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Originally Posted by Bob.Kerns

Hmph. First, let me state for the record you've just proven yourself a better man than O'Reilly -- not that I had any doubts.

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Whether there was, in the House bill, a possibility of jail, was never what was in dispute.

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Furthermore, what FOX has been claiming, is that you could go to jail FOR NOT BUYING INSURANCE. That is completely ridiculous. There was never, ever, such a provision OR implication. You'd go to jail for not paying your fine. You can go to jail for not paying a lot of things.

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First off, I have no desire to compete with O'Reilly or anyone else. And you are wrong, I am not a better man than him, and more than that, you have no possible way of making that assessment anyway...

You say there was never a dispute about Jail potential in the house bill, but there are only three of us posting on this thread at this time, and you and one other are blaming FOX news and the Republicans for everything from dawn to dusk that is wrong, and he was very clear to lie about the potential for jail not being written into the bill, which it was...

You are being disingenuous to say that the bill only required the purchase of insurance. That requirement would be enforced by a fine, but the fine would be called a tax, and if you did not participate at all, you could go to jail...

If the bill did not exist, then buying or not buying this insurance could never result in going to jail, but if it went on as it was written last fall, then it could result in going to jail... That means simply that it carried with it the potential for jail, even though you and another keep saying no...

The disingenuous statement includes saying that not buying insurance could not send you to jail... not paying anything will ever send you to jail, but starts a series of events in place that may send you to jail... It is not completely ridiculous, to fear going to jail for not participating, as that is now a potential since this bill, and was not a potential prior to it...

Thank you for responding to my question in post # 9.