THE MANDATE IS CONSTITUTIONAL

[Captain Oates 911]

I have sweet memories of Ibiza...

The anti-health care people need to get on with their lives and find something newer and shinier over which to obsess... I wonder if and when anyone will put Romney's birth certificate to scrutiny. Until then he may have been born on Dune and be a child of the spice... Who knows!?

Health Care Reform is here to stay and the sooner people realize their free ride on their medical bills is over the better off we all are.

On a lighter note, one of our neighbors was contemplating moving to Canada following the SCOTUS' ruling. I have encouraged her to do so and run away from the communistic socialistic spectrum that hangs over America. I can't wait to hear from her once she has settled there.... if I were a Canadian I would be very upset at a section of this country right now. There seems to be a large population of Americano who think Canada is this vast wilderness, still living in frontier times, just sitting there waiting for the disgruntled or ignorant American to take hold temporarily, until the 'next administration' is voted in. Hmm.. We should pair Reps and Dems and offer them time-share properties in Canada. Each could inhabit the property during the undesired administration. There is money to be made in partisanship outside DC!

Thatcher was very smart. No PM in his/her own mind would touch NHS. It is not my favorite as systems go and I had my disagreements with it, but for many Americans, it is far better than they have ever had. I think America can do better than the NHS and certainly better than what we have now.

I used the NHS for decades and they were superb (mostly). The care they gave my mother right up to her 95th year (her death) was more than excellent year after year. A doctor from a private hospital botched my dad's varicose vein operation (leg) and killed him

There is no way that any American will ever be able to accept that, because they have no first hand knowledge and their sources of info are equally ignorant or biased or both

Even MSNBC has no idea of how it really is on the ground and seem reticent to endorse foreign healthcare systems. Its not acceptable to do that in the US, so recommending their own system is as far as they dare go

They should send journalistic teams to report back

Michael Moore's sicko was as close as the US ever got to learning the facts

I have spoken to many Canadians about health care and they seem very happy with their system which sounds even better than the UK

[SMOKE 1,426]

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer

they're closer than you think.

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they're closer than you think.

[Captain Oates 911]

they're closer than you think.

nah - they are in their bunkers checking their water purification equipment and folding their camo pants and thumbing through their NASCAR and "Hunting Knives" magazines

Nobody wants to be associated with that sub-culture and they are doomed to obscurity as they watch the ascent of man from their truculent and resentful man caves

It is no accident that cave-men died out and the like of Baraako became ascendant

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Why do you keep calling him Baraako?

[Captain Oates 911]

Why do you keep calling him Baraako?

Because it sounds nice and it's quicker...

[SMOKE 1,426]

nah - they are in their bunkers checking their water purification equipment and folding their camo pants and thumbing through their NASCAR and "Hunting Knives" magazines

Nobody wants to be associated with that sub-culture and they are doomed to obscurity as they watch the ascent of man from their truculent and resentful man caves

It is no accident that cave-men died out and the like of Baraako became ascendant

be careful on your next hiking trip.

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be careful on your next hiking trip.

that + bathsalts... oy!

[Captain Oates 911]

be careful on your next hiking trip.

RWNY fantasy video. They always go to the violent side because they are not believers in democracy or Congress or the Supreme Court

They weep with pride at the thought of the divinely inspired Constitution, and then spend their lives fantasizing about acting in contravention of it

The RWNJ's should be careful or the FED will crush them like LBJ used force to crush the racists in the South

Edited July 3, 2012 by Ashud Cocoa

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I used the NHS for decades and they were superb (mostly). The care they gave my mother right up to her 95th year (her death) was more than excellent year after year. A doctor from a private hospital botched my dad's varicose vein operation (leg) and killed him

There is no way that any American will ever be able to accept that, because they have no first hand knowledge and their sources of info are equally ignorant or biased or both

Even MSNBC has no idea of how it really is on the ground and seem reticent to endorse foreign healthcare systems. Its not acceptable to do that in the US, so recommending their own system is as far as they dare go

They should send journalistic teams to report back

Michael Moore's sicko was as close as the US ever got to learning the facts

I have spoken to many Canadians about health care and they seem very happy with their system which sounds even better than the UK

Co-worker of mine from Canada has the exact opposite view of NHS there. Her mom had busted her toe and it was practically impossible to get the appointment and they were not treating her at all.

In end it was almost to point where they would have to remove the digit and after all that frustration she flew her mom to US, paid out of her pocket and got the right medical attention so her mom’s toe could be saved.

I was registered in NHS when I lived in UK, fortunately I did not had to use it but it seemed ok.

Not against NHS, but against the way the Obama care is designed, if the administration wants to create a separate service like NHS from the tax I am already paying I m ok.

The new mandatory option is where I have to purchase the insurance or I will be penalized and I have to pay for the ppl who will not purchase this mandatory insurance is a far fetched idea.

This is nothing but killing the middle class…. Its not helping middle class nor creating middle class… this is just going to burden the middle class families and bring them into poverty.

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Not against NHS, but against the way the Obama care is designed, if the administration wants to create a separate service like NHS from the tax I am already paying I m ok.

It's simple, we just take the money from the military budget to pay for it.

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It's simple, we just take the money from the military budget to pay for it.

You can't really be serious?

Why would we allocate money for the health care of our people, when we could put it to better use, such as blowing up stuff and killing people?!?!?!

Seriously!?

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Madness.

[rocks 494]

You can't really be serious?

Why would we allocate money for the health care of our people, when we could put it to better use, such as blowing up stuff and killing people?!?!?!

Seriously!?

I was having a blonde moment, sorry. Please forgive me.

[JohnR! 5,495]

The new mandatory option is where I have to purchase the insurance or I will be penalized and I have to pay for the ppl who will not purchase this mandatory insurance is a far fetched idea.

You already pay for the uninsured today and have been paying for years. Your insurance premium already cover the expenses of all those who can't pay for their treatment because they either can't afford it or because they just could not be bothered to buy health insurance.