Healthcare
From the Forbes’s article which attempts to persuade us that Obamacare really is chock full of puppy dogs and sunshine just as Obama promised: Failure on the part of insurers to meet this requirement will result in the insurers having to send their customers a rebate check representing the amount in which they underspend on [...]
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From an answer on the Quora question “Why do many Americans think that healthcare is not a right?”: First and foremost we need to eliminate God from the discussion of rights. God is an issue of faith and to assert that rights are a product of God infers that those who are not faithful do [...]
Healthcare is not a right. Since that sentiment has been shared quite a bit by itself, allow me to elaborate. To say something is a right is is to obligate others to perform services and provide goods in accord with that right, otherwise the right is stripped of its meaning. Traditionally rights have been seen [...]
A liberal friend of mine sent me this article from Forbes which attempts to argue that “Congress Passes Socialized Medicine and Mandates Health Insurance -In 1798″ From the article: In July of 1798, Congress passed – and President John Adams signed -“An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen.” The law authorized the [...]
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Contra to Politifact, the government takeover of healthcare, characterized by the existence of strict government oversight as to who gets what treatment when and where (aka, “death panels”), or none at all, is very real. Its also increasingly hard to sustain the notion that the government takeover of healthcare is not an established fact when [...]
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The self-styled Southern Baptist watchdog site BaptistPlanet posted recently about the impact of repealing healthcare. Specifically, the site author attempts to paint Richard Land, the SBC’s chief lobbyist, as evil for putting policies and partisan politics above human life. Even the title of the post, “The cost in lives of Richard Land’s health reform repeal”, [...]
Google recently decided to increase the pay of their homosexual employees to cover a tax on health benefits given to domestic partners. What is this tax? According to the NY Times: Under federal law, employer-provided health benefits for domestic partners are counted as taxable income, if the partner is not considered a dependent. The tax [...]
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