Obama's HCR proposal trims individual mandate penalty

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The House and Senate bills both require payments from individuals who choose not to get health care coverage. Obama's plan lowers the maximum penalty for individuals.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/22/health.care.details/index.html?section=cnn_latest


Therefore making a bad idea less bad.

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1. actually, that's not entirely true

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7768603

And mandates will ALWAYS be a BAD idea, no matter how many loop holes you attach.

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4. I'm not against ALL mandates --

Clean air, clean water, worker safety, etc --

I'm against this mandate because it merges private business
and government services.
Not unlike the military industrial complex.
Once merged -- we will not fix that.
And no it won't be regulated the way say electric companies are.

[Vincardog]

2. How is it that 'health care' required private health insurance?

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3. We can hold our breath for fixing it suppose.

Though why intelligent -- living with good examples of health care all around
them -- have to create a system with penalties
is a mystery.

Hope and change without previous verification.