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After reading the above, anyone with math skills can determine that the required additional cost to the insurance companies will force a precipitiously large increase in health care insurance rates or if the rates are capped and insurance companies cannot raise the rates, it will put them out of business. So what then, we all move to a public option—this seems like the plan in the first place.

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The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on Roe v. Wade seems to apply to the current debate on health care—the right to privacy. In that ruling, the Supreme Court established what is said to be “settled law” that a right to privacy is found in the constitution, even though not specifically stated.

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Here is the $64 question! Where does the federal government derive its authority to dictate how an American obtains health insurance and where he or she obtains health insurance? What part of the supreme law of the land, the Constitution, provides the federal government the right to make these decisions and interfere with the lives of its citizens’ freedom of choice for health care management?

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Let’s for a moment put party labels aside. The Republicans, Libertarians, independents, and the Democrats are no more, for the sake of this post. Let’s look at politicians and advocates only as proponents of public sector or the private sector. The proponents of public sector support the government’s caretaking of its people, either through public or co-op option medical care, providing money for car purchases, subsidizing power generation, and so on and so on—spending everywhere. The private sector proponents seek growth of industry and economies, healthier paychecks for all, faith based options for caretaking, and wealth generation for reinvestment into greater wealth generation for all.

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