http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=7-9v_3Flhos
Gingrich: "I am for people, individuals -- exactly like automobile insurance -- individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance. And I am prepared to vote for a voucher system which will give individuals, on a sliding scale, a government subsidy so we insure that everyone as individuals have health insurance."
Romney: “right now in this country, people that don’t have health insurance go to the hospital if they get a serious illness, and they get treated for free by government. My plan says no, they can’t do that. No more free riders. People have to take personal responsibility. I consider it a conservative plan.”
DeMint on Romneycare: "Well, that's something that I think we should do for the whole country. And the governor just looked at the numbers like a good businessman and realized that we could give people private insurance policies cheaper than we could provide free health care. And what that does is spread out the risk; it gets the government out of the health care business and actually makes the health care system work a lot better."
Grassley (longer so putting it in a quote box):
Stop fucking pretending this wasn't your idea all along, Republicans. You only hate it now because you are the party of no. You only hate individual mandates now because it was part of Obama's plan. Maybe Obama should come out and say that he loves living in America and never plans to leave the country--maybe then some of you would get the fuck out and stop standing in the way of progress.
And they have the nerve to call others hypocrites...that's some fucking chutzpah right there.
Gingrich: "I am for people, individuals -- exactly like automobile insurance -- individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance. And I am prepared to vote for a voucher system which will give individuals, on a sliding scale, a government subsidy so we insure that everyone as individuals have health insurance."
Romney: “right now in this country, people that don’t have health insurance go to the hospital if they get a serious illness, and they get treated for free by government. My plan says no, they can’t do that. No more free riders. People have to take personal responsibility. I consider it a conservative plan.”
DeMint on Romneycare: "Well, that's something that I think we should do for the whole country. And the governor just looked at the numbers like a good businessman and realized that we could give people private insurance policies cheaper than we could provide free health care. And what that does is spread out the risk; it gets the government out of the health care business and actually makes the health care system work a lot better."
Grassley (longer so putting it in a quote box):
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And you're probably picking up 1,000 — some estimates — $1,800 on your premiums for people that don't have health insurance because of the expensive use of emergency rooms, as an example.
There isn't anything wrong with it, except some people look at it as an infringement upon individual freedom. But when it comes to states requiring it for automobile insurance, the principle then ought to lie the same way for health insurance, because everybody has some health insurance costs, and if you aren't insured, there's no free lunch. Somebody else is paying for it.
So I think individual mandates are more apt to be accepted by a vast majority of people in Congress than an employer mandate would be, as an example.
And with that goes the portability of the insurance from one employer to another so you don't — you don't have to be tied to your job.
But there is a very important issue here, and that is that we consider that there are some people who can afford their own health insurance but decide not to buy it because they want to pay it out of pocket. Should you require those people to do it?
I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates."
There isn't anything wrong with it, except some people look at it as an infringement upon individual freedom. But when it comes to states requiring it for automobile insurance, the principle then ought to lie the same way for health insurance, because everybody has some health insurance costs, and if you aren't insured, there's no free lunch. Somebody else is paying for it.
So I think individual mandates are more apt to be accepted by a vast majority of people in Congress than an employer mandate would be, as an example.
And with that goes the portability of the insurance from one employer to another so you don't — you don't have to be tied to your job.
But there is a very important issue here, and that is that we consider that there are some people who can afford their own health insurance but decide not to buy it because they want to pay it out of pocket. Should you require those people to do it?
I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates."
Stop fucking pretending this wasn't your idea all along, Republicans. You only hate it now because you are the party of no. You only hate individual mandates now because it was part of Obama's plan. Maybe Obama should come out and say that he loves living in America and never plans to leave the country--maybe then some of you would get the fuck out and stop standing in the way of progress.
And they have the nerve to call others hypocrites...that's some fucking chutzpah right there.
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
-Sagan
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
-Sagan
