It will be a f/hoot ----- "IF" this ever gets legs ------ to watch the mandate kick in --- the deadbeats forced to buy insurance and then the IRS chasing all their sillyasses down!
April FOOLS Day will undoubtedly be changed to: 4/15
I didn't win any battle. 30 million Americans who formally didn't have any health insurance and now do, won the battle. The war continues.
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ statement on Supreme Court ruling Posted on June 28, 2012 by Nancy Remsen
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., praised the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act. Like the other two members of Vermont’s delegation, he voted for the law in 2010.
“Today is a good day for millions of Americans who have pre-existing conditions who can no longer be rejected by insurance companies. It is a good day for families with children under 26 who can keep their children on their health insurance policies. It is a good day for women who can no longer be charged far higher premiums than men.
“It is a good day for 30 million uninsured Americans who will have access to healthcare. It is a good day for seniors who will continue to see their prescription drug costs go down as the so-called doughnut hole goes away. It is a good day for small businesses who simply cannot continue to afford the escalating costs of providing insurance for their employees. It is a good day for 20 million Americans who will soon be able to find access to community health centers.
“It is an especially good day for the state of Vermont, which stands to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in additional federal funds to help our state achieve universal health care.
“In my view, while the Affordable Care Act is an important step in the right direction and I am glad that the Supreme Court upheld it, we ultimately need to do better. If we are serious about providing high-quality, affordable healthcare as a right, not a privilege, the real solution to America’s health care crisis is a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system. Until then, we will remain the only major nation that does not provide health care for every man, woman and child as a right of citizenship.
The American people won!...Dick Morris has been a loser dating back to 1996 when he had to resign from the Clinton admin for getting involved with female prostitutes - he then found a home in the Repub party.
What in the world has happened to New Hampshire????
Bob Kingsbury, New Hampshire Republican, Says Kindergarten Leads To Higher Crime
A Republican New Hampshire state legislator told a county convention Monday evening that kindergarten leads to higher crime rates.
Rep. Bob Kingsbury (R-Laconia) told the Belknap County Convention that research he's been conducting for the last 16 years has led him to believe that kindergarten programs leads to higher crime rates, the Laconia Daily Sun reported. Kingsbury, one of the more conservative legislators in the Tea Party-controlled House, said that his analysis was of local crime rates in communities that offered kindergarten versus those that do not offer the educational program.
"We're taking children away from their mothers too soon," Kingsbury said, who also linked higher crime to the lack of boxing classes in high schools
Kingsbury's comments came during a discussion over whether or not to build a new county jail and why inmate populations continue to rise. He said he shared his research with other legislators when he tried to fight mandatory kindergarten in the state.
Kingsbury, 86, has a history of supporting ideas that differ from his fellow legislators. In January, he partnered with two allies of birther queen Orly Taitz to push a bill partially ending the direct election of U.S. senators. Kingsbury said that he believed that all U.S. Senate candidates should first be picked by the state legislature and then put up for popular vote.
Kingsbury, a vocal United Nations opponent, has also sponsored a bill raising the minimum age to be a judge in New Hampshire from 18 to 60. He told The Huffington Post that he believes that judges should have more "life experience" before taking office.
Last month he called for Rep. Steve Vaillancourt (R-Manchester) to be expelled from the House after making a Nazi salute on the floor in protest of House Speaker William O'Brien (R-Mont Vernon) during a debate over voter identification.
During a February House committee meeting over supporting statehood for the District of Columbia, Kingsbury questioned the District's crime rate and crime-fighting policies and suggested that statehood could cause New Hampshire's crime rate to rise by 25-percent.
Kingsbury also sponsored a failed effort to tie future state legislation to the Magna Carta, a move that he told colleagues was to honor the English document's history.
UPDATE:
Kingsbury's comments have become an issue in New Hampshire's gubernatorial race, with both Democratic candidates coming out against the comparison and questioning why the Republican frontrunner has not done the same.
Republican gubernatorial frontrunner Ovide Lamontagne was questioned about Kingsbury's kindergarten crime accusation during an interview Wednesday on WKXL. The host asked whether Lamontagne, a former state Board of Education chairman, agreed with the comment, which the host said could lead to the conclusion that his placing his own son in day care could turn him into a "serial killer" one day, according to Kingsbury's thought process.
Lamontagne did not give an opinion on Kingsbury's comments.
"Well, everybody is entitled to their opinion," he said. "This is America, after all. And what we need to be doing from the point of view of government and government leadership is enabling people to make decisions at the local level and their families, and so forth for the best services available to their children, whether educational services, health care, and so forth, and that is what I am going to be looking at, and certainly as governor of the state of New Hampshire I am going to stand with New Hampshire families across the board."
Both Democrats in the race, Maggie Hassan and Jackie Cilley, have called on Lamontagne to address the comments while condemning Kingsbury. Hassan called Kingsbury's comparison "quite frankly ridiculous" in a statement and suggested that Lamontagne will try to roll back kindergarten requirements as governor.
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