Michael211_2000: For those that think that goverment shouldn't be controlling your health care... do consider:
1) The proposed legislation reforms how health care is managed in this country, it does not put the goverment in any more or less control of YOUR individual health care!
2) Do you also complain about the government being in control of your daily commute? How about the food you eat? Or the air you breath, or the water you drink... the federal government regulates all that stuff and more too, you know this right?
It's not like the federal government suddenly got bored with controlling nothing BUT the common defense and decided it should go take control of the health care industry and make decisions for YOU on what doctor you go to when you're sick or what kind of medications that doctor can prescribe for you... hello!
Actually, if you have health insurance then the insurance company probably already limits which doctors you can see and what kinds of medications and procedures those doctors can prescribe or administer and for how long even... and you think you're in control of your own health care right now? LMAO! ROF!
Look around you, the government regulates all sorts of things you commonly use or ingest or otherwise come into contact with in your daily life... this is not a new thing. If you want to live in a country with no centralized government regulating anything, move to Somalia. That's what a country becomes when it has no functioning government to speak of. High-seas piracy... there's your true "free enterprise" system at work! Who knew?
I forget now, was it the red pill or the blue pill that was offered to Neo in "The Matrix" to show him what the Matrix really was? I think it was the red pill actually.
- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")
Social Security was sold to the American people as "insurance." I'll bet that you can opt out of Obamacare just like you can opt out of Social Security.
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