Cuyo
Training a Guineapig army
The government setting the minimum wage for any age is not right. The government setting the maximum compensation for any private sector job is not right. Congress giving its members a raise is not right. Many things that the government does are not right.
If Obamacare is good enough for the people, it should be good enough for Congress and the President's family.
There is no such thing as "Obamacare," if the bill passes it will create an elective public option to compete with private insurers. Everyone in the country would then choose their own provider. There would be no policy called "Obamacare," or anything else, that anyone will be forced into.
No, but people will be forced to get insurance even if they don't want to under threat of a $5,000 fine for the uninsured. Sounds like force to me.
Rick
That's very true, I have mixed emotions about that particular aspect of it. On one hand, it would certainly lower rates by spreading risk over a larger plane, much the way a group rate does (as well as keeping uninsured out of the E.R. for the rest of us to pay for). On the other, it's certainly an infringement on an individual's choice.
I believe there's a lower income limit, under which people would not be required to be insured. Does ne1 know what that limit is?