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• Anonymous

  It galls me to no end that my tax money is being used to defeat this first effort to provide healthcare for all.  I sincerely and with all my heart hope this ridiculous political ploy to quench the Affordable Care Act fails.

  Hey Schneider, the insurance companies wish you the best! Say, do you get a nice big payoff bonus if you are successful?

  • Anonymous

    Stop drinking the Kool-Aid & take a real look at the ACA.  Check out “defendyourhealthcare.com” for the truth about this abomination.  Any time a politician (in this case, Pelosi) says “You have to pass it to see what is in it” you should be VERY alarmed.

    • Anonymous

      Obamacare means never having to worry about getting sick and running
      up against a lifetime cap on insurance coverage. It gives parents the comfort
      of knowing their kids can stay on their insurance until they’re 26, and that a
      “pre-existing condition” like an ear infection will never compromise
      their child’s coverage.

       

      It’s about ending the practice of letting insurance companies charge
      women 50 percent more — just because they’re women.

       

      And Obamacare can save seniors hundreds of dollars a year on
      prescription drugs — and gives them access to preventive care that is saving
      their lives.

       

      President Obama never lost sight of the fact that this reform is about
      people. People like his own mother, who spent the last years of her life
      fighting cancer — and fighting with insurance companies, too.

       

      That shouldn’t happen. And because of Obamacare, it can’t.

       

      So next time you hear someone railing against Obamacare, remember what
      they’re actually saying they want to take away.

       

      • Anonymous

        This may sound weird but when I graduated college at age 21 I was able to get a job and get my own insurance policy and had been doing it a full five years until I turned 26.

        You might want to research the George Bush Medicare Prescription Drug plan that lowered prescription costs for seniors. It has been around for about 8 years now.

        Many states, including Maine have made pre-existing conditions denials illegal. They have been able to do this without the help of the Federal Government.

  • Anonymous

    That bill is a rip-off, hopefully the Supreme Court will overturn the whole law.

    • Anonymous

      Health insurance in this country is a ripoff that this law is designed to alleviate. It is not the best law because of the obstructionist GOP and Blue Dog Democrats. 

      Every Congressperson who voted against this Act has the best publically funded healthcare in the nation.

      • Anonymous

        Sounds like a lot of socialism. I agree about their publically funded healthcare. But to penalize someone for not buying it goes against the fundamentals of the Constitution. It used to be that the States were more autonomous, now the Federal Government has pushed theirselves to much into State issues.

        • Anonymous

          People who push states rights only do it to try and assert some sort of advantage for themselves.  Tell me, when a World War starts do the states each send their own army?   This whole states rights thing is out of control.  My understanding was that this was all decided during the Civil War.  States rights lost.  Get over it.

        • Anonymous

          Now that definatelyy sounds like a  socialist attitude. I am not talking about states being totally independent. States  have certain rights, the Federal Gov. should be overseeing things yes,  but not totally dictating certain things.

        • Anonymous

          Sounds like you love to be exploited by greedy insurance companies–who can cancel your policy as soon as you get sick.  They probably will, and yet you’ll keep defending them.  And when they deny your child coverage because she has a “pre-existing condition,” like acne, you’ll keep kowtowing.

        • Anonymous

          Never said that somethings should change, but do you really want to become a totally Socialist Country.

        • Anonymous

          You know what else galls me?  People who have never studied law that insist they are Constitutional experts.

        • Anonymous

          What does me, is so called legal experts complicating and messing a Constitution that was for the people.

      • loyalsoxfan

        Seamus,  unfortunately, the ” best publically-funded healthcare in the nation ”   which (they)  have access to is this……..extremists who provide (care) under the guise of synthetic, acid-based pharmacopial drugs which only serve to suppress symptoms  and do nothing to cure the root cause of illnesses brought on by toxins……..I remember the day when I GAVE BACK my medicare rights (and gained + 113.00 per month in my check)    as vividly as the day and hour I gave birth to my first child…….!!!!!!     Obama can stick it where the sun don’t shine……..honestly….a couple hours of sunshine per day,  and a PURE bottle of 22.00 olive oil,  a funny movie,  fresh air,   loyal pets, and a decent sermon on Sunday, and basically I am set…..no studies have shown that meds EXTEND one’s life for a day……We saw what happened to Teddy K. when he went on Lipitor……acid environment is RIFE to feed (cancer)……flush out toxins,  eat nice, and one’s immune system is a healer……I hope every Congress-person (chokes)  on  their antacids….(aluminun-based)…….I simply wish all the corrupt bas*****  well in hell…….I predict all 50 states  in the Union will seceed,  and TPTB  (  The Powers That Be )  will be left in DC to count their (worthless)  paper money , whilest playing nightly tiddley winks…….LOL…….Shane Michael,  if you are reading this ,  Ma loves you,  yeah, what the hell…..xoxooxoxoxoxoxox 

    • Anonymous

      That won’t happen regardless of the ruling.  Check meaningful analyses elsewhere.

