13:43 PM PST
by
tina07
(In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
To: seowulf
Let’s take a poll... We’ll sample heavily from Districts that watch Duck Dynasty or have Ted Nugent “liked” on their Facebook accounts.
That’s at least as fair as them sampling downtown New Yorkers right?
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posted on
12/02/2013 6:14:00 PM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(I will not comply.)
To: ilovesarah2012
you and me both..be lucky to survive the next 3 months...
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posted on
12/02/2013 6:14:40 PM PST
by
tina07
(In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Hey Howie!
Health Insurance is a “benefit” employers CHOOSE to offer employees.
It is NOT a “Right”!
It is NOT a commodity the government has the CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY to DEMAND employers provide.
Neither are the details or the nature of the coverage, the purview of the government.
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posted on
12/02/2013 6:18:35 PM PST
by
G Larry
(Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Is he still rocking the grecian formula?
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
If an employee doesn’t like the healthcare offered by his/her employer they have two options, 1) Waive insurance coverage and get your own or 2) go to work at a place that offers a plan you like.
To: clee1
It’s either that...or Syrian Style.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
When Dean criticized the IPAB (and validated Governor Palin’s point about “Death Panels”), I was hoping he’d come around and maybe go after Obamacare from the left.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
How long before someone, anyone, on the right side (if there is one) calls these pimps COMMUNISTS? It is what they are. Why the silence?
Because there is only one party now.
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
12/02/2013 7:09:23 PM PST
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Tolerance Sucks Rocks.
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posted on
12/02/2013 8:37:56 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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