Utah State Democratic Party

What is with you people that are against healthcare for everyone?Bryan do you have insurance?Constitutional problems,are you kidding me,i guess you were ok giving billions to wall street,but god forbide helping non rich.Its selfish people like you that people go bankrupt trying to pay gigantic medical bills,how do you and republicans sleep at night?I hope you lose your insurance,and your job.Then maybe you'll see what its like.

How much of my tax money is going to be wasted on this lawsuit? U-Duh spent five years defending their stoopid liquor laws (we never did get full disclosure on how much money was pissed away on that). Shurtleff and Chaffetz need to lose their publicly-funded healthcare.

Paul Rolly=only sane journalist in Utah and my hero!

Hey Chaffetz,you promised to do something about illegal aliens flooding our country unchecked,i guess you are just the typical politician,say anything ,promise anything to get elected,then renege on everything .However i agree with him on the body scanning.

Lola, I heard people say they were voting for Chaffetz because he played football for YBU, and that was their primary reason for voting for him; the immigration issue came second. You can't hear yourself think in UT county over the sound of sheep bleating.

It's not clear you understand either point. I didn't say that all taxes and services are immoral. I said that it is immoral when you force one group to pay for health care services for another group.

Would you object if someone came up to your door and demanded some money at the point of a gun? Does this objection go away if the thief hires someone else to do it (e.g., IRS)?

There's no such thing as an unalienable right that requires someone else's property to be forcibly taken. Charity should always be voluntary.... See More

On the 2nd point, subsidizing an industry as the legislation does causes prices to rise because it makes the consumer less sensitive to price increases. As cost is removed from the consumer's thinking, the producer will keep increasing the cost.

Gov't is not an armed robber. We all have a civic duty to participate in its decisions. We do not have to agree with the decision, but we are expected to abide by it until overturned or anarchy reigns.

It is understandable that you see healthcare as a consumer activity and therefore that accepting what was not purchased is charity and not a proper subject for gov't interference.

But for many -- maybe most -- healthcare is not a consumer activity. Those under duress or insensate cannot make appropriate consumer decisions. Information about cost is not available even from the provider (doctors rarely know what the billing department is up to). What services are necessary for approrpiate treatment are not known to the "consumer" but only to the provider. And, finally, disease can be communicated to the rest of the community making the personal a public concern.... See More

Private payment is rare. We long ago decided to utilize insurance mechanisms to spread the costs/risk to a community pool. The operation of those mechanisms has broken. The reforms are meant to repair those and restore a true insurance product where we agree to a small loss in order to prevent a catastrophic loss by spreading the risk.

LoL! Republicans are funny...

John Swallow needs to swallow, and accept the election results.

Good GRIEF - immigration officials posing as mormon missionaries? There are sooooooo many things wrong with that sentence - I dunno where to start!

Boy howdy Gradi.

Wha-Wha-Wha - why is it that is ALL Utah Republicans seem to do? Bitch and Moan...How about some action??

Cut education. Keep the sheeple ignorant and allowing you to think for them.

We have some of the worse air in the country,Shame on Utah !

Election year hoo-ha.

So true Lynne!

That's an award that really matters!