By mandating that everyone have coverage...

Are you talking about the MA State RomneyCare, or some "plan" about what they would replace ObamaCare with?

And the flu shots AND lab tests are all free with Group Health...

My 3 days in the hospital with a perforated colon was $20 copay.

So you have no problem with red light cameras imaging you when you run a red light?

Please quote the federal law that requires US citizens to carry a national ID...

You missed the point about it being paid for those who can't afford it.

The ONLY ones who would pay a "tax" would be those who can afford to pay by refuse to do so.

'So insurance companies refusing to treat peope for whatever trumped up reason are not "death panels"?'

Nope - when it's businesses doing it, it's just a "business decision"...

And please, tell us how much better off he would be under the Romney Care plan...assuming you can FIND one!

And please, don't post the link someone else did last week - tat showed 4 points on the Romney "plan".

It had two points that are already in the existing law, and one that would protect bad doctors by lowering their liability insurance costs...

Face it, Romney's "plan" is to get rid of ObamaCare - and THEN start thinking what he can do differently!

In other words:

Romney

HAS

NO

PLAN!

"Why our we sending Americas food overseas now anyway, knowing we the people will need this food for U.S"

Did you miss that lesson in capitalism? The one that shows the supply goes where the most money is? And according to all the libertarians, China has more money than we do...

Illustrated by the statements of so many wingers here that they see no need for health insurance - because they still have a pulse... ?

So, I gather that you don't expect Congress to work on drought relief bailouts, at least for regular farmers?

No, Fleas...I am not "kidding". You might want to look at the geological record to see what it can really be like here...

"The Castor Lake record also corroborates the notion that the 20th century, prior to recent aridity, was a relatively wet period compared to the last 6,000 yr. Our findings suggest that the hydroclimate response in the Pacific Northwest to future warming will be intimately tied to the impact of warming on the El Niño Southern Oscillation.

Recent droughts that affected the American west were among the most severe on record (1–3). This aridity, combined with rapid population growth and limited water resources, provides the impetus to improve our understanding of long-term moisture balance to better predict and plan for future droughts and wet periods. Evidence suggests that drought in North America is strongly influenced by synoptic-scale changes in atmosphere-ocean dynamics (4), with El Niño events associated with drier conditions in the northwest and La Niña conditions being conducive to drought in much of the arid southwest (2). Documenting decadal-scale aridity patterns over several millennia will improve knowledge of drought frequency, duration, and magnitude, and improve our understanding of how these characteristics respond to long-term changes in the influential Pacific climate patterns, such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). "...

And further on (I've underlined the really important finding for you):

"The transition to lower frequency and longer duration wet/dry cycles that occurred in the last millennium is coincident with increased drought magnitude between 900 and 1300 A.D. (1,050 and 650 B.P.), as suggested by tree-ring indicators of drought across the large area of the American west (1). This increased drought severity may have resulted from prolonged moisture balance excursions away from mean state values, which provide more time for cumulative effects to build (e.g., successive years with lower than average precipitation totals). Comparison of instrumental-period stable isotope data with the full sediment sequence highlights the middle and late 20th century wet phase as one of the more extreme events of the past 6,000-yr (Fig. 2). Overall, the 6,000-yr grayscale record shows that droughts on average are more likely to last longer than wet periods (Fig. S5). For example, over the last 6,000 yr, 25% of droughts, compared to 19% of wet periods, last longer than 30 yr. "
http://www.pnas.org/content/108/10/3870.full