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Originally Posted by K_style
Pay your own bills if you don't have insurance simple as that I am sure the person chose that way.
How can you say all people will eventually require medical care? You speak for every single human being?
You want insurance? go head good for you. you don't? better know risk not having one but good for you.
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Most people don't choose to not have insurance. They just can't afford to have it.
What percentage of people do you figure will never require some sort of medical care? Is this really your argument?
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Originally Posted by 89s13steve
Incorrect. "progressive" aka leftist/socialist groups wrote most of the bill. Different groups wrote pieces of it over several years, basically since the original idea was pushed during the Clinton administration. All of their pieces were just thrown together in a matter of weeks when the subject came up in 09. Neither insurance companies or healthcare professionals had any significant input in the writing of the bill. 99% was written by leftist PAC's and those pieces were assembled by congressional staff.
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Actually, democrats originally advocated the single-payer healthcare system (where the government covers healthcare costs instead of insurance companies). They compromised with republicans in 2009/2010 to get the healthcare reform version that we have today (which is essentially Romneycare). The funny part is that the much maligned "individual mandate" that requires people to carry health insurance was actually first proposed by republicans in 1993 as a response to Bill Clinton's healthcare reform bill.