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Obama on whether individual mandate is a tax: 'It is absolutely

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by: vrab Active Indicator LED Icon 1 OP 
~ 11 years ago   Jun 28, '12 12:18pm  
Sep 20, 2009Obama: Mandate is Not a TaxABC News Interview GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: ...during the campaign.  Under this mandate, the government is forcing people to spend money, fining you if you don't. How is that not a tax?OBAMA:  Well, hold on a second, George. Here - here's what's happening.  You and I are both paying $900, on average - our families - in higher premiums because of uncompensated care.  Now what I've said is that if you can't afford health insurance, you certainly shouldn't be punished for that.That's just piling on. If, on the other hand, we're giving tax credits, we've set up an exchange, you are now part of a big pool, we've driven down the costs, we've done everything we can and you actually can afford health insurance, but you've just decided, you know what, I want to take my chances.  And then you get hit by a bus and you and I have to pay for the emergency room care, that's ...STEPHANOPOULOS:  That may be, but it's still a tax increase.OBAMA:  No.  That's not true, George.  The - for us to say that you've got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase.  What it's saying is, is that we're not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you anymore than the fact that right now everybody in America, just about, has to get auto insurance. Nobody considers that a tax increase. People say to themselves, that is a fair way to make sure that if you hit my car, that I'm not covering all the costs.STEPHANOPOULOS:  But it may be fair, it may be good public policy ...OBAMA:  No, but - but, George, you - you can't just make up that language and decide that that's called a tax increase.  Any ...STEPHANOPOULOS:  Here's the ...OBAMA:  What - what - if I - if I say that right now your premiums are going to be going up by 5 or 8 or 10 percent next year and you say well, that's not a tax increase; but, on the other hand, if I say that I don't want to have to pay for you not carrying coverage even after I give you tax credits that make it affordable, then ...STEPHANOPOULOS:  I - I don't think I'm making it up. Merriam Webster's Dictionary: Tax - "a charge, usually of money, imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes."OBAMA:  George, the fact that you looked up Merriam's Dictionary, the definition of tax increase, indicates to me that you're stretching a little bit right now.  Otherwise, you wouldn't have gone to the dictionary to check on the definition.  I mean what ...STEPHANOPOULOS:  Well, no, but ...OBAMA: ... what you're saying is ...STEPHANOPOULOS:  I wanted to check for myself.  But your critics say it is a tax increase.OBAMA:  My critics say everything is a tax increase.  My critics say that I'm taking over every sector of the economy.  You know that. Look, we can have a legitimate debate about whether or not we're going to have an individual mandate or not, but ...STEPHANOPOULOS:  But you reject that it's a tax increase?OBAMA:  I absolutely reject that notion. 4951
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PedroDePacas Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 11 years ago   Jun 28, '12 12:25pm  
What a crook.
 
Romney is no better unfortunately. 4951
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Fallon Active Indicator LED Icon 18
~ 11 years ago   Jun 28, '12 12:48pm  
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PedroDePacas Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 11 years ago   Jun 28, '12 12:51pm  
 
Romney started a very similar bill/tax in Massachusetts. 4951
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Fallon Active Indicator LED Icon 18
~ 11 years ago   Jun 28, '12 1:14pm  
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TexINS Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 11 years ago   Jun 28, '12 1:17pm  
Perry's succession idea is more appealing by the day.
 
