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US House Democrats Unveil a Health Care Plan
gollum123 sends in this piece from a political blog in the NY Times. Here is the text of the bill in question (PDF). "House Democrats on Friday answered President Obama's call for a sweeping overhaul of the health care system by putting forward [an] 852-page draft bill that would require all Americans to obtain health insurance, force employers to provide benefits or help pay for them, and create a new public insurance program to compete with private insurers — a move that Republicans will bitterly oppose. ... But the chairmen said they still did not know how much the plan would cost, even as they pledged to pay for it by cutting Medicare spending and imposing new, unspecified taxes. The three chairmen described their bill as a starting point in a weeks-long legislative endeavor that they said would dominate Congress for the summer and ultimately involve the full panorama of stakeholders in the health care industry, which accounts for about one-sixth of the nation's economy. ... House Republicans, who have had no involvement in the development of the health legislation so far, quickly denounced the Democrats' proposal as a thinly disguised plan for an eventual government takeover of the health care system. ... The House Democrats' plan is one of three distinct efforts underway on Capitol Hill to draft the health overhaul legislation. In the Senate, both the Finance Committee and the health committee have separate bills in the works, and in recent days those efforts seem to have stumbled."
government should not be intervening in a woman's personal medical decision
How can you say that a medical decision is personal if she cannot pay for it? I would agree, that your body is inviolate so long as you pay for its upkeep, but once you start waving the cup around for someone else's dough to take care of you, the placer of the coin in the cup has more say than you.
I disagree with every single one of your posts but I'm not going to fight with you as its pointless and pointless arguing is not a good example for ourselves or for the readers of the board. Let us try a different tack.
Quite honestly, the thing that is causing abortions more than anything else is free trade and its attendant destruction of the middle class.
If we did not have disintegrating cities and skyrocketing unemployment and random destruction of industry, then we would have stronger families. We've almost reduced ourselves socially to hunter-gatherers, running from city to city in search of work, tossing aside 10,000 years of the evolution of our civilization in the name of a few trinkets shipped in from overseas.
I'd be willing to bet that if we cut off most imports, supported to some extent workers rights, we would have a manufacturing base again, marriages would go up, abortions would go down, and so on.
In the meantime, I would have no problem spending taxes for federal marriage counselling services and I would have no problem allowing gay unions and gay adoption. I'd rather see a child get adopted to a gay couple than get flushed down the toilet.
But if you are against abortion, and pro-family, then buy American. That's what I say.
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