When the guberment FORCES you to purchase something and threaten you with a HUGE tax if you don't buy it... there will be no stopping them from abusing that power. Freakin Romney did the SAME thing is Mass.

If it is such a great plan, then every person in the guberment should be on the same healthcare plan as every other American.

SO GET OFF MY BACK!!! [ram27bat]

OwedumbaCare gave anyone what they were looking for. Today its the world's largest tax, tomorrow it's that you have to eat broccoli...next week you have to wear your underware on the outside of your pants...given the sheer lunacy that America is under with is litigious and tax laden propensities they'll use it to ram down whatever they want...for the children.

Only the fools, idiots and beggars are rejoicing the Supreme Court's decision in this.

Not me!

**** 'em!

Despite the court ruling, there is still a chance that Republicans in Congress can repeal much of the law next year even if they don't have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Because Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that the mandate to purchase health insurance—one of the key provisions of the law—was a tax, Republicans can use a procedure called "budget reconciliation" to pass a repeal bill that requires only a simple majority to pass. But this scenario relies on the Republicans' ability to win the White House, keep the majority in the House and gain enough seats in the Senate.

for better or worse, this bill is here to stay. Despite the republican/tea party banter, repeal will not happen. Starting next year, there will be a never-ending stream of modifications to the law --- modify, remove and add to. There is not enough political will to repeal and take away the aspects of the law that the majority of people like (even if it does not affect them):

-- no pre-existing condition exclusions

-- stay on parents policy until age 26

-- no lifetime max payout

Unfortunately, these benefits have and will continue to drive up the cost of insurance, particularly for those who are on individual/family policies rather than group policies.

You just wait a gosh-darned minute......you mean those things aren't free????

I want my ****ing unicorn ride!!!!!🐴

Making costs rise IS THE POINT.

this is how they get to single payer. No private insurance = no choice in outcome.

"It will take about 10 years, but we'll get there (single payer)"

~Barry Soetoro

LOL

My wife posted something about this bill causing insurance premiums to go up on her facebook page. A couple of the responses just made me laugh (except that they were serious). "your insurance premium increases have nothing to do with this act." 😣 😣 😣 😣 😣 😣 😣 😣 😣 😣 😣 😣

Single payer will be the end result, but that's not the horror you are envisioning.

YO YO

The minimum penalty per person will start at $95 in 2014, the first year that the law will require

individuals to obtain coverage. And it will rise to $325 the following year.

AS AN EMPLOYEE I ASSUME YOU HAVE INSURANCE3, SO THE PENALTY/TAX IS

IRELLEVANT TO YOU.

"I am not FORCED to buy gas" JOG OR BICYCLE TO WORK..

NO MCDONALDS WITHIN 100 MILES? I LIVE IN A SMALL TOWN WHITTIER CA, AND I

HAVE TWO OR THREE WITHIN 7 MILES OF ME. WHERE CAN YOU LIVE WHERE

FRANCHISE FOOD HASN'T FOUND YOU, ON GUAM OR IWO JIMA.

DOESN'T MATTER TO ME I ATE THEIR TWICE.

FAST FOOD IN N OUT, TACO BELL. A LITTLE SLOWER THE RED LOBSTER. THE

SLOWEST ME AND MY FOREMAN GRILL AMD TWO FILET'S

I ONLY WATCH RACHEL AND LAWRENCE, THE YOUNG TURKS AND A FEW MORE4 MIDDLE

OF THE ROAD PUNDITS.

I ONLY WATCH HANNITY AND REILLY ON UTUBE WHEN IT SAYS JESSE VENTURA OR

ANYBODY OWENS THEM AND ONLY SEE CLIPS OF DRUG ADDICTED SERIAL MARRIER,

AND GENERALLY NASTY SOB RUSH. I WONDER IF HIS BRIDE'S SIGN A PRE-NUP. IF

NOT THEY ARE DUMBER THEN DIRT..

INCIDENTLY I SPOKE TO YOU WITH COURTESY AND POLITELY BECAUSE I DID NOT

RECOGNIZE YOU AS ONE OF THE IGNORANT NO ACCOUNT DUMB ASSES THAT

ABOUND THIS BOARD. I THINK I WAS RIGHT.

Part of Romney's statement:

"What are some of the things that we'll keep in place and must be in place in a reform, a real reform of our health care system? One, we have to make sure that people who want to keep their current insurance will be able to do so. Having 20 million people --

up to that number of people lose the insurance they want is simply unacceptable.

No. 2, got to make sure that those people who have preexisting conditions know that they will be able to be insured and they will not lose their insurance.

We also have to assure that we do our very best to help each state in their effort to assure that every American has access to

affordable health care."

How are we going to do all that and cut taxes?

Some politicians are trying to get votes you ignorant slut.

So, it's a lie then? That's better! I was worried they wanted to spend money they didn't have again like under the last administration. You remember that one right? The one that put us in the economic mess we're in now?

actually, the administration had very little to do with the current economic mess we are in. more to do with Americans as a whole spending more than they make for 20+ years, savings rates at very low and sometimes neg. rates, buying things simply because a bank said they could, walking away from promises to pay when things did not turn out as planned, .....

Government policies play a roll, but we the people are responsible for the economic choices we make.

Rep/dem/left/right/tea/lib, power corrupts .......

Me buying stuff makes the national debt rise......... it's kinda like bread. In fact the federal government has a yeast infection.

although I do not like the national debt, it is not the cause of our economic problems (yet)

heh, that certainly had something to do with it, but it wasn't the cause, that was a symptom of our policies. Our policies have everything to do with how the economy reacts and works, everything.

The problem is it is not a science and what should be a logical conversation and/or argument is wrapped up only in ideological bull$hit and fingerpointing, not what's best for the actual people, which would of course be some kind of mix of what just f*cking works. Instead we're fighting over no government/more government which keeps everyone from seeing we're being screwed.