I actually agree with Republicans... WTF!

THe healthcare bill has passed and they are now going to mandate that all Americans buy healthcare from a private company. That, my friends, is a load of bullshit.

Today, ABC reports:

The individual mandate is an "unprecedented overreach by the federal government forcing individual citizens to buy a good or a service for no other reason then they happen to be alive or a person," Republican governor of Minnesota Tim Pawlenty said today on "Good Morning America."

The Republicans are challenging the constitutionality of the healthcare mandate and I agree and I hope they succeed. Some say, "well it's mandated that you purchase auto insurance on your car". Yes, only if you drive. You have an option not to drive. And if you individually refuse to not drive or have a job that requires driving, that doesn't make it something you HAVE to do. You are still choosing to drive. Not like you HAVE to be alive. The healthcare mandate is "you breath, you buy a product from a private, for-profit company". That is a perfect example of something that makes our free country a little less free. If our government wants every American to have health insurance, well they better find a wy to provide us with it.

And the subsidy for people who can't afford health insurance is no answer. It has a crap load of requirements and will be VERY hard to qualify for.

So, if the Republicans are unsuccessful and the mandate stays, I encourage people to not get healthcare if they wouldn't have without the mandate and I hope all of them refuse to pay the fine. I have a feeling that is going to be the case and it's going to cause a whole of problems and cost the tax payers a whole bunch of money. This is yet another one of Obama's great ideas that he royally fucked up on execution. And I'm not being sarcastic. The man has great ideas for making the country better, but by the time it gets passed he's compromised so much it turns into a steaming pile of shit. I have a feeling I won't be voting him into a second term.

I think we should do the opposite. I think everyone without insurance should refuse to get it, and I think people with insurance should start canceling it until they take the mandate out of the bill. We're supposed to live in a free country but we're being forced to do business with a private, for-profit company that's already charging outragous amounts, posting record profits and there is nothing it the bill that makes them lower their rates. They can actually still raise their rates a little more under this bill. It's fucking ridiculous. Everyone should cancel their insurance on the same day and send a message to the insurance companies that we're not taking it up the ass anymore.

But we won't, because we're lazy Americans who seem to have no problem taking up the ass from big corporations. So, good luck with that.

I know, I know, "but what if I get sick with no health insurance". I've lived for the past 10 years with no health insurance. I've been sick, I've been injured and I'm fine. and I'm not overrun with medical bills. If you know where to go, you can survive just fine. And this may come as a shocker, but most people don't need all the shit that they're on. There is no other country on the planet that suffers from as many "syndromes" or "disorders" than we do. And no other country takes as much medication as we do. "But what if I get cancer". Well, you can make all your decisions in life based on fear of what-if's, or you can do something that might actually be good for you and the country in the long run. It's up to the American people. We always want to blame the government for everything, but it's the American people that are responsible for everything that is going on in this country. You want more jobs: stop using companies that ship all their jobs overseas (Facebook being the newest company to do that), you want better banking rates: stop using the big private banks and switch to a credit union, you want better treatment of employees: stop shopping at Walmart and stores like it, you want better healthcare rates, refuse to pay for expensive insurance. We decide and we have decided that making a difference takes too much work. So screw the unemployed and screw the workers and screw the uninsured and screw ourselves, we don't want to put in the extra effort.