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Interesting as well is the part of the proposal that demands that only “legal residents” have coverage. Under this blue ribbon plan, the 230,000-300,000 illegal residents here will continue getting “free” medical care at emergency rooms. Those scofflaws who happen to be here legally, but who cannot afford medical insurance for themselves, will continue paying for this “free” healthcare for illegals on top of their fines. More, there will be a “snack and soft drink tax.” What’s that even mean? I snack on apples and nuts and my idea of “soft drink” includes tomato juice and soymilk. Moderate drinking of red wine, it’s believed, is very good for your heart. Maybe when you buy a bottle of wine at the liquor store, the clerk will ask whether you’re drinking for your health or to someone else’s, and tax you accordingly?
Even if Governor Ritter can’t find anyone but nuts to sit on his commissions, could he at least try to find nuts who aren’t also idiots?
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the blue ribbon is pretty dirty and is looking at hillary care for only 110 billion a year, and that will have to be at least 1/4 of the real cost, and the requirement to prove you have insurance to get a job.
now that is health care reform.
Posted by on September 18, 2007 03:31 PMNow don't go bothering those guys. They were all selected for their inability to trust individuals and their proven dedication and fealty to the concept of government as the highest good.
The idea of making individuals responsible for choosing, paying for and sensibly using their health care plans and providers is foreign to them.
Just be grateful for TABOR. It is our only protection from such people and the confiscation of our earnings they and their ilk live to impose on the majority who work for a living.
Posted by momma y on September 18, 2007 07:53 PMThe price tag on the Blue Ribbon commission's healthcare "fix" has been floated at around $26 billion per year--about $5,000 for every man, woman and child in Colorado per annum. At the moment, Ritter has 17 tax hike proposals on the table, all awaiting taxpayer approval. That number is bound to increase; let's KO each and ever one of them. Meanwhile, Ritter is keeping much needed tax receipts "out of bounds" by immunizing the energy-rich Roan and Vermillion. This guy needs to take his tin-foil-hat off and introduce himself to planet Earth.
Posted by Hank on September 19, 2007 07:08 AMThis is what happens when you vote democratic. TAX TAX TAX - eventually they will collapse our states economy because our taxes will soar.
Think about it people - where is this money for their boondogle going to come from? US, and eventually as has been described previously in these posts rationing will take hold and the overall quality will plummet . Unfortunately once they sucker us into this there will be no turning back.
I want to be able to opt out and purchase my own insurance (as I already do) and forgo the looming disaster that is single payer (or taxpayer) funded healthcare.
If any of you think politicians have a clue about the real world, that they are defended from by our tax money, you are a delusional as they are. I don't know this for truth but, I suspect the legislators have a group health plan that covers everything, which us sane people can get. When a person is gauranteed their pay check regardless of if they do anything to earn it and, if they do something in the offical capacity that is criminally detrimental to the public, they can't be prosecuted, civilly sued or in any other way held resonsible, how do you expect them to have a sense of resposibility to those who elected them to public office.
Posted by Allen Campbell on September 19, 2007 10:07 AM