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issues that came up last night in last night s cnn debate, issues this had the making offing of a political fire storm, kids, sexually transmitted disease and government telling parents how they should protect their own children. the issue, of course is texas governor rick perry s 2007 executive order requiring girls to get vaccinated against human paploma virus, hpv, a virus that can cause cervical answer. that executive order never saw the light of day. perry signed it. two months later, the state legislature turned it over and it died on the vine. despite that fact in the debate michele bachmann tried to paint rick perry as someone who wanted innocent little girls to be held down by the arm of big government and forcibly stuck with needles in their arms. now, after the debate, she s even trying to raise fears that the hpv vaccine can cause mental retardation, something she s repeated on television at least twice already. that is, by all accounts, just flat-out wrong. ....
greta: judge hudson in virginia wasn t going to throw out the whole thing. that speaks to what we end up doing. if the mandate is pulled away then the entire bill collapses. the whole reason this health care thing works on paper, which i don t think it will work any way, they are forcing healthy people to buy health insurance to cross subsidize sicker people. why would a healthy young 24-year-old buy health insurance on their own if it is more expensive to buy health insurance than not having it? if you get insurance, if you are sick and buy insurance you don t pay any more. you can buy house insurance when your house is beginning to have smoke on go on fire. the problem with this kind of insurance system is, if you don t make everybody buy it, it didn t work. you will have sicker people in the pool dramatically increase the premiums. they call it death spiral. that s something that actuaries say the premiums ....
greta: judge hudson in virginia wasn t going to throw out the whole thing. that speaks to what we end up doing. if the mandate is pulled away then the entire bill collapses. the whole reason this health care thing works on paper, which i don t think it will work any way, they are forcing healthy people to buy health insurance to cross subsidize sicker people. why would a healthy young 24-year-old buy health insurance on their own if it is more expensive to buy health insurance than not having it? if you get insurance, if you are sick and buy insurance you don t pay any more. you can buy house insurance when your house is beginning to have smoke on go on fire. the problem with this kind of insurance system is, if you don t make everybody buy it, it didn t work. you will have sicker people in the pool dramatically increase the premiums. they call it death spiral. that s something that actuaries say the premiums ....