



I. President Obama Calls Out Businesses for Poor Security



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Sources: WSJ, U.S. Senate

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RE: Oh, so he wants to nationalize everything now?
By Ringold on 7/21/2012 1:07:05 PM , Rating: 2
It basically means that all health insurance companies are required to include the basic coverage. Also every American citizen are required to get health insurance or else be penalized/taxed.

If that were all there was to it, the law would've been 5 pages long, max. Maybe 100 pages of related regulation.

Instead, it's so long and complex that people suspect more Chinese have read it then Americans (Chinese bureaucrats keep a very close eye on what we do). ObamaCare will probably top out at 30 to 50,000 pages of related regulation once all the various involved agencies are done with it.

RE: Oh, so he wants to nationalize everything now?
By Lerianis on 7/21/12, Rating: 0
By Reclaimer77 on 7/21/2012 2:38:17 PM , Rating: 2
Best thing we could have done was to go to a nationalized health care industry and moved on. Other countries have done that.... why shouldn't the United States?

And this puts your firmly in the "idiot" category.

By Ringold on 7/21/2012 4:06:15 PM , Rating: 2
stop lying. The truth is that most European nations have LESS of a waiting time for doctors and specialists than the United States.

You're the one that's either a liar or simply ignorant. Wikipedia's a fairly well-known slightly left-leaning institution, so allow me to use it as a source.

Using Canada as an example, an estimated 782,936 Canadians spent time on medical waiting lists in 2005, waiting an average of 9.4 weeks.[10] Canada has set waiting-time benchmarks, e. g. 26 weeks for a hip replacement and 16 weeks for cataract surgery, for non-urgent medical procedures.

Someone in actual need of a hip replacement that can barely walk wouldn't call it non-urgent, but hey, that's socialism. Meanwhile, I had work done on my knee within 24 hours of what Canada would call a non-urgent injury a couple years ago, and was offered knee replacement within the same time frame. My folks are older and both had cataracts removed, within a week.

It goes on to describe the hundreds of thousands in total that flee what are generally socialized medicine advanced economies, and it lists the popular destinations... None of which are in the EU, though a few EU states are thinking about trying to get in on the action.

So tell me, if you are correct, then why do so many Europeans and Canadians pay for something they already paid for through taxes if it's so good and quick?

Further, laws can be written broadly but clearly. Note the constitution. The Roman's, and I think ancient Greeks even, understood that short, simple laws provide the most transparency. Complexity is used to hide shenanigans from the ignorant masses. Most of our countries greatest legislation is no longer then a childs story book, it's only been since WW2 generally that length has exploded.

