re: #262 Assless ChapJockey

In other words, while the US could pay the interest on its debt, it would have to choose whether to pay Medicare providers, or Social Security beneficiaries, or soldiers, or contractors whose payrolls depend on being paid for their work.

Tell me how this ‘reallocation of expenditures’, essentially taking 4% of GDP out of the economy in an instant, would not result in an immediate, deep recession.

If only a Republican think tank had come up with a plan for healthcare reform that was based in taking advantage of the free market to reduce the cost of insuring folks with preexisitng conditions by spreading them over a larger pool, by requiring everyone to have health insurance, since everyone is already unavoidably in that market…

Oh, yeah, they did. It’s called the Affordable Care Act, a Republican healthcare reform plan, passed by the House and Senate, and declared Constitutional by the Supreme Court.

I haven’t had the stomach to ask someone who voted for Romney why they would vote for a guy who championed mandated insurance. Partly because one or both of us would reenact that scene from Scanners

Scanners (1981) Head Explosion Shot