    • Pat T. Riot

      The Supreme Court could very well rule parts of the act unconstitutional.  Five out of the nine justices are conservatives appointed by Republicans.  I would have thought it was a ‘given’, but a lot of Supreme Court observers think that some conservatives on the court might possibly hold the act to be constitutional.  We’ll see.

      I’ve always thought that conservatives would like the individual mandate.  Generally they hate the idea of someone getting something for nothing.  They are always complaining about people who don’t pay income tax.  The plan was originally conceived by conservatives in the mid-90’s, and the presumptive Republican nominee for the presidency successfully implemented a similar plan in Massachusetts.  Of course, he has been shaking his Etch-a-Sketch hoping that people won’t remember. 

      Medical care and insurance obviously qualify as interstate commerce.  Good old Anthem isn’t a Maine company.  And when someone in California receives medical care and doesn’t pay, we here in Maine have to pay through higher insurance premiums and taxes.  This isn’t quite the same as that Californian refusing to eat broccoli and worrying about the feds making him choke some down.  (Sorry broccoli farmers for my obvious prejudice against your vegetable.  I’m working at becoming more tolerant.)

• Clammin Steen DigginBay

  Who needs healthcare?  CHENEY and his likenesses have it and, may need some more organs and there’s plenty of us to choose from. They work 5 years and get pension for life with full benefits paid for by us. Thankfully I have the VA for my insurance for life and its better than my neighbors.  I apologize to the rest of you and appreciate what you do for others including growing those organs. I can hear the sheepherder calling, got to go. Don’t worry about your neighbor’s health either you probably wont catch it…..

  • Anonymous

    Cheney, just to be accurate, worked in government for decades, not 5 years!

    • Dlbrt

      The man never worked anything but deals for haliburton.

      • Anonymous

        Now that was well said!

• Mike Kiernan

  Watch and see if Schnieder , when he comes out on Wedesday, is in any hurry to make a press statement. $ 3 will get you $10 that he’s going to do all he can to stay away as far from the press as he can. Moreso now since he’s got his Senate ‘campaign wagon’ hitched to his participation in this mess that he’s gonna be stuck with like a child support order around his neck. Maine was told, by both responsible, moderate Republican’s, any number of run-of-the-mill ‘coffee shop’ Independent’s and a whole lot of Democrat’s that this case was a loser from Day 1. Schneider had a public responsibility, not a political one, to determine if the Law was in conflict with the State’s Constitution, and if so to advise the Governor and the Legislature of how it did and what were the options available to it. This Supreme Court case was the last option that should have been considered, much less exercised, as there were, and still are, any number of options open. But no, Paulie and Billy want to make a big splash with the National GOP for the Senate Seat. Fine, they make a big splash and then what ? If the healthcare law doesn’t pass muster we are all back to what we know does not work. How does that help anyone except Schneider screwing Maine just so he can make campaign speeches. Big deal ! And if the law passes then he can claim he ‘fought the good fight against those nasty Big Government type’s who fly black helicopter’s’. Please, some one find me a bucket, I’m gonna be sick !.

  • Anonymous

    “Watch and see if Schnieder , when he comes out on Wedesday, is in any hurry to make a press statement.” 

    The whole LePage Administration seems to have been advised to  keep quiet and in fact get out of Augusta so as not mess up the chances of ALEC agenda getting passed.

• Anonymous

  I’d hope this clown and “his” efforts to reverse ACA is speaking for himself and NOT for the people who benefit from ACA. Additionally, his travel funds should be from his own pocket, and NOT tax deductible,

• Anonymous

  So a bunch of you folks think it is ok for the federal government to FORCE you buy insurance? Really? Is it ok for the government  to FORCE you to buy any thing? This is ok with you..?  You are being forced and if you don’t buy it, you will be fined.  Please, please, read the bill and see what you are being pushed into, it is not pretty.

  • Anonymous

    Had it not been for the GOP (and that %&(@# Senator Lieberman) there would have been a universal healthcare plan in place by now.  It probably would have removed the “for profit” portion of the insurance premiums with the result that we’d all be covered and it would cost less.  Thank your republican friends for this debacle riffraft.  Personally I’m hoping this is the first step towards a universal healthcare plan for everyone in America.

  • Anonymous

    Besides that, if this remains law & the government can FORCE us to purchase insurance, what else can they force us to buy?  A particular car? A certain house? Maybe no house? Think before you jump all over opponents of this law.

    • Anonymous

      Obamacare means never having to worry about getting sick and running
      up against a lifetime cap on insurance coverage. It gives parents the comfort
      of knowing their kids can stay on their insurance until they’re 26, and that a
      “pre-existing condition” like an ear infection will never compromise
      their child’s coverage.

       

      It’s about ending the practice of letting insurance companies charge
      women 50 percent more — just because they’re women.

       

      And Obamacare can save seniors hundreds of dollars a year on
      prescription drugs — and gives them access to preventive care that is saving
      their lives.

       

      President Obama never lost sight of the fact that this reform is about
      people. People like his own mother, who spent the last years of her life
      fighting cancer — and fighting with insurance companies, too.

       

      That shouldn’t happen. And because of Obamacare, it can’t.

