ronpaulvoter
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If you were President, would you have signed or vetoed the new health care bill?
I would have vetoed. The reason is the student loan rider that was included, and special deals to certain States.
I would have vetoed it. Sure, we probably need health care reform, but Obama and the Democrats refused to actually address the real problems with health care, they wanted to slap an absurdly expensive bandage on the problem, just like they did for the financial crisis, without even talking about the underlying causes.
That's where liberalism always fails.
If you were President, would you have signed or vetoed the new health care bill?
I would have vetoed it because it does nothing to address one of the main problems we face in our health care system which is bringing down the costs of premiums. If we still can't afford to pay the ridiculous costs than how can you even consider this legislation "reform."
What are the underlying causes that they didn't address?
The insurance industry and the legal industry. If they got both of those under control, health care wouldn't be so expensive to begin with, most people could afford it without governmental help. But they don't want to regulate either because both are major political contributors.
I don't understand how all these people have opinions on the bill when they haven't even read it. How do you know what's in the bill? Do you just believe everything politicians and pundits say?
Looking at the position of President Obama, you couldn't expect him to do anything but sign it. If I was in his position, after using so much of my time to get the bill passed, I would practically have to sign it, regardless of what it had.
If I hadn't spent so much time supporting it, I would probably veto it, and demand Congress pass a bill without so much crap, and so many special deals for votes.
I don't understand how all these people have opinions on the bill when they haven't even read it. How do you know what's in the bill? Do you just believe everything politicians and pundits say?
The bill as it was passed is garbage. It needed to be scrapped.
I know reform of our health care system is needed, this bill was not it.
I'm reading it currently, and I can tell you as an insurance professional that it most certainly will not reduce costs, it will exacerbate the problem. Risk models are skewed towards the negative with the mandates on private companies, liabilities are increased, and the "public option" foundation has not stop loss mechanism. This is going to be painfully expensive.How do you know it doesn't? Have you read it?
Would you have signed or vetoed the health care bill?
I'm reading it currently, and I can tell you as an insurance professional that it most certainly will not reduce costs, it will exacerbate the problem. Risk models are skewed towards the negative with the mandates on private companies, liabilities are increased, and the "public option" foundation has not stop loss mechanism. This is going to be painfully expensive.