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Only businesses are off the hook for another year. Joe Average still has to purchase insurance by March 31, 2014 or pay the tax penalty.
So are Republicans now openly terrorists?
by Simon 369 Replies latest social current
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nonjwspouse
From my understanding the house wants to remove the taxes on medical devices such a pacemakers during this year to keep from pricing peole out of them when they need them. How can that be a bad thing? It passed with bi partisan approval.. But the Senate wasn't even there to read or vote on it.
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AuntConnie
ADCMS,
May I ask you, what does the Right have in common with Christianity? Christians of the Westboro Baptist mindset are backers of these trolls, I am curious why people have no altruism. When I hear Atheist and Agnostics preaching for healthcare for the poor and Far-Right Christians against health-care for the poor, I wonder if I died and went to Limbo. This world of Limbo is a place where you can pound the poor into the ground, pay them slave wages and get away with it. If a worker get's his arms cut off, you can pay them $15,000 (Texas) and walk away from any responsiblity. I had a dream where Atheist and Agnostics were preaching for healthcare parity,why are the believers so uncaring?
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AndDontCallMeShirley
AC: "why are the believers so uncaring?"
Religion has little to do with caring for people. The advantage an atheist has over a fundamantalist is the atheist doesn't need to wait for his leaders to tell him if it's morally acceptable to help a person in need before he does it.
He does it because it's the right thing to do. No deity is necessary.
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nonjwspouse
Westboro are extremists.
Why is it the American Churchs so do much for the poor in programs, food pantries, and so many other programs if they don't care?
Some churchs pay for health care needs. Have fundraisers to pay off bills for people.
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Marvin Shilmer
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“And you accuse me of being ignorant?”
Yes, Simon. I do. You hold a simpleton view and, worse, either ignore substance or fail to comprehend it.
“I mean really? you actually believe that people 'chose to earn less' so they don't have to pay tax? and that money is taken directly off one person and given directly to others to even things up like that?”
I know lots of people who choose to earn less. It doesn’t matter the reason. As a result of choosing to earn less… here it comes… among other things they can’t afford healthcare insurance. You want me to pay for their choice to earn less by paying for the consequence of their inability to afford healthcare insurance.
I don’t like leeches. I don’t care much for fools, either. But society has both. So there you have it.
Marvin Shilmer
PS: Thanks jgnat
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jgnat
Leaches aren't so bad.
Leeches, on the other hand,
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BizzyBee
>>>>>You want me to pay for their choice to earn less by paying for the consequent of their inability to afford healthcare insurance.
You've been paying for it, one way or the other, for quite some time.
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Marvin Shilmer
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“You've been paying for it, one way or the other, for quite some time.”
Yes. Mostly by higher hospitalization costs and higher healthcare insurance premiums.
I don’t expect hospital costs to go down. Do you?
I don’t expect my healthcare insurance premiums to go down, either. Do you?
Know what this means?
It means I’ve been put in line to pay more.
It’s not the paying more that bothers me so much as the paying more for those whose life choices have placed them in a circumstance where they are unable to afford what I can afford when we each had the same choices. I know several of these. They’re much excited that they will have opportunity for “affordable” healthcare insurance because some young person who does not yet want to pay for healthcare insurance will be made to, and people like me will be made to pay more, so they can gain from our additional pain.
Marvin Shilmer
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jgnat
Surely, Marvin, American hospital costs should come down to be comparable with other developed countries.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/06/business/la-fi-mo-u.s.-medical-prices-high-20120306
