Intrepid
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3-Sep-2007
8:08 AM
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I think that required checkups are a bad idea. It reeks of paternalistic socialism! I don't want my government mandating what is best for me. When, and if, I get a checkup should be a choice left to me and my doctor. What's next? Mandatory drug testing? Mandatory treatments? It's just another example of politicians telling us that they're smarter than us. They think we're too stupid and uneducated to manage our own lives. I say just give us the health coverage and let us decide how to use it.
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Windcatcher
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3-Sep-2007
8:46 AM
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If our government can find some way to insure health insurance coverage for all US citizens everyone would be able to have regular check ups without it being mandated. How do they plan to pay for everyone to have regular check ups if they cannot figure out how to furnish health insurance coverage for everyone.
If John Edwards thinks that he can MAKE everyone have a regular check up, my question is how does he plan to enforce this? Is he going to assisgn police officer to go around checking every individual person to see if they have had their check up and and is everyone going to have to carry some type of ID CARD to prove that they have had their check up? What will then happen if you haven't had your check up--will you be issued a fine or taken to jail?
If our government can mandate this action what else will they try to mandate? How much more of our lives are WE THE PEOPLE going to allow our government to mandate?
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Maureen S
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3-Sep-2007
12:19 PM
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When it comes to the government dictating to the People, I don't like mandatory anything! Regardless how benign their motives, sooner or later so-called benign actions are used for maleavolent purposes. The goernment already far exceeds its Constitutional authority, and I'm against giving them any more power -- in ANY area.
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Inspogd
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4-Sep-2007
9:06 PM
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The main part of the poll is the way to find funding for the required exams. That way they can possibly reduce the cost to the government of health problems that could be prevented down the road. Also, they could do mandatory drug testing for those drawing government checks, which if workers are required to agree to this (drug testing), so should the ones that live off the taxes that the workers pay.
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Intrepid
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6-Sep-2007
1:50 AM
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The idea of having all recipients of government benefits, Social Security, disability, welfare, and so on, drug tested has actually been talked about in congress. The idea was that those who test positive would lose their benefits. What I notice is that this puts people who live in the 12 states that have approved the medical use of marijuana at risk of losing their income and their insurance! The whole idea of "mandatory" anything worries me. {I}
Last Edited on 7-Sep-2007 2:04 AM
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Linda in Long Grove
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6-Sep-2007
12:07 PM
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Mandatory check-ups sounds, at first, like a fairly good idea as part of national health care. But it takes only a moment's reflection to see it going to mandatory treatment patterns, etc., and not too long before we'd be back to the mandatory sterilization programs that were going on in the 30s and 40s. The government wants to be in my wallet, my checkbook, my bedroom, my refrigerator, my shopping cart and my doctor's office, That's not enough already ... it's way too much and has been for a long time. It's time for the government to back off.
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