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Pelosi: Buy ObamaCare or go to jail

Posted 12 Nov 2009 in Congress, Democrats, healthcare, liberals, Nancy Pelosi, Obamacare, totalitarianism

Ah, the compassion of the Democrat party. Now, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is admitting that the 1,990-page bill that was passed in the House last Saturday evening dictates those who fail to obey the federal mandate to buy health insurance will be thrown in prison.

Stone: Do you think it’s fair to send people to jail who don’t buy health insurance?

Pelosi: … The legislation is very fair in this respect.

Ed Morrissey adds a dose of common sense:

Nothing requires us to pick up the tab for people in clinics or emergency rooms, especially those who can afford to pay their way. This is the point that Pelosi and her statist colleagues seem to forget. People who choose not to buy coverage even though they could afford it assume the risk of paying out of pocket — and that may be a very rational choice, as it is most unlikely that those people would use $3,000 a month in medical services, which is what their insurance would cost now.

Exit question: Would Speaker Pelosi use federal agents or local police to arrest the uninsured? If it’s the latter, does H.R.3962 contain provisions to compensate local law enforcement, or is this an unfunded government mandate?

Second exit question: If we can’t enforce our immigration laws and deport 20 million illegal immigrants, how will the federal government hope to enforce healthcare law and imprison 45 million uninsured Americans?
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UPDATE: Perhaps these mandated prison terms are why Democrats exempted themselves from their own “public option.”

More than 200 amendments were rejected by the House Rules Committee ahead of Saturday’s vote on the Democrats’ health care bill, including 11 that would have required members of Congress and other government officials to be enrolled in the same federal insurance plan proposed for the American people.

Critics of the health care bill said they offered the 11 amendments – including some that would require the president, vice president, and Supreme Court justices to give up their Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP) to enroll in the ‘public option’ or Medicaid – to showcase the problems with the massive legislation.

“If Congress forces our constituents into a public option plan over time, then members of Congress should be expected to do the same,” Rep. Howard McKeon (R-Calif.) told CNSNews.com.

The House Rules Committee attempt was the second time McKeon had tried to amend the Democrats’ health plan to include legislators in the public option.

“Democrats voted down a similar amendment, 21-18, in the Ways and Means Committee during the July markup of HR 3200,” McKeon said. “It became apparent then that Democrats are afraid of being put on a government-run health care program, but that fear does not extend to the welfare of their own constituents.”

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