Health insurance mandate faces huge resistance in Oklahoma....what's wrong w/peo

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spanone (65,447 posts)

 
Health insurance mandate faces huge resistance in Oklahoma....what's wrong w/people?

 
Dr. Dalton McInnis, medical director for Baptist Mission Center Clinic, gives medication to patient Jaclyn Leathers in July. Leathers and her mother, Bonnie Mize (back, center), are both uninsured patients. The Oklahoma City clinic serves the uninsured population of the Stockyard City area.


OKLAHOMA CITY — The Supreme Court may have declared that the government can order Americans to get health insurance, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to sign up.

Nowhere is that more evident than Oklahoma, a conservative state with an independent streak and a disdain for the strong arm of government. The state cannot even get residents to comply with car insurance laws; roughly a quarter of the drivers here lack it, one of the highest rates in the country.


When it comes to health insurance, the effort to sign people up isn’t likely to get much help from the state. Antipathy toward President Obama’s signature health-care overhaul runs so deep that when the federal government awarded Oklahoma a large grant to plan for the new law, the governor turned away the money — all $54 million of it.

The idea that the federal government will persuade reluctant people here to get insurance elicited head-shaking chuckles at Cattlemen’s Steakhouse, an iconic old restaurant in the Stockyards City neighborhood, which is lined with street banners reading “Where the Wild West still lives.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/health-insurance-mandate-faces-huge-resistance-in-oklahoma/2012/07/29/gJQAeji0IX_story.html?hpid=z2

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021043529

Yeah really what is wrong with people who don't want the federal government to have the power to force individuals to purchase something? 

marlakay (3,670 posts)
1. Fox has told them its bad and will cost

A lot of money that we the people have tp pay...of course they don't mention that if you make little it will cost less or be free.

Yeah as premiums necessarily skyrocket it may as well be free, right? 

[Traveshamockery]

These DUmmies can never see the unintended consequences of every little thing they think they are entitled to. 

[thundley4]

marlakay (3,670 posts)
1. Fox has told them its bad and will cost

A lot of money that we the people have tp pay...of course they don't mention that if you make little it will cost less or be free.

Free?  Really?  God, you DUmmies are stooooopid.

[Jasonw560]

Just like Medicare/aid, food stamps, and other things. Free for them, costs us more.

[sybilll]

Just like Medicare/aid, food stamps, and other things. Free for them, costs us more.

Everything our beloved benevolent government hands out is "free", don'tcha know.  Everything you listed is "free".  Except you forgot free housing, daycare, school lunches, bus passes, utility assistance, WIC, cellphones, and Pell grants.  Oh, and now seniors get "free" annual check-ups, and preventative testing, and women get free birth control.  And it is all paid for out of "Obama's stash".  I swear, if I won the lottery, I would spend every single cent on a national commercial campaign explaining to the slope-headed Americans that not a gosh damn handout is ever, ever "free". 
~Rant off

[Jasonw560]

Everything our beloved benevolent government hands out is "free", don'tcha know.  Everything you listed is "free".  Except you forgot free housing, daycare, school lunches, bus passes, utility assistance, WIC, cellphones, and Pell grants.  Oh, and now seniors get "free" annual check-ups, and preventative testing, and women get free birth control.  And it is all paid for out of "Obama's stash".  I swear, if I won the lottery, I would spend every single cent on a national commercial campaign explaining to the slope-headed Americans that not a gosh damn handout is ever, ever "free". 
~Rant off

Thought I covered that in "other thngs"

[Karin]

Response to spanone (Original post)
Sun Jul 29, 2012, 10:07 PM
 NNN0LHI (66,457 posts)
8. All the Republicans I know would let their own children die from lack of health care

If doing that helped get the black fellow out of the White House.

Yes, this is true.

Don

   He's such an idiot. 

Response to BlueCheese (Reply #9)
Sun Jul 29, 2012, 11:23 PM
 spanone (65,462 posts)
13. he got what he could with the opposition....don't you think

Obamacare was 100% Demokrat.  100%.

[Kyle Ricky]

The Supreme Court may have declared that the government can order Americans to get health insurance, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to sign up.

Really?  Then why are so many states not participating in the exchange?

[wasp69]

Sun Jul 29, 2012, 10:07 PM
NNN0LHI (66,457 posts)
8. All the Republicans I know would let their own children die from lack of health care

If doing that helped get the black fellow out of the White House.

Yes, this is true.

Don

Tell me, retired union slug, just how many "Republicans" do you really know in whatever podunk, shit Illinoid burg you happen to live in?  How many, Don?

And the stupid notion of them denying their children healthcare to make a political statement? 



Pull the other leg, you lying cretin, it plays "Jingle Bells"...

Sun Jul 29, 2012, 11:23 PM
spanone (65,462 posts)
13. he got what he could with the opposition....don't you think

Little barry big ears enjoyed the luxury of owning the White House, a majority in Congress, and a super majority in the Senate...

What opposition?

[Texacon]

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KC