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Some say the government is moving towards socialism (and others say fascism) by requiring people to buy health insurance. And, of course, the insurance companies should not have to insure people with preexisting conditions, because health care premiums will obviously go up even higher than nowadays. And clearly, making people buy something they don’t need is undemocratic.

Well, I’m sorry but all that’s a bunch of bull.

First of all, everyday people buy auto liability insurance because states like New York (among others) say you can’t register a car without it. If you have a preexisting history of an accident within the past three years, your premium is raised. If you drop liability insurance, your license is suspended. Period. Yet nobody is accusing the state of New York of having a socialist or fascist government.

Secondly, health care premiums have been going up even before Obama’s time. One reason is that hospitals are paying health care for indigents who show up in emergency rooms with ailments, but with no money. So hospitals raise room rates and insurance companies raise premiums. Another is because taxpayers are subsidizing drug companies since Bush’s medicare drug plan and doctors hand out pills at the first sneeze.

But if healthy people have to pay nominal premiums – just like careful drivers have to pay for liability insurance – the money going to insurance companies will go up and if the system is truly competitive, rates for everybody else will drop.

And if emergency rooms simply say “no insurance, no healthcare” their costs will go down and their rates will go down. This should also decrease premiums.

Why don’t people wise up to Beck, Limbaugh, et al. These guys are getting filthy rich and living like kings (while acting like good old boys) blaming Obama, Democrats, liberals, socialists, fascists, communists, Marxists, Reid, Pelosi, Adolph Hitler and all combinations of the above without presenting any facts to support their hot-air arguments.

Most bloggers here are afraid that Republicans will buy into the Democrat’s attempts at compromise. But the reason Republicans are willing to give the Democrats a little help now is because if they end up running the House next year, with Obama’s veto power over their heads, they need the Democrats to help them, otherwise they will look as stupid as Gingrich’s House did under Clinton and probably be kicked out after two years.

Republicans are interested in protecting profits of their biggest campaign contributors, not in protecting the rights of citizens. And right now, the big corporations (and wealthy investors) want the right to give money to China rather than employ Americans.

Of course, the banks want to keep lending money (which they get for zero percent) to people to need (artificially) high-priced real estate – but with no protection against foreclosure if they happen to lose their jobs to the Chinese – which is going to keep happening as US capital moves from us to them.

You notice Limbaugh and company never complain that the richest Americans are increasingly investing money (they made from Americans) to (socialist, repressive) China. No they just support the idea of continuing tax relief for those rich investors (who just happen to be paying their big incomes).

There is no way the Republicans will help the middle class economically and if you think otherwise, you are dreaming. Wake up and smell the bul..sh..t.