Obamacare: Do Expats Need To Buy Health Insurance?

[John.St]

Uh, let's see ... *opening US Congressional Checkbook*

1. Defense spending = $670 Billion Dollars. Value: Protecting US Borders, targeting domestic and foreign terrorists Result = more terrorists.

How much did the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq cost?

 

[John.St]

http://gawker.com/ki...ffor-1433866673

This should scare the crap out of anyone, independently of political affiliation. These are the folks who vote. These are the folks who pick the guys who will define US policy. And they are CLUELESS. They are the lowest common denominator, and politicians both on the left and on the right, cater to them.

Americans are not stupid.
http://www.dailymoti...-stupid_webcam?

(No doubt selected morons, but they are actually living in the US and are old enough to vote)

 

[John.St]

By removing the center of power of the federal government, and transferring most powers to the states, you thereby remove the power of the richest in a big way.

I doubt you have this right. Perhaps in states like Montana and North Dakota, but elsewhere I think it would just transform big fish in a big pond to big fish in a small pond. Think of a county where one company employs a third or half the workers - the company can - and do - dictate whatever it wants.

 

[John.St]

Many Argentines are completely baffled that US States can have different laws on the same subject.

Only because they are unaware that Argentina is a Federal state too, and that different states (here they are called 'provincias') can have different laws on the same subject, as in the US, within limits.

 

[John.St]

Correct!

Unfortunately Ron Paul was completely un-electable. The American population doesn't vote on reason. It votes on emotion. Electing Ron Paul would be like electing Ron Howard. Only when the current 2-party system actually succeeds in driving us completely into the ground will people wake up - and even then I'm not sure.

Like you eluded to, what many people fail to truly grasp is the 1) The origin of the Federal System and 2) How vast, dense, and diverse our population is. Many Argentines are completely baffled that US States can have different laws on the same subject. The Federal System works because it serves the people closest to it. Laws that would be appropriate for a community in Southern California are completely non-representative of a community in rural Alabama.

Do you realize, that to the present GOP Ronald Reagan would be a socialist?

 

[John.St]

Re. If housepets were libertarians: https://www.youtube....h?v=9foi342LXQE

 

[steveinbsas]

I remember a tragic/amusing incidence during the initial demonstrations against healthcare for all.

One of the protesters fell and broke a leg during the demonstration.

Afterwards he complained loudly over not having health care. Republican guy, of course.

What's really tragic is that the purpose of the "The Affordable Health Care Act" is not to provide health care for all and will result in less health care (and at a greater cost) for many.

The "Affordable Health Care Act" is all about centralized power and the redistribution of wealth. It "requires" all US residents to purchase health insurance and will never provide the "desired" health care for all. Health insurance premiums for many Americans will increase dramatically in order to subsidize insurance costs for residents with lower incomes.

Millions of those who are presently uninsured will not enroll in any insurance plan and pay the significantly lower fine until they actually need health care. Then, thanks to the "no exclusion for preexisting conditions" they will enroll in a plan and demand the health care they need (which those who voted for the law declared is a right). Provisions in the "AHCA" will determine whether or not they get the health care they need...and now believe to be a right.

Needs are not rights and the "AHCA" does not guarantee that all have equal rights. If you are too old you simply won't get the back surgery or pacemaker that you need...just a pill. Even BHO said so:

This video includes BHO "expanding on his original statement, including an additional comment that "ultimately" end of life decisions will be between physicians and patients.

And the options for those decisions will be predetermined by the law.

Just say goodbye, Grannie.

 

[John.St]

What's really tragic is that the purpose of the "The Affordable Health Care Act" is not to provide health care for all and will result in less health care (and at a greater cost) for many.

The "Affordable Health Care Act" is all about centralized power and the redistribution of wealth. It "requires" all US residents to purchase health insurance and will never provide the "desired" health care for all. Health insurance premiums for many Americans will increase dramatically in order to subsidize insurance costs for residents with lower incomes.

So, what you are in actual effect saying is, that Americans are plain incompetent dilettantes, because e.g. France, the UK, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and five Scandinavian countries can make it work with a lower GDP (PPP) per inhabitant than that of the US of A.

 

[John.St]

Millions of Poor Americans Are Left Uncovered by Health Law

because they live in states largely controlled by Republicans
http://www.nytimes.c...aw.html?hp&_r=0

Where do the Poor and Uninsured Americans Live?

-in the 26 Republican-dominated states not participating in an expansion of Medicaid are home to a disproportionate share of the nation’s poorest uninsured residents. Eight million will be stranded without insurance.
http://www.nytimes.c...ans-map.html?hp

 

[Jaredberryman]

So, what you are in actual effect saying is, that Americans are plain incompetent dilettantes, because e.g. France, the UK, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and five Scandinavian countries can make it work with a lower GDP (PPP) per inhabitant than that of the US of A.

Exactly the point. A small country like France, the UK, etc., can manage things fine. All countries the size of ... a state in the United States. If the national government has bungled things so badly the past 20 to 30 years, then why would we want to give it more power to bungle things further? You just proved my point exactly. Small states can manage things in a much more efficient fashion than a large one.