Why should I have to pay for someone else? Health care is a privilege not a right. We should take all the weak non working losers who can’t pay for themselves out on an island somewhere and leave them there. Born blind? Too bad. Born to a crack addicted hooker? Too bad. Couldn’t afford an education? Too bad. Mentally disabled? Too bad. Life isn’t some joy ride where everything is peachy. It’s tough, and people need to either pull themselves up by the bootstraps or just lay down. Let those of us who have it good keep having it good in peace.
Good day.
I hope you caught the irony.

On a more serious note:
The tax system in our country is in shambles, and our priorities are backwards. Corporations run amok. One need only look at the systematic denial of insurance claims in the name of profits. How much is enough? What I don’t understand is how people, individuals, can sit back and justify it. Why doesn’t every individual see that corporations have too much power? I don’t know if you read the stories coming out of Florida about homeowners who bought houses built with toxic drywall from China being denied insurance claims and then dropped after making them, but it’s disgusting. Why should the homeowner be punished for a technicality in the contract? In a rational America, the Insurance company would be obligated to repair the damage (the point of having insurance) and then the appropriate person would be billed afterward.
It is no strange thing that the insurance companies are fighting this legislation, they don’t want to be in a spot where they have to cut profits, even if its the right thing to do. Let’s hope that the right thing is finally done and corporations are put in their place.

Got me. I cannot get life or health insurance from a private insurer because of epilepsy. At any cost. Doesn’t matter that epilepsy has no bearing on life expectancy or health costs. They simply don’t do it, because the law allows it.

On the other hand, as a disabled veteran for epilepsy, like all federal workers, I already have a public option insurance plan (for health anyway) that the taxpayers already pay, so my family and I are covered.

If the teabaggers want to go out to protest the right of Congressmen and military and civil service workers to receive free insurance while they reserve the right to pay ever-expensive premiums, that is their right. (Silly, but their right.)

Believe me, if teabaggers want to do the work of insurance lobbyists for them for free, the insurance industry will let them and laugh while they take the public’s health insurance premiums all the way to the boardrooms for executive bonus payouts (oops, I meant paying the medical bills of their policyholders, except insurance companies don’t do that, they practice medicine without a license and like my wife before we were married, tell her they won’t pay for her emergency burst gallbladder surgery because it is cosmetic . . .)

Or like AIG, loan the bailout money they were given to CitiCorp . . . .

The money I save on health insurance more than covers by socking away what would be a premium into an account which will act as a self-financed life insurance policy. I have the taxpayers to thank for that too.

Beause this someone originally pushed their “constitutional rights” to choose NOT to have insurance, then fell on their sacred bone and broke it and NOW they want insurance??
Yes it is a moral obligation to take care of our own so, do… as I do and she does and they do and go get your insurance BEFORE you fall on your butt (there’s banana skins all over the place you know).

EDIT: this “The Patriot” guy proves that the USA DOES have some people with brains. (but wait, he waves an English flag??)

EDIT2 respect and hats off to Eel

I happen to agree with you. I guess everyone is entitled to an affordable health care.