Chairman, House Republican Policy Committee

elected to Michigan’s 11th congressional district in 2002. According to Wikipedia, this district has not elected a Democrat in 44 years.

I am embarrassed that I belong to the same party as this bonehead.

The poor don’t pay taxes. Yeah those lucky poor people, they don’t pay taxes. It’s a good thing they’re lucky too because if they were to get sick and need hospitalization, they’d be in debt for life -if they can get someone to treat them- because they have no health insurance. But hell yeah those shiftless bastards don’t deserve any better right? I got a friend in WV right now dying because she’s poor and made the mistake to get sick.
But HOORAY some fat cat wants a tax break for his frakkin’ pet’s veterinary bills! The USA sucks and I feel fortunate to have emmigrated when I did.

I don’t know.

I had an CAT done the same day in about ’95 and when my father had an MRI on his knee it was done maybe two days later in ’05.

Since moving to Indiana I had a nuclear imaging (gall bladder test) done that took about 10 days to arrange in ’04. And my ma-in-law had a nuclear imaging on her heart that took two days to schedule in a Chicago ‘burb hospital.

I much prefer the availability of services I had in Canada to what is available here. Most of that though is because we live in a very small community with limited services and physicians.

Personally, I think the month wait is just fud. I don’t know of anyone that waited that long for any test.

How are the rich hurt by a flat tax?

Mind you, the bills, thems a’ coming. And someone has to pay.

In the last decade, I’ve paid combined state and federal taxes in amounts that varied from ~$2,000 to $70,000 in a single year.

You and your fair tax brothers are either liers or too stoopid for words.

I would really like to see medical expenses reimbursed for individuals like it is for companies, too.

You would think that a politician from Michigan, of all places, would have more to worry about than this. But, maybe he lives in a predominately UAW district (they are keeping their pay and benefits, aren’t they?). And I hate bashing the union, but they seem to have Obama’s (winner of the what?) ear.

Term limits. Maybe just 6 months instead of 2 years.

12, So 20/20 is in the business of hit jobs because you just don’t happen to like one of their segments in which you’re somehow an authority on? BTW, Stossel is a Liberal turned Libertarian. LOL.

People who want the best medical treatment come to the U.S. Those who go outside the U.S. usually pursue cheap cosmetic surgeries or they’re wanting experimental surgeries that are not allowed in the U.S.

Life is not fair. Suck it up. No need to make things more unfair because you like to cry about it and use government as an instrument of force.

I’m asking, not judging because I want to know.

All are rescues except the dog.

Stossel is an idiot and so are you. It is easy to do a hit piece without any references and just edit the story the way you want. But most of what I saw was just plain wrong. Yet this is how the right wing answers, with lies and invented stories.

He complains that a couple of Canadians came to the US for treatment. He missed that 45,000 Americans will die this year because they can’t afford ANY treatment.

For example, Natasha Richardson initially refused medical treatment. Later she asked to be transported to a larger hospital and was, an hour away. Montreal has all the best neurological treatment that anyone can find anywhere in North America. McGill University is a world leader in neurological research and is affiliated with several hospitals.

What happened to Richardson happens several times every year in the US ski resorts.

The Shirley Healy example is also bogus. She wanted the surgery whether she needed it or not. It wasn’t needed. The intestines are fed by many arteries. Block a few of them and the rest will still function very well. Block too many and she wouldn’t be walking.

This is the typical reaction by the right wing. Animals matter more than people.

Corporations are legal constructs subject to whatever rules are made. Why not have the CEO and Shareholders limited to a multiple of the “average pay” of the employees? Don’t like that? Don’t go corporate.

But I have never met a “rich” person that worked for the money alone ((ie–I don’t know any financiers)). They all would do what they do regardless of the pay and are just happy to make money at it as well.

Something is “basically wrong” in a system that benefits one rich guy at the top when he lays off many poor people at the bottom.

Lots of changes could be made to “redistribute” the wealth of this country AT THE FRONT END making a flat tax make more sense.

What doesn’t make sense is a progressive tax with loop holes taking the progressivity away.