political foo: silent rebuttal

[alpharaposa]

Speaker's guests “are all employers who have run into unnecessary Washington-made barriers as they’ve tried to create jobs."

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[silussa.livejournal.com]

1) Roughly half the agencies cited are independent agencies, NOT under the control of the Executive Branch. Congress wrote the laws that set them up that way, and the laws that lets them write the regulations.

2) Just as my own personal note regarding Obamacare, which is the other half of the list...I'm healthy, 49 years old, and have repeatedly been turned down for catastrophic coverage because a doctor's visit when I was sick with the flu showed my blood pressure was high at the time (cold medication WILL do that, btw). My state started a system some years ago to help provide coverage in such cases, and then promptly closed it to new people due to the cost. Keep in mind, all I'm looking for is catastrophic level coverage...I'm comfortable with a huge deductible. But nobody will write the policy. Unnecessary? Well, I suppose I could get a new full time job, and get insurance that way...otherwise, my only hope of coverage is, as of now, when Obamacare mandates it in a few more years.

Or I could just have that major catastrophe, go bankrupt, and stick the taxpayers with the bill.

[anher.livejournal.com]

So it's worth you having healthcare even if it destroys the lives of thousands of others? Or, wait, maybe if Obamacare wasn't there it might be easier for you to find another full tine job and get insurance that way, since there won't be that extra drain on a prospectiveemployers funds.

The knife cuts both ways, and personally I'd rather not be forced to buy a product or get fined... neither of which Congress has the power to do last I checked.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Health insurance needs to be decoupled from employment. It's bad for employers, bad for the unemployed, and bad for entrepreneurs.

I've lived in a socialized medicine society (Canada) and it doesn't destroy anyone's life. As I've said before, though, Obamacare isn't a feasible plan at all. All it does is go, "Okay, let's take peoples' complaints with health insurance and, um, make those things illegal! Yeah, that'll work."

No, it won't.

[stryck.livejournal.com]

The broader point includes the fact that government regulations are a big reason why there aren't jobs. Obama gives a big speech, and says that all we need to do to fix the job problem is to throw more money at it.

There's more at work, here, and the President is missing it.

EDIT: on a healthcare note, if health insurance were opened up so that you could look for policies across state lines, I'm sure you could go online and find a policy that fit your needs, even if one isn't offered by a Florida group. That was a reform that was offered as a part of an alternative to Obamacare.

Jobs and the economy were actually recovering normally right up until Obamacare passed.. and then they stopped.