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Republican Senator from New Hampshire Judd Gregg
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- Insurance
- bipartisan
- GOP
- health
- Republican
- McCain
- Democrat
- Boehner
- Obama
- health care
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doodahdaze 03/23/2010 12:57 PM Report
Jugg's republican-line argument doesn't hold water on this; Did enactment of mandatory auto-liability insurance wreck incentives?. In typical political fashion, he's compairing apples to oranges. Is he doing it on purpose?. I don't know, just like I don't know if he's taking bribes from the 'Bankers-Lobby', or if he's just ignorant.
REMant 03/23/2010 11:54 AM Report
Bigger govt, spending taking funds away from entrepreneurs, loss of jobs would, of course, be the Republican line, but, unfortunately it is fully compatible with their monetarist past. The debt question is really a completely different animal and apparently Sen Gregg does not yet fully realize it, just as he knows nothing of the tea party ppl. The debt of the wealthiest nations proportional to GDP is now at the level it was in 1950 according to the IMF. But none of this really is what is wrong with the healthcare bill. The healthcare bill isn't a bill to provide health care, it is one to regulate the health insurance industry and the primary provision is that Americans cannot be prevented from buying insurance, however, in order to head off a campaign against it by them, the industry was given a special status by requiring all Americans to buy insurance. This, though, removes market discipline and in the absence of any other means of capping costs, will undoubtedly increase them, especially as universal coverage will undoubtedly increase health care use. (Contra the senator I'm sure that the insurance cos will be sought after stocks and, indeed, they drove the market yesterday.) For those in the Congress who want to give away insurance, this has been held up as a boon. If all the bill did was to tell the industry they couldn't exclude anyone, which would not accomplish much, because they would just increase prices for all or some, it could be considered to have made health care a right, however, as it stands, it is an entitlement, and thus a privilege. (Ms Pelosi long a member of the privileged class, apparently does not know the difference.) Nevertheless, the provision mandating US citizens to buy insurance or pay a fine oversteps the Constitution. This is a prerogative of the states, not of the Federal government. Gregg is also wrong about immigration. This country must be considered a community, not a marketplace, if it wants to remain in anywise a nation, that is. On the whole I think Sen Gregg's views as outdated and inappropriate as Rep Pelosi's.