Simply . . . priceless.

Is there any compelling reason medical coverage must be either government or employment based? Afterall, premiums paid by our employer are a function of compensation, currently not taxed, but compensation just the same. With the changes in the workplace over the last generation, portability is a major concern, isn't it?  Does the government or employer sponsor provide your auto,homeowners/renters,boat,motorcycle,truck,personal/professional lability or non-group life insurance?If we can make decsins on these, usually designed to fit our individual circumstances, why shouldn't we be able to make decisions on health insurance?  How else, combined with price transparency will we be able to build a healthcare marketplace, with government oversight, that puts concumers in control?  Every other "reform" discussed thus far leaves decision making, ultimately,with the government. Look at its actual record in providing healthcare.  Is it something you want to expand? Really? Why?

Even Obama himself in his infomercial said he would go outside a government plan,(whether it was permitted or not), if his family needed it.  Are we willing to accept the consequences, both individually and as a society, for this transfer of choice and freedom to a bureaucratic system that answers only to its politically driven masters.

Good video Noel.

Scene:  Next year two old men chewing cigars and telling lies (pastime).

First:  "Walll, I'm sure glad they did all the economic stimulas, there's a lot of new faces at the pool hall in the afternoon now."

Second:  "You think that spiced up your social life?  I just took what was left of my retirement funds and bought a box of $10.00 Cigars.  Here, have two."

First:   "Well, since the IRS took the house and I still owe for the mortgage I haven't had any cigar money, thanks."

Second:  "Think nothing of it.  Next week the FDA will only allow cigarettes with zero nicotine content anyway.  Might as well see the old rusty traditions out in a pall of smoke.

"Have you figured out where you are going to live?"

First:  "Nope.  The kids are all homeless now and I didn't have anything left to offer them when I had to close my business.  That Carbon Tax is wonderful, I don't lie in bed trying to figure out how to make payroll anymore.  It was easier when the government started paying all the health care stuff, I just dropped the whole headache.

"Unfortunately, when the government started giving cash to those people for trading in useless wrecks, energy cost reimbursement and put the doctors on the payroll, my taxes ate up two out of three wages I was paying, I just can't build skyscrapers with those required Prevailing Wages and only hire five people to do it.

"So, I asked for a bailout, loan or grant - whatever - and was told I'd have to wait for Chrysler and GM to start makin' a profit before there was any more money for that stuff.  Guess I just was't big enough."

Second:  "Yeah, I tore out the furnace yesterday and put in a supply of surplus Army blankets for the winter.  Heating the house just doesn't come before food.

"Have you noticed the sale on tuna fish in the store?  It's only $8 a can today."

First:  "You still eat tuna fish?  I'm stuck on hard tack and what few beans survived that weird Frost this summer."

Second:  "I'm sure glad they passed that climate change bill.  Seems to have made a dent in that warming stuff."

First:  "It's the good life, this retirement.  I just wish I hadn't started on it at the age of fifty."

ACA

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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)