i dont get how you can place the well being of a few pharmaceutical companies over the well being of uninsured americans

Yeah, how dare anyone give a damn about private sector jobs, private sector shareholders, or the private sector in general.

Let's make everything government controlled.

Oh.......wait.........that's communism.

wow thrax, that was classic.
parochial generalization followed by summoning the threat of communism.

States and people are going crazy. I don't understand why.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100322/ap_on_re_us/us_health_care_last_stand

This was in that article:

""Just by virtue of being a resident of the United States, never before in history have we been required to purchase something," said Brian Gottstein, a spokesman for Republican Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli II."

Never before in history have we been required to purchase something? What are taxes then?

thrax might have a different opinion on this, but as a virginia resident, i think our AG loves the spotlight.

Well 2 states have already enacted legislation that says that the feds can't do shit to their state with this bill. More will follow and the process will get held up in the court system till after Obama is kicked out of office. Then, hopefully, we can repeal this thing without too much harm. :)

Yeah, Cucci man is definitely an attention whore monte.

Alex:

This isn't a matter of taxation. It's a matter of someone choosing to not purchase health care (for whatever reason) and the government making them pay a percentage of their income as a penalty. The penalty will go as high as 2-1/2% of a person's income.

In other words, say I make a decent living and am pretty healthy and I don't feel the need to buy health insurance. I only go to the doctor 2 or 3 times a year and don't have any regular prescriptions. Each doctors visit will cost me about $75 (this varies) and then maybe 2 prescriptions for antibiotics (about $50.00 each), for a total expense to me of $325.00.

Since I make $75,000 a year I can afford these occasional expenses and choose to not give my money to an insurance company unnecessarily. Under Obamacare I will now be given a 2-1/2% fine for not buying insurance which amounts to $1,875.00.

This is the forced purchase that makes this bill borderline unconstitutional.

Ya, and then your kid gets sick and he needs a heart transplant and it costs $250,000 and since you don't have health insurance, or $250,000 ur kid is gonna die, and then the plot of John Q unravels. The $1,875 is John Q insurance for the government. It costs a lot of money to have all those cops stand outside of a hospital for an entire day.

SO QUIT BEING SO SELFISH THRAXLE