Stossel dispenses utter distilled brilliance, shredding the foundational presumptions that are infecting a run-away Congress.

Feel free to point out all the things government does well. I won't even hold you to the standard set by private industry. Just tell me what they do well.

This is not news to most conservatives. It's heresy to the liberty grabbers. Market forces are the enemy.

Here's the meat. Pick any of these four points and write a coherent rebuttal:

Read it and weep. Once enacted, legislation this powerful, this antithetical to individual liberty, won't be overturned without revolution.

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God I love Stossel. He cuts through the bull(*)(*)(*)(*), to the honest to God, barebone facts.

He is absolutely correct on all 4 points/questions.

A real journalist, would be asking politicians these very questions. It goes to show you, just how bad our media is in this country and how they dont hold government accountable to the words they spit out on a daily basis.

IF Stossel were to ask a politician these questions, they would be stumped and simply walk away. No way they could or even dare answer them.

1. They run the military, your military, and by all accounts we have the best in the world.
2. They run NASA which no other country can compare with in accomplishment.
3. They run our Interstate highway system.

That's just 3. And you want all?

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Pelosi was quizzed on the constitution authority for her liberty grab and was essentially speechless.

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Agreed. What of the social programs? What of any program where price, supply or demand is distorted by dictat?

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Here are my answers from my understanding of things.

Demand isn't going to go up in the long term. Hospitals cannot turn away anyone that turns up in their hospitals for emergency treatment which is where they all end up in the end. Hospitals already cover this by passing on costs to other patients. In the short term, demand will go up, in the long term it will remain the same, less people will end up in ER and more will go for earlier treatment, which is vastly more cost effective.

You can buy anything if you have enough money. For the completely public insurance, yes there will be limits.

It will create choice for a lot of people who are unable to purchase health insurance due to pre existing conditions, etc. Can't imagine anyone would want to cut out anything that would be classed as "minimum" anyway.

Government monolopy over who? The poor? We have public and private health care. Everyone who can afford it goes with private health care. Why? You're covered for more things and you get a nicer hospital room, better meals, etc, etc. Private insurance is much nicer, but there needs to be an option for everyone.

Lots of other countries, including my own, have health care systems similar to what is being proposed by Obama. America pays twice the amount per person, that's twice the amount, of any developed nation and is mid table in terms of quality, availability and coverage of health care and waiting times. There is obviously something seriously wrong with your current system.

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How do you figure less people will end up in the ER? Will the ER start turning away non emergency treatment?

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Hell, they cant even figure out how to finish I-49....lol.

You can always tell when you come from a surrounding state into Louisiana. You start getting sea sick from the up and down motion...lol.

Hospitals, from my understanding, only have the "can't turn anyway away regardless of whether they can pay or not" policy from the ER and does not include early treatment or preventative treatment. For example... someone with an ingrown toenail can just go to a GP and get an antibiotic, problem sorted. Or they can wait for the problem to mature, and go and get expensive surgery. Obviously that isn't ER stuff, but just an example.