ObamaCare at Supreme Court hearing

[jhale667]

Answer me this. These people who won't buy insurance get a penalty on their tax returns right? They're still not going to buy the insurance
and they ain't going to pay the penalty- they don't file tax returns. And they're still going to go to the emergency room for free treatment.
How the hell is that going to work?

Probably the same as if you don't pay taxes owed on a return...payroll garnishment. They'll get your money one way or the other.

[FORD]

Bullsh*t. "Downfall of this country"...geez, step away from the FAUX News talking points slowly, will ya?? Mittens would be far worse, and Frothy....holy crap.

And Ron Paul with a teabagger Congress might be worst of all, at least domestically.

[private parts]

Probably the same as if you don't pay taxes owed on a return...payroll garnishment. They'll get your money one way or the other.

And if you don't work....?

[Jagermeister]

And if you don't work....?

Obama will take care of you.

[private parts]

obama will take care of you.

bingo! Nanny state

[Etienne]

In Switzerland it's obligatory for every citizen to have a healthcare insurance, and we are doing well.

[private parts]

In Switzerland it's obligatory for every citizen to have a healthcare insurance, and we are doing well.

What happens if you don't get insurance?

[kwame k]

And if you don't work....?

Then you'd get an exemption.........

Not every single person in the US will have to get coverage.

If you're below a certain income level you're exempt and there's other hardship exemptions, too.

[kwame k]

What happens if you don't get insurance?

They send you to Austria

[kwame k]

In Switzerland it's obligatory for every citizen to have a healthcare insurance, and we are doing well.

The fact that almost all other industrial nations have some type of universal health care is lost on the majority of people who oppose it here

[FORD]

In Switzerland it's obligatory for every citizen to have a healthcare insurance, and we are doing well.

Could you give us a brief explanation of how the Switzerland system works?

It's my understanding that you have a private insurance system there, but also that insurance companies are tightly regulated, and are required to be not for profit corporations.

Is that correct?

[Etienne]

What happens if you don't get insurance?

In Switzerland the insurance companies have to gather you. No matter how old or sick. It's written law.

[Etienne]

Could you give us a brief explanation of how the Switzerland system works?

It's my understanding that you have a private insurance system there, but also that insurance companies are tightly regulated, and are required to be not for profit corporations.

Is that correct?

In Switzerland insurance companies are profit corporations.

Tightly regulated? Maybe more than a company of the other industry segments.

[kwame k]

How would you rate your health care system overall, Etienne?

[Nitro Express]

In Switzerland the insurance companies have to gather you. No matter how old or sick. It's written law.

Switzerrland has a mandated private insurance law. I read about it in Time magazine while I was having my car's oil changed. The thing is, it's the quality of government that manages the system. This is what nobody seems to get through their heads. Hell. Even communism can be a paradise if you have a benevolent being running the show and everyone likes what they get. Until we get some proper leadership in the government nothing is going to work because a system is only as good as who manages it.

Switzerland is a small rich country that doesn't have the immigration issues we do because you can only become a citizen of Switzerland if both your parents are citizens. That eliminates a ton of problems right there.