In the section that details out the mandate and the tax penalty associated with it, it states that if you don’t have a plan that is deemed “qualified” under the section that lays out said qualifications, you pay the tax.

In a nutshell, my family is young, healthy, and we have been responsible with our health and our money so that we could purchase what only what we NEED in health coverage and pay for routine services out of pocket. But we will be taxed anyway under this mandate because our plan doesn’t meet the “qualifications”.

This is the point we have to really hammer home. Even if you have insurance, if the government decides your plan isn’t good enough, you are penalized.

As posted elsewhere, here is the reality:

-House Ways & Means – PASSED – “Strong” public option
-House Education & Labor – PASSED – Public option
-House Energy & Commerce – PASSED – Public option
-The reconciled final House “Tri-Committee” Bill passed with a strong public option.

-Senate HELP Committee – PASSED – Public option
-Senate Finance Committee – Where all of the hoopla is…

So, the Public Option is dead? Not by a long shot.

Basically Obama just needs to get whatever is going on in the Finance Committee out and then work things back with conferences.

The straight up/down vote is the only thing left in the House.

a mandate would reduce insurance premiums by making the uninsured pay their fair share).

. . . and that gives the game away.

Why do I have to carry auto insurance? Because if I operate my automobile in a reckless and negligent manner, texting, talking on the cell phone, reading a book while driving, and cause a collusion with another vehicle, other people get hurt.

If I do not have health insurance and suffer some calamity and am unable to pay for health care, I am the party who suffers. Unless you want to attempt the argument that friends and family would suffer from my passing. (As if.)

Changing the argument to ‘paying your fair share’ by government fiat, the mandatory participation in health ‘insurance’ changes it from voluntary sharing of costs, into a government tax that punishes responsible behavior, and rewards undesired behavior.

It’s okay to be optimistic but not to be complacent.

Obama Flip-Flops

Obama Flip-Flops

RE (stabbing steak knife into table): “Any f—ing Senator who f—ing stands in our f—cking way? F—ing dead! Dead!!“

Insurance regulation, drug cost control, tort reform, putting more GP’s into the field. All needed, all ignored.