Five years in Federal prison if your health insurance doesn’t pass muster with the Botox Queen.
I can just hear the conversation among new fish:
“Hey, Butch. Whaddaya in for?”
“Running a meth ring across state lines.”
“Hey, Leroy. Whaddaya in for?”
“I didn’t do it. The racist justice system fucked me over.”
“Hey, Cornelius. Whaddaya in for?”
“Not having a good enough health care plan.”
At that point, Cornelius can count the last few remaining moments of his asshole staying intact.
Methinks the Democrats have already lost the House in 2010. Imagine the fodder this will serve for GOP candidates’ TV ads. Imagery of a Federal prison (and the implications for one’s asshole therein) will sway a lot of votes!
UPDATE 11/10: President Obama de facto agrees with pounding your ass in Federal prison for five years. To his credit, ABC’s Jake Tapper pressed him multiple times on the issue. That the President couldn’t oppose that line item in the HCR bill tells me that he agrees. The President tried to equate mandatory health insurance with mandatory car insurance, but they’re not samey same — You have to get car insurance because (1) You want to operate a motorized vehicle on public roads, which is a privilege, (whereas there is a right to travel, just not with motorized vehicles in public roads), and (2) The only insurance you’re required to have is liability, which means protecting others financially when you cause an accident. Note that government mandates for liability car insurance has driven up the cost of liability only policies in the years since states started making you be insured, and the same will happen with health insurance with the Obama/Pelosi bill. I’m for liability car insurance mandates, but I think we should consider the Australian model, where you pay something like AUS $1,000 to register the car for a year, but that includes liability through a state-run insurance bureaucracy. In other words, the car doesn’t get a license plate unless it gets liability insurance attached with it, and the insurance follows the car, not the driver. From what I have been told (BTW, how ya doin, Brad? Long time no talk), there is no age/gender actuarial variability in rates, but if you’ve caused accidents before, you will pay more to register a car. It keeps liability cheap. If you want any car insurance beyond liability, then you buy it privately.