Idea: How 'bout the confederate states get together with Mexico and start our own country. Let the crap up north feed off of each other until they are no more.
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Fallon Active Indicator LED Icon 18
~ 11 years ago   Jun 28, '12 1:20pm  
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TexINS Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 11 years ago   Jun 28, '12 1:22pm  
I wish we could just give the **** clowns in washington play money and let them pretend to make laws. Meanwhile us grownups can continue our own pursuits of happiness. 4951
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~ 11 years ago   Jun 28, '12 2:52pm  
The individual mandate was put in to appease insurance companies. Since insurance companies can no longer deny coverage for pre-existing coverage, what's stopping every American from dropping their health insurance until they get sick? The insurance companies wanted reassurance that individuals would not drop insurance in droves and just pick it up later when they need it, which would raise insurance rates for everybody. If you are too poor to pay for your own health insurance, the government will offer assistance. If you can afford health insurance but simply wish to go without it, that is fine. The individual mandate exist so when you DO want health insurance, you can take advantage of the better competetive rates that will exist thanks to healthcare reform. Lack of health insurance is a major killer in the United States. A new study put out by the American Journal of Public Health estimates 45,000 deaths anually that can be contributed to lack of health insurance. I am very happy that congress has been able to pass any form of healthcare reform at all. I am happy that it will offer healthcare to millions of Americans that couldn't get it in the past, and do what it can to lower exorbant insurance rates. It also allows the FDA to approve new generic drugs to keep pharmacutical costs down. Finally something is being done with healthcare reform, which is something that republicans can't agree on if they tried. 4951
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~ 11 years ago   Jun 28, '12 2:58pm  
@derp
 
you have been listening to too much propoganda put out there. do your own research on what it will do to EVERYONE.
 
research the projected longterm costs. 4951
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TreHawks Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 11 years ago   Jun 28, '12 3:03pm  
I am happy that it will offer healthcare to millions of Americans that couldn't get it in the past
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yeah, healthcare that paid for with other people's money.  why should hardworking people be responsible for the healthcare of those too lazy to go out and get a job and pay for their own?
 
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~ 11 years ago   Jun 28, '12 3:08pm  
"Romney started a very similar bill/tax in Massachusetts."A state isn't the nation.  American citizens can escape state laws they don't like.  They cannot escape federal laws unless they leave the country.  That's a cornerstone of conservative ideals.  That people keep saying "they're all the same" shows they don't understand conservative ideals. 4951
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~ 11 years ago   Jun 28, '12 3:20pm  
The elections are between bad and worse.  4 years of politics and this is the best the right has to offer?
 
www.youtube.com/watc h?v=B7PG4j2K0dA
 
Obama could have taken those words himself to use for justifying ObamaCare.  Oh wait, he did.
 
Thanks Mitt!  ***hole. 4951
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~ 11 years ago   Jun 28, '12 3:42pm  

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>> I am happy that it will offer healthcare to millions of Americans that couldn't get it in the past
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yeah, healthcare that paid for with other people's money.  why should hardworking people be responsible for the healthcare of those too lazy to go out and get a job and pay for their own?
 
 
 
@TreHawks: Millions of Americans don't have healthcare because their employers do not have the means necessary to offer a healthcare plan by forking over half the costs associated making healthcare available to their employees. I just don't understand how Replublicans are OK with the current system that ties employees to a job just so they can recieve healthcare benefits. Health care should be affordable to an individual without their employer having to pay for half of it. The current system: 1. Ties employess to a job they may not be productive at or like just so they can recieve health insurance 2. Severely harms small businesses who cannot afford healthcare benefits for their employees.  I hate that the only way for an American to recieve health insurance is through their employer. Otherwise it is simply too expensive to handle, that is how expensive healthcare costs have become. I haven't heard much of a peep out of Republicans regarding the problem of employers having to take on the tremendous extra weight that health insurance costs them. Rather, most just complain that "Obamacare" is a bad idea.
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~ 11 years ago   Jun 28, '12 3:48pm  
derp- If someone chooses to work somewhere they dont offer health insurance, they buy their own!!!
 
thats how it has always worked! 4951
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derp Active Indicator LED Icon
~ 11 years ago   Jun 28, '12 5:24pm  
derp- If someone chooses to work somewhere they dont offer health insurance, they buy their own!!!
 
thats how it has always worked!
 
@PedroDePacas: But that is part what healthcare reform is trying to accomplish. Buying healthcare by yourself, be it because you're self employed or because your employer doesn't offer health benefits, is too expensive for the average American to afford.
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