03-26-2010, 09:14 PM
Id love to see Thomas Jefferson's reation to Fox news :lol:
Anyway a little google goes a long way.
These charges are from government subsidies being taxed. The tax free subsidies are from 2003 legislation and the new bill kicks in 2013. Hardly a crisis they have 3yrs to adapt to conditions from 7 years ago.
I agree this bill is written for and by the drug and insurance companies. I worry about the personal cost to individuals. What cost controls prevent these insurance companies from gouging us. Will the exchange and mandatory insurance create enough competition? Is this just set up to fail so that the public option is more attractive?
The funny thing is the individual mandate and gov subsidies for insurance companies is a right wing think tank idea adopted by Hillary and later Obama as the only way to get reform.
I know a "progressive" source.
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Anyway a little google goes a long way.
These charges are from government subsidies being taxed. The tax free subsidies are from 2003 legislation and the new bill kicks in 2013. Hardly a crisis they have 3yrs to adapt to conditions from 7 years ago.
I agree this bill is written for and by the drug and insurance companies. I worry about the personal cost to individuals. What cost controls prevent these insurance companies from gouging us. Will the exchange and mandatory insurance create enough competition? Is this just set up to fail so that the public option is more attractive?
The funny thing is the individual mandate and gov subsidies for insurance companies is a right wing think tank idea adopted by Hillary and later Obama as the only way to get reform.
I know a "progressive" source.
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