Pelosi: Jail time “very fair” for failing to buy your patriotic ObamaCare coverage

cnredd · #1 (**permalink**) 11-12-2009, 04:54 PM

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It’s very fair to send people who disregard the federal mandate to buy health insurance to prison, Nancy Pelosi says, because otherwise they’ll assault citizens … with a bill for medical services … or something. Apparently, the occasionally unhealthy have become such a security risk that we need to imprison them for opting to pay their own way.

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Stone: Do you think it’s fair to send people to jail who don’t buy health insurance?

Pelosi: … The legislation is very fair in this respect.

Of course, the other option is to make people responsible for paying their own bills. Nothing requires us to pick up the tab for people in clinics or emergency rooms, especially those who can afford to pay their way. This is the point that Pelosi and her statist colleagues seem to forget. People who choose not to buy coverage even though they could afford it assume the risk of paying out of pocket — and that may be a very rational choice, as it is most unlikely that those people would use $3,000 a month in medical services, which is what their insurance would cost now.

If nothing else, it reminds us that statism always comes with handcuffs, and those cuffs always get explained by either fairness or patriotism. In this case, Pelosi uses both.

The fallacy in the Democrats argument is the word "if"...

IF someone without health insurance goes to an emergency room, the taxpayer will ultimately pay (as they do now) unless they CHOOSE to do so out of their own pocket (whch many do now also)....

But what they don't look at is IF they do NOT...

In other words, there are PLENTY of people that will be FORCED to pay for health insurance (or risk the government putting them in jail) who will NEVER go to an emergency room...NEVER get prescription medication...NEVER see a doctor...throughout their WHOLE lives...

There are people who live to 40, 50, or more, would never use the healthcare system that they're paying for ONCE, and then die through an accident or other reason that healthcare NEVER could've helped them with...That means they received NOTHING from the government even though they were FORCED to pay throughout their whole working lives...

There's a term for that...It's called "stealing"...

Mustang Man · #2 (**permalink**) 11-13-2009, 11:45 AM

I really hate that "Sea-Hunt". I would love to see a meteor or something drop on her in the middle of speech to Congress.

GottaGo · #3 (**permalink**) 11-13-2009, 11:57 AM

Have I mention lately how much I intensely dislike Pelosi as a persona AND a polititian?

Have I made that PERFECTLY clear?

Mustang Man · #4 (**permalink**) 11-13-2009, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by GottaGo

Have I mention lately how much I intensely dislike Pelosi as a persona AND a polititian?

Have I made that PERFECTLY clear?

Someone should teabag that witch within an inch of her life.

nursej007 · #5 (**permalink**) 11-13-2009, 12:12 PM

We know the system is over crowded, so I'm wondering...
Is the plan to let drug dealers loose and put Christian Scientists in jail?

Mustang Man · #6 (**permalink**) 11-13-2009, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by nursej007

We know the system is over crowded, so I'm wondering...
Is the plan to let drug dealers loose and put Christian Scientists in jail?

Actually we might need the drug dealers since we won't be able to get medications that we need otehrwise.

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