Absolutely not true...Americans would love the "gold" dollars if 1) they knew they existed and 2) if they could ever find a single one in circulation. I have 1 Washington Dollar coin that someone used at my register [I took a dollar bill out of my wallet and kept the coin] 5 years ago. Since then, I have not seen a single dollar coin in circulation. My dad has said that he even went to several banks asking about them and none of them had any, some even saying they'd never even heard of them. Until this article, I had assumed the late night infomercial folks had simply bought them all up to sell at inflated "never circulated" prices. Now it appears the real reason is that the banks simply assumed no one would want them and refused to take them, meaning they never made it into circulation in the first place.

Then, with the unemployment rate still high and it seems that it may never come down for lack of new additional jobs, what and how do these unemployed people pay for their health care? Do the rest of us pay for them, or do they even have to pay for health care?

Then, as is with anything that can be provided for by the nanny Federal government, for one to believe that the costs for health services and drugs will not continue to rise requires a "suspension of disbelief". When that happens, how will that affect the premiums we will be mandated to pay?

P.S. The ECONOMY is in the toilet and the numbers are cooked as always but 4 MILLION FORECLOSURES in the pipeline--hmmm--he knows and has to try to use TAXPAYER MONEY to bail out the people who still never should have been in homes along with those who did fall on bad times thanks to the ummm ECONOMY!

Few people even know the dollar coins exist.

Dollar coin mistakes are valuable. Buying dollars from the bank is the only game of chance that you never lose.

Takes 5 dollar coins to equal 1 ounce in weight. Most people carry very few dollars at any given time. Weight is not a problem for consumers.

"There's a lot to like about $1 coins. They are more durable than paper money, and they're easier and cheaper to handle".

I move money for a living. Dollar coins are not popular, and are not easier to handle, move, store than paper dollars. Dollar coins obviously are more durable. Yet they weigh more and require more space. Who would want to carry ten dollar coins in their pants rather a $10 bill in the wallet? A hundred? I find the statement naive. Try transporting a million dollars in coin or a few bags of miilion cash. The Gov't wasted tax payer money again.

Markets are up fractionally over the last 365-days. Whoever is calling this a "bull market" apparently forgot what we went through in August-September 2011.

I call "bull" on their claim of a bull market. We're only back to even for the most part.

LOL... ain't gonna happen.

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Fact is, we pay alot per month for healthcare premiums even though we don't use it much. Our insurance premiums went up over one hundred dollars a month this year for the same plan except with a higher deductable. Government spends all this money up front on people without insurance and middle class have nothing to show for it. Many places are raising their rates at alarming rates and we need relief now in the way of cost without lessening of the benefits at least too much. If the middle class aren't seeing any direct relief then what good is this expensive mistake of a plan.

That logic, Jay, is the United States Constitution. It contains something called the Commerce Clause, which is the keystone of federal regulatory power. Unfortunately, that clause doesn't confer power upon the government to coerce citizens to perform some affirmative action, that is, to purchase a commodity or service.

Asking the Justices to consider all "the good" the Affordable Care Act will do further displays your ignorance. If you knew anything about United States governance, you would know that the Supreme Court's only role is "to say what the law is." They do not, and will not, consider the social benefits of universal healthcare. Instead, their job is to analyze whether the affirmative obligations placed upon Americans by the Act comports with our national Rule of Law.

Learn how the government works and stop writing ignorant, logic-less articles.

I have been meaning to pull out my mortgage documents to see if I am at my cap minimum because I must be being that my Mortgage has been stuck at 6% for the past 3 years. I understand I'm a little better off, but it sucks that I have excellent credit and decent income BUT can't take advantage of the lower rates (or stop my rate from increasing when/if the market does begin to improve) simply becuase the bottom dropped out of the market. I feel like I've been living in fear of my interest rate increasing for 3 years. Should I have to pay an increased payment just because I can afford it according to the banks? I'm attempting to do the right thing and pay down student loan debt and what not, but if my payment increases, thats less I can put towards those. I would be content if my bank would just lock me in at the 6% that I'm currently at that way I can plan accordingly in the future but that is apparently too much to ask. So in turn, this Obama plan would be my only salvation, but I don't think it will ever pass.

The lone exception was THIS policy renewal period (the first after the implementation of "Obamacare")... when our premiums went up...0.02% (by just $4) - because the insurance companies now have to justify and explain spending more than 20% of premium income on management and overhead (salary and bonus) expenses.

All of the other increases - which turned health insurance into our highest fixed monthly expense - hit us BEFORE even the threat of health care / health insurance reform had been spoken. Our premiums are still too high - but they only went up, Up, UP under the `free market'... so I'm all in favor of the `heavy hand of government' keeping a lid on things.

If the Supreme Court upholds it: enjoy the death panels!

I remember the Balanced Budget Act of 1998. Seniors were denied medical care for two years before the government backed down and reversed many of the cutbacks. I remember elderly women crying because no one would take care of their broken legs.

How does it benefit Christians in general and Catholics in particular, whose FREEDOM OF RELIGION is being taken away by Obamacare?!!!

NOTHING is more important than our FREEDOMS, mainly our FREEDOM OF RELIGION!

IMPEACH Obama!

AT&T, AK Steel, Caterpillar, Deere, Valero Energy and several other large companies reported that the Obamacare scam will cost them billions.

Additionally, 6 million small businesses also believe Obamacare will increase costs. Only 12% of those businesses may receive some type of help.

And as most of those businesses were already hurting, many will be forced to reduce salaries, let people go, close or move to FREER countries.

As a result, more Americans are going to become unemployed. And the few lucky enough to have a job will become poor after paying for everyone else.

That’s what happens in every commie country, as the country Obama and his comrades are trying to create in the U.S. with “help-the-poor” scams like Obamacare.

IMPEACH Obama!

By adding millions of government workers to run Obamacare, the Obamacare scam will MULTIPLY healthcare costs!

The TRILLION-DOLLAR Obamacare scam is destroying our economy, our FREEDOMS (including our FREEDOM OF RELIGION), and our country!

IMPEACH Obama!

Now, to avoid any appearance of impropriety, many Physicians won't bother meeting with drug rep.s. Maybe they'll eventually run across a journal article if they have time & energy left over.

Cutting off a source of Physician education in light of the huge amount of ever growing medical info. out there is a very bad idea.

Richard.

BTW... Gov't has No place in healthcare. AMA sold us out!

"EXCEPTIONS- The term ‘specified transaction’ shall not include--(A) any transfer between accounts of the taxpayer, and (B) any deposit into a personal account of an individual."

This proposal isn't even going to be voted on, let alone passed. That is a FACT.

The problem isn't that Americans hate them. The problem is that retailers hate them. They don't like hauling them to the repository at night. The dollar coins make the bags too heavy. I had one retailer who was so annoyed he gave me a 50 cent piece (guess who is on that) as change once with a "oh, well, here, take that." and no smile.

In all the years and hundreds of dollars I used, I never got one back, not once. The retailers were of a single mind to take them out of circulation. It's too bad.