Swing Votes

Um, retirees are no longer employees. AIUI, this write-down was for retirees part-D drug coverage, so they're covered under Medicare anyway.

Is Alabama far enough South for you, dimwit?

For being in Alabama, you sure seem to have the stereotypical southern redneck attitude. Thanks for making everybody else in the south look bad. Maybe some day you will figure out that its not 1966 anymore.

have a nice life

Oh, I thought you were switching to talking about current employees, where dumping health insurance entirely starts to make sense too.

The Senate bill has a big spiel about how health insurance is commerce, they have Constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce, and if you don't buy insurance you're hurting suppliers in other states, therefore they can forcibly require you to engage in commerce. (Subtitle F, Sec. 1501(a)(1-2), pg. 320)

Here's my parallel theory: we all use toilet paper, toilet paper crosses state lines, and the people who don't buy their own are driving up the price for the rest of us--we're all paying for THEM. So, we need toilet paper insurance. Mandatory, of course.

It was for retirees getting drug coverage from their AT&T retirement instead of being foisted on the public Part-D dole. A grateful Medicare Part-D was kicking in a 28% share--better than paying 100%.

Obamacare eliminates that incentive.

-- Cheers, James Arthur

It's amazing - they force individuals in states to buy a product in their state, from a private company in that state, seeing as the individual CAN NOT, by law, purchase it outside of the state ( by law they can not ! ), and call it 'intra-state commerce'.

If this stands, the Commerce Clause becomes a nullity, a bad joke, instead of a restraint on the Federal government.

No, the AT&T write-down is about retirees' drug benefits, AFAICT.

Right. IMO, most companies will just dump that coverage and ObamaCare will have to pay the whole tab.

The Constitution is null, according to *EVERY* Demonicrats.