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When someone gets government help for food, we don't expect them to be able to just buy steak and lobster (insert government cheese joke here).

When someone gets government assistance in getting housing, we don't expect them to live in a mansion, we just hope it's not a slum.

When someone uses public transportation, they take a bus or the subway, we don't buy  them a Ferrari or a Porsche.

But for some reason, when we talk about health care, everyone should get the best care possible, regardless of cost.  What makes people think that a plan like this is realistic, much less economically feasable?

Endeavor, it it the courts far left extremist judges that are the problem.   How can they rule that Congress has the right to compel you yo buy something under the guise of "regulating interstate commerce", when healthcare insurance cannot even be sold across state lines?

If the government can compel you to buy something from a PRIVATE party against your will, then you have zero economic freedom remaining. 

The court is supposed to INTERPET the exisiting constitution, not make up "rights" not mentioned in the document.

It is the far left judges that make things up that fit their socialist agenda. 

@Stuck in Kansas

So, you make very negative assumptions about someone you don't like, and then ask to be proved wrong?  So "Are you now or have you ever been a Communist?  Prove me wrong!" is a good question too, by your standards.  Nice to hear a liberal defending McCarthyism!

I know so much about health care and insurance because I've been providing it to my employees for 30 years now, and have been intimately involved with it.

I follow the politics fairly closely because what the government does impacts not only my business, but my employees. 

Our problems with healthcare began with a very hot political potato Medicare and Medicaid, back in the 60's and the government felt they should pay doctors bases upon the 75th percentile.  This began an upward and uncontrolled spiral of escalating medical costs that continues to this day.

We've created a society that believes we can do or not do whatever we want, eat, drink whatever and as much as we want, and when we get sick, take a pill or get a shot and continue on with our lives, and there are deep insurance pockets to pay for it all.

Doctors are compensated for what they do and not the outcomes -so they do more.  Cut the doctors pay, and they simply treat more to offset the loss.  All this additional treatment comes with risk and cost, that is born by Medicare, Medicaid, and the Insurance Industry, which is passed on to employers.

Neither Romneycare nor ObamaCare addresses the glaring problems with our healthcare system that were created by our government.   The add more to it.  The solution is not more insurance, but less.  And there must be market reforms on the Health CARE industry.

Yes, some countries with single payer systems have lower costs and their population is healthier.  Why?  Quite simply, you'd better never get sick, because their health care systems sux.

I know so much about Massachusetts because I spend a considerable amount of time there.  My business often takes me there plus I have a summer home on Cape Cod.

ITS GREAT, ISNT IT? BEST STATE, FULL EMPLOYMENT, MUCH LUXURY, QUALITY OF LIFE - MAYBE TOO MUCH WINTER BUT ...

All paid for by other people's money.  Partner's Healthcare is the largest employer in the state.  20% of the state employed in the healthcare industry.   Plenty of defense work too -Raytheon doing quite well.  Teddy and Tip O'Neil laid the groundwork for many years to come.

Massachusetts has somewhat insulated itself from many of the woes of the rest of the country, all paid for with other people's money