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Obama Refuses to Rule Out Jail Time for People Who Don’t Buy Health Insurance.

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the health care system but stopped short of endorsing the threat of jail time for those who refuse to pay a fine for not having insurance. What I think is appropriate is that in the same way that everybody has to get auto insurance and if you don’t, you’re subject to some penalty, that in this situation, if you have the ability to buy insurance, it’s affordable and you choose not to do so, forcing you and me and everybody else to subsidize you, you know, there’s a thousand dollar hidden …

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January 16th, 2010 at 10:17 pm

The Baucus Bill’s Inevitable Consequences

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“The Finance Committee chairman’s bill is a tangled web of federally-dictated insurance regulations, which would control every aspect of health insurance from covered benefits to permissible premiums. The bill would centralize the power of medical decisions with politicians and bureaucrats, not patients and doctors. And it would result in higher health insurance premiums, less consumer choice, and, ultimately, the rationing of health care.” — US Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl speaking on …

Obama: “momentum” for health care reform

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The historic movement to bring real, meaningful health insurance reform to the American people gathered momentum this week as we approach the final days of this debate. Having worked on this issue for the better part of a year, the Senate Finance Committee is finishing deliberations on their version of a health insurance reform bill that will soon be merged with other reform bills produced by other Congressional committees. After evaluating the Finance Committees bill, the Congressional …

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November 2nd, 2009 at 5:30 pm


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