       

      So next time you hear someone railing against Obamacare, remember what
      they’re actually saying they want to take away.

       

      • Anonymous

         Gimmee Gimmee Gimmee 

    • Anonymous

      Actually you are already required to buy a vehicle with government mandated features.  Ditto with the building codes for your house, your food, your clothes, your medicine, an education, social security, etc.  There is a reason for these laws.  These laws are put in place for the greater good of America’s citizens.

    • Anonymous

      A non-existent, hyperbolic slippery slopenon-argument.

  • Anonymous

    Obamacare means never having to worry about getting sick and running
    up against a lifetime cap on insurance coverage. It gives parents the comfort
    of knowing their kids can stay on their insurance until they’re 26, and that a
    “pre-existing condition” like an ear infection will never compromise
    their child’s coverage.

     

    It’s about ending the practice of letting insurance companies charge
    women 50 percent more — just because they’re women.

     

    And Obamacare can save seniors hundreds of dollars a year on
    prescription drugs — and gives them access to preventive care that is saving
    their lives.

     

    President Obama never lost sight of the fact that this reform is about
    people. People like his own mother, who spent the last years of her life
    fighting cancer — and fighting with insurance companies, too.

     

    That shouldn’t happen. And because of Obamacare, it can’t.

     

    So next time you hear someone railing against Obamacare, remember what
    they’re actually saying they want to take away.

     

• Anonymous

  If polar ice is melting why is everyone so polar iced?

  • Anonymous

    Cute.

  • Anonymous

    LOL

• Lord Whiteman

   In a recent survey of legal experts 80% predicted the court would uphold the law on Constitutional grounds. Possibly by an 8-2 margin.  >>>>> Congress has broad power under the Commerce Clause to regulate even personal, noncommercial decisions when those choices in the aggregate have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.<<<<<>> Americans who choose not to buy health insurance and then seek medical care they cannot afford  are shifting tens of billions of dollars in unpaid medical expenses onto government and hospitals.<<<<<

  • Anonymous

    Is that like forcing us to pay for birthcontrol.

    • Lord Whiteman

       Except birth control by it’s very nature, lowers healthcare costs for everyone.  It’s the people who don’t have health insurance but still get health care that drive the cost up for the rest of us. Even retired people are forced to go without services because of this problem

      • Anonymous

        It may be true, but to  pay for something so they can have all the sex they want is not right either.

        • Anonymous

          You want to whine about something bruce?  Whine about the incredible greed of insurance and pharmaceutical companies.  If you were not paying for their obscene profits you wouldn’t even notice the little that goes towards birth control.  Geez, think about it will ya!

        • Anonymous

          I know and it is the same as the oil co., unfortunate we want everyone else to drill, but the democrats don’t. Which is weird since they are always whining about how much certian Republicans reap in the money from oil co. I am sure you are talking about the obscene money we pay for abortions too? I imagine you believe in most cases it is a necessity.

        • Anonymous

          Relevance of the drilling for oil issue?  That’s equally complex and not as simple as “Drill, Baby, Drill”.

        • Anonymous

          That may be true, but the very least you should be looking at the issue.

        • Anonymous

          Any busines of yours?  Ours?  I think not.

        • Anonymous

          I guess then we should not be paying for contraceptives then.

        • Lord Whiteman

          You where born. Just how do you think that happened?

        • Anonymous

          not with publically paid contraceptives that is for sure.

        • Lord Whiteman

          How can you be so sure. You were not there yet, after all.

        • Anonymous

          Just going by what your guy in the Whitehouse wants to do.

        • Lord Whiteman

           Well Bruce, if the President of the US was there are your conception then I’d say you have a beef.

        • Anonymous

          To be more specific, I was talking about the President wanting Insurance companies to pay for all contraceptives for women, regardless of the hospital or the cost.

        • Lord Whiteman

          You are not being charged for someone else s birth control because ,contraceptives save insurance companies lots of money……….  It’s the same reason I get yearly physicals and flu shots for free even though I have a $1500 family deductible.  it’s cheaper to prevent any kind medical treatment then it is to provide it. 

  • Anonymous

    A margin of 8 to 2. That is pretty interesting considering there are only 9 judges to begin with. And five of them were appointed by the Bush Presidents and Reagan.

    • Lord Whiteman

      I meant to say 7 to 2. With Kennedy and Roberts joining the 4 progressive judges and  Scalia and Thomas as the only dissenters.
       Even Scalia could support the mandate since he just recently said Federal law trumps state law on the medical marijuana issue

      • Anonymous

        It will be interesting to see what happens.

• Dlbrt

  Will he wear a dress and carry Pom Poms?

• Anonymous

  Terrific reason to NOT vote the AG into the US Senate.

  • Anonymous

    Considering he is not running I am not sure exactly what your post is meant to mean.

• Anonymous

  Someone handpicked by the Maine Republican party doesn’t represent me.  Another reason to polularly elect the AG, Secretary of State, etc.

• Tom

  Gummint can’t force me to buy ANYTHING! Want socialized medicine? Move to Canada.