[Bratch]

This article was linked by Jake Tapper in one of his twitter posts.

[Ancesthntr]

I don’t give a damn how you label the 2.5% of income that you must pay if you aren’t in a “qualified” plan - it is a FINE. The government is telling you that you must buy a particular product, or you will pay.

Oh, and if you don’t pay the tax/fine/whatever the phuk they choose to call it, YOU GO TO PRISON.

Guess what: don’t go to prison (i.e. try to stay free and resist arrest), and they send a bunch of armor-clad JBTs and KILL YOU.

What’s next? Buy a Government Motors car every 3 years, or face a fine, err, excuse me, a “tax?” Get a mortgage every 7 years from Fannie or Freddie, or face a fine, err, excuse me, a “tax?” Where does it end? Can they f’ing government force you to spend every single penny of your after-tax money on “qualified” plans of one kind or another?

So much for the Constitution and our Republic. It is gone. They’ve been deathly ill for quite some time, and Obami & Pelosi just pulled the plug with extreme prejudice.

That hag says health insurance is a “right.” Horse$hit, a right is something that you have just because you are a human being, something that is independent of what others will give you. However, you have no right to a particular good or service that is paid for by others (especially on pain of fines or prison) - that is just another name for slavery. Good old Dems, still advocating for slavery in the 21st Century.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Sorry, but sprucing up the risk pool of private insurers so they can lose less money is NOT a constitutional role of the federal government, nor is it my responsibility! If I pay cash for my health care, I am not "burdening the system" in any way, and there is nothing in the Constitution that allows the government to force me to BUY insurance, as opposed to INSURING myself! I HAVE health insurance! It's called a SAVINGS ACCOUNT. I put into it every month the amount I am NOT paying to Blue Cross/Blue Shield. And guess what? I am WAY ahead, even after a couple of surgeries and ER vists.

I refuse to believe that this bill can make it against the law to insure yourself! What have we come to????