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A federal judge appointed by President George W. Bush struck down on Monday a key provision of President Barack Obama's health reforms, declaring unconstitutional the mandate that every American purchase insurance.
In a suit filed by Virginia's Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, US District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson agreed that under the commerce clause, the requirement for citizens to purchase a service did not pass muster of law. The state of Virginia recently passed a law which
Originally posted by airspoon
I agree that health care is too far out of reach for many Americans due to cost and that something should be done, especially when we pay far more for health care than every other developed country. However, when you force Americans to patronize the insurence industry, you are only benefitting that industry.
I believe the best solution would be to allow Americans to treat themselves. Right now, if you are sick or injured, you are basically forced to hire the services of people and entities (who are only approved by government by the way) that can and do take advantage of this fact by charging whatever they want. What we need is a whole radical shift in thinking, where we aren't forced to rely on government approved professionals for our health care.
Originally posted by airspoon
As it stands, in order to get an anti-biotic, we are forced to patronize a government approved doctor. If I want a medical treatment, say a small surgery or something, I can't have my wife/son/father/neighbor do it. Instead, I'm forced to patronize an industry that takes advantage of that force by charging ungodly amounts for their "service".
Yeah, I'm still not getting it, sorry.
What makes your neighbour qualified to do surgeries?
In the end...it will be what liberals wanted anyway...but we just have to do it the hard way because of the conservative base are a bunch of idiots.
Originally posted by adjensen
That's what a qualification is, and the more complicated something is, the greater the need for qualification, and the higher the standard of qualification need be.