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Thank you for proving my point with your long string of incoherence. We've opted out of the plan offered by my employer to use the plan offered by my husband’s employer. Apparently, the ‘collusion’ between the company offering his plan and the company offering the plan I opted out of failed. In their attempt to ‘fix prices’, they weren't able to eliminate all of the differences. So we both noticed which one was clearly better for our circumstances, and we chose it. The command economy you envision with your Utopian fantasy would eliminate such choices by driving insurance companies such as ours out of business (We know you hate them). If insurance companies are so profitable and anyone can start one, then I think you should try. Or at least you should buy their company stock if you think owning such a company will supply you with such easy money.

I notice that there is no alternative to Social Security. Government doesn’t give us a choice of where to invest those retirement dollars, which never earn interest or show a positive rate of return. Younger Americans are paying the highest FICA rates ever with no chance of getting their money back before the system goes broke. Likewise, we are not allowed to opt out of Medicare, to use our share of the money spent there to participate in a program that isn’t already going bankrupt. I find it very ironic when leftists accuse the private sector of monopolistic practices, when government monopolies run by unaccountable bureaucrats are always their objective.

‘Anti-trust’ is just a weapon politicians use to attack the free market. Obama is just using it now as part of his protection racket. This is just his latest shakedown. Fifteen years ago the Community Reinvestment Act was his protection racket, where he and many other ‘community organizers’ (thugs), forced banks to lend money to sub-prime loan applicants. This created the bubble in the housing market, which burst when sub-prime borrowers defaulted, as their credit scores predicted they would. The result is the worldwide recession. Now that they’ve shaken down the banks for all the money they can get (being bailed out at taxpayer expense), their turning to the insurance companies. Next it will be the pharmaceutical companies. You’re just standing there waiting for your share of the loot you’ve been promised. Do I have to remind you of how many promises Obama made to you that he already broke?

Bringing up socialism's Nazi past didn't help your argument one bit. I don't recall mentioning Socialism or Nazism here, which calls into question the reason why you did. Obviously, you had a chip on your shoulder. I just knocked it off.

Barbara of MO 2:13AM October 28, 2009

Barbara says Leftists want to take her health plan. I websearched to find when insurance companies were exempted from anti-trust laws. The laws existed to prevent insurance companies from conspiring together to set prices. Obama seeks changes because insurance companies, as private parties, do all they can to increase their income from policies. The McCarran-Ferguson Act PL 15, 1945 was the anti-trust law. I didn't have time to do more research, but there's no doubt that when policy holders pay commissions on each policy, it increases healthcare costs. Anyone can form an insurance company & the smaller are often bought out. We need a taxpaid healthcare system. ANY project that's tax-funded is "socialistic." GI Housing & Education Bills were & are socialistic. For a long time, our military has been 100 per cent socialistic. Its members & dependents have taxpaid health care. At PX's & Navy stores, they get socialistic tax-subsidized low prices. Congress has socialized medicine. Americans have been conditioned to fear the word "socialist" because Nazis stole the word for the name of their wretched group "National Socialist Workers Party." It was the most PROFIT SEEKING group that ever existed, SELLING victims' dental gold, hair, etc.

aura dawn veirs of CA 5:07PM October 27, 2009

The left can’t deal with dissenting opinion. Unable to formulate cogent counter-arguments persuasive to those they disagree with, they attack, they smear, and they insult. But they are unwilling to consider the points of view of those of us who disagree with them. Why not just tells us, one more time, how racist we are for wanting to keep the money we earn, and for wanting to keep the health coverage we have? When Fox News exposes a politician or an operative for lying, and proves it, the lying is the problem, not the exposé. When other networks fail to expose politicians for lying, they are failing to serve their viewers, who wisely abandon them in favor of those who do serve them. This is why Fox News consistently has the highest ratings.

Barbara of MO 1:18PM October 27, 2009

FOKKKx is not a news organization, they are the research arm of the GOP. They should come out of the closet and stop pretending. They pump out hatred and would ot mind if the country fails to get more viewers.

dave of NC 2:52AM October 27, 2009