I was under the impression that a 60 vote majority was needed to repeal the health insurance tax imposed on Americans by the Obama administration, apparently, not. By the looks of it these bumbling fool Republicans can repeal the tax, but haven’t the balls to do so.
The allure of the insurance carve out is just too hard for them to get around. The prospect of all that loose insurance money available to line their pockets is just too tempting to resist. REPEAL THE STUPID TAX ALREADY. The government has no business being in the insurance business.
Bernie Sanders espouses that the government should put all Americans on Medicaid, he doesn’t give a crap what happens to this country; he’s eighty years old. He won’t live long enough to observe the consequences when the country plunges into civil war.
Instead of the government mandating that Americans have to buy insurance to subsidize the wealthy insurance companies, the government needs to mandate that the insurance companies insure all Americans, regardless of their health conditions or face penalties.
You can’t straddle working America with the burden of carrying non-working American’s laziness. Lazy America has to be forced to assimilate; there is no other answer to the problem. I say repeal now, and let the insurance companies eat their own policy pay out expenses. People that have pre-existing conditions should not and cannot be the responsibility of hard working Americans to carry, no less, be legally bound to do so or face criminal charges. Either the insurance companies are willing to evaluate pre-existing condition policy applicants, and write those policies to take care of them or they aren’t. What the hell, this isn’t Cuba or Venezuela. Last time I checked this is America, the government has no right to tax those who don’t need insurance to pay for those who claim that they do. It’s called Taxation without Representation!!! Same as the Boston Tea Tax imposed by Great Britain in 1773, where America was forced to not only purchase tea from only England, but taxed whether they purchased the tea or not. This is exactly the same scenario; Americans are being forced under penalty of law to pay for the insurance tax whether they need it or not to pay for those who claim that they need it.
What’s next, the government decides how much of any individual’s budget should be adequate to cover their insurance expenses based on what the individual claims is necessary? Who’s going to check for validity of the claim? The federal government already has proven it does a lousy job at verifying anything. All the entitlement programs are managed the same way, on “the honor system” with very little concern for waste, abuse, or corruption.