The Socialist Nightmare

[FlashLackey]

Because it doesn't.

I proposed a solution that includes giving everyone a voucher to cover yearly health insurance costs and that doesn't mean that I am proposing a solution giving everyone a voucher?

Good twist, seriously misguided. I don't think you quite understood how this company - or any outside of your own - might cover their employees.

Can they or can they not pay for medical insurance out of their employees checks?

As far as the tax on fast food... again. Put yourself at risk - it's absolutely nothing to do with enforcing good eating habits, you have the choice to eat whatever - but with obesity being a huge, avoidable healthcare issue, you decide to eat wrongly, and later cause an issue... pay for it directly through your ill-decisions.

I understand that. But, I don't see taxes as being punitive. They are supposed to be collected for common use. If someone wants to pursue being fat, despite the consequences to their health, punishing them for it kind of goes against the whole life, liberty and pursuit of happiness concept.

I'm the same for drug-users. I'd drop people like Rush Limbaugh, or even Obama for that matter - from having the same kind of coverage as a person who couldn't afford it if a government option was ever to see fruition.

The opposite is likely to happen under a government plan. Treatments for things like drug addiction have more public sway than other lesser known conditions. We've learned that with Medicaid here in Oregon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afuek..._embedded#t=47