Liberals never address the fact that raising a company's tax rate is simply raising prices for the consumer. Everything they pay in taxes is added to the final price.

I guess we are paying the tuition for her to "study" art at this institution! Ugh!

Libs love to boo-boo about how people can't be expected to get themselves to the registration point to get an ID. (Hmmm. Those same people sure can get themselves to the 7-11 to buy cigarettes!) Why can't we have roving registration? How about using those famous "Bookmobiles" to register people to vote. Make the rounds three or four times in the months before an election. If you concentrate on locations in the "poor" neighborhoods, everyone will have the opportunity to walk to a registration point.

You wrote: "SURE, it may cause scarcity in the insurance industry, but having everyone receive health care has OTHER benefits that far outweigh that scarcity."
I just can't agree with you. First, no one here is saying we should turn people away from decent health care. I simply say: "why does it have to be EQUAL health care for all". EX: 2 people need treatment for a sore throat. First person pays a lot of money for a very good BCBS health policy. Second person has "free" health care from the gov't (taxpayers). Why should both have access to the same doctor. The person who pays might see an ENT specialist. The person who doesn't pay might see a nurse practioner at a local clinic. Person one probably won't have to wait in...

It's not about health CARE, it's about health INSURANCE! Why do we have to reform the insurance that most people are happy with? If they want to provide health care for those who can't afford it, then let's open clinics, staffed by doctors, nurses and (lots of) nurse practitioners. This would keep the uninsured out of emergency rooms unless they really need to be there. Offer med students "free" tuition and training in return for x years of service in the clinics. Just like the military pays for doctors to go to school in return for military service. Result? More doctors and nurse practioners to serve more people.
The poor may not have the "Best" doctors like the people who have top-notch health insurance. But, why should...

Aaaaaarh! Why can't they just put bomb-sniffing dogs in airports and ON PLANES? Lots of dogs! Would that just make too much sense? Wouldn't it be better than spending billions of dollars on thousands of body scanners that no one wants to use? Dogs don't require a paycheck, a benefits package or a pension. I know, the handler does. So, we have to hire handlers. Ok then. Obama could crow about jobs being created.

The CBO estimates of the the price of the latest health care legislation do not include the annual administrative costs. They will have to create a new, huge agency in DC. It will require hiring (hundreds of) thousands of new government workers. Imagine the salaries and perks and the "till-DEATH-do-us-part" pension benefits. Of course, these will be mostly union employees and they will mostly vote Democrat!

Dems keep telling us the price of our health care (insurance) policy will not go up. But, what they aren't saying is, that we will also have to purchase the equivalent of an additional policy each month for some underprivileged person who can't or won't buy his own. Yeah, the price is the same, but you have to buy two now instead of one!

"With thousands of pages creating 53 new boards and bureaucracies,......" One of my main gripes about the bill and the way it is being presented to the public - The CBO cost estimates DON'T include the annual administrative costs. It will require thousands of new government workers to administer this gargantuan policy! Those workers come with huge expenses, the biggest being their lucrative pension and health benefits.