http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/04/a_triumph_for_d.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:10:41 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/04/a_triumph_for_d.html/comment-page-1#comment-59671 Ron Norton Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:48:00 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/04/a-triumph-for-divided-government.html#comment-59671 The Massachusetts Universal Health Law is nothing more than a huge consumer scam. How dare the government force us to buy worthless insurance products with high deductibles and co-pays that cover catastrophic illness only? This misbegotten legislation is really just a regressive tax on the middle class. We had little chance to comment on the bill, and no chance to vote on its merits. The last time the citizens of the Commonwealth were faced with taxation without representation they threw a "tea party". Perhaps it is time for an encore. I will defy the personal mandate and encourage other free minded citizens to do the same. We will never solve the problem of equitable health care access until we take the greedy, parasitic insurance companies out the delivery equation! The Massachusetts Universal Health Law is nothing more than a huge consumer scam. How dare the government force us to buy worthless insurance products with high deductibles and co-pays that cover catastrophic illness only? This misbegotten legislation is really just a regressive tax on the middle class. We had little chance to comment on the bill, and no chance to vote on its merits. The last time the citizens of the Commonwealth were faced with taxation without representation they threw a “tea party”. Perhaps it is time for an encore. I will defy the personal mandate and encourage other free minded citizens to do the same. We will never solve the problem of equitable health care access until we take the greedy, parasitic insurance companies out the delivery equation!

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