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2007 Senate Bill 278 (Establish universal health insurance-type system )

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1) And while we're at it ... [by Jennybegone on January 26, 2008]
How about you and your legislature doing much more to try to bring real jobs back to Michigan, and help create a diversified economy that isn't so dependent on one industry.

Can you do that, moleface, so we can have a brighter future so we don't have to go on Medicaid or made to feel like some kind of welfare trash?
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2) Amen [by Jennybegone on January 26, 2008]
We need jobs, and price controls in the health care system. The reason private insurance keeps going up is because the cost of medicine and medical equipment keeps going up. Why is it so much more expensive in the US than in other countries such as Canada for prescription drugs and other treatments? You see, the cost of medical care is what needs to be reigned in. The whole health care bureaucracy is bloated way out of control. The industry itself should be blamed for this, and like oil companies, should be subject to some kind of windfall profits tax, with the proceeds for that going to help finance health insurance for those who may otherwise not get it. This is not socialization, but an effort to wake up the health care industry to the need to either keep their costs down, or start having to pay this sort of tax.

I know it is a new tax, and many people won't like it, but some taxes are necessary, and when there is a windfall, it should be subject to a tax. What I'm proposing is a way for funding to be available so people can get their insurance without having to necessarily resort to Medicaid. This is meant to be a way to help people who may otherwise not have private insurance to be able to get it.
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3) Cynical dishonesty of Michigan Health Care Security Campaign [by Anonymous Citizen on January 20, 2008]
Contrast it's cynically tactical use of dishonest weasel-words like "affordable," "comprehensive" and "cost control" with this "Medical Choice for Arizona" initiative language:

"The right of citizens to enter into private contracts with health care providers for health care services shall not be infringed. No law shall be enacted requiring any citizen, or any class of citizens, to participate in any state sponsored health care system or plan."

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