My cost without insurance for an MRI is $1,000. the insurance company paid $120 to the provider. My son’s hospital bill a few years ago came to over $50,000 yet the insurance company paid less than $15,000. I paid $1,000 out of my pocket and the Hospital tried to collect over $35,000 from me, untill I reported it to my insurance company.

It may be legal and somewhat fair to grant insurance companies huge discounts, but that would make healthcare more affordable to uninsured without any new government infrastructure or taxes.

In Obamaland Non-workers who receive welfare from the government are behaving properly because they are not evil capitalists, so they will not have to pay any income fees. And, of course, elite liberals who fail to report their full income and fail to pay income fees will be forgiven and made Czars.

n September 21st, 2009 at 1:58 pm, RedDog said:

Sooner or later, the American people will wise up. State legislatures and the people will eventually derail Little Napoleon and his Communist Congress.

they’d better hurry…frankly they should have listened to dear leader more closely while he was campaigning…he said exactly what he’d do and now look at what he is trying to do…

obviously he has a different dictionary than we do..any extra tacked onto any product or service that is added to the cost of the product or service charged by the provider is a tax….

Well, first of all, there’s 17¢ new-in-town tax, and there’s 45¢ rowboat-under-the-wharf tax, and one dollar leaving-your-junk-lying-around-the-wharf tax, so all together, you owe the Commodore $1.87.

Example: Universal Health Care (subsidized by those who already have health care).

Example: Automaker bailouts (majority ownership given to the unions who ran the industry into the ground).

Example: Cap and Trade (denying the use of our own natural resources, and forcing us to burn our own food).

Somebody please tell this wingnut that there is no higher job than President of the United States.

On September 21st, 2009 at 12:52 pm, On-my-soap-box said:
So, if I can’t afford coverage (and I can’t) the IRS will collect a fee from me on my tax return?

Sorta reminds me of the fine one pays on bounced checks: it’s a fine for not having enough money.

Do I really need the sarc/ tag?

LOL. Not for me.

He made some inane statement about finally rectifying the tax break that Busssssshhhhh gave to the rich.

Now, TigerLady, let’s be realistic here. Dropping the highest marginal tax rate from 38% to 35% was a travesty. The fact that the top 5% of earners in this country pay 59% of the tax dollars collected is not enough. How are we ever going to incent people to take risks and go out and make a fortune if we continue to do stupid stuff like letting them keep that money?

Do I really need the sarc/ tag?

What Stephanopolous should have done is read from the bill itself and not from the dictionary. This is not to defend Pres Obama but to demonstrate how much of a wet noodle Stephanopolous is.

This would have never happened with Tim Russert.

sonofdy said:
Clearly you being forced to give money to the government based on your income is not tax.
Its a a a,…. hmmm… DONATION thats it yeah, a donatio

Why don’t we just cut to the chase and call it what it is: theft.

I had a lib try to tell me that even if The Won passes his health care bill it will not raise taxes on the middle class. He made some inane statement about finally rectifying the tax break that Busssssshhhhh gave to the rich.
I laughed and walked away. Idiot sheep.