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Originally Posted by Honu
What I dont get is, I AM the middle class, you know the one's who pay their taxes and pave the roads. Im all for helping the poor and people truly in need the one's that cant help themselves but dont we already have programs in place for that. Ah dunno just seems like alot of build up to nothing, for me anyway. I guess we will see what happens, I just have a hard time believing the insurance companies are going to take it up the cornholio.
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yeah...but you're in the same pickle i'm in. i don't get why they did so much of this, as i've said in the past-states already have programs for people who have pre-existing conditions to get insurance.
they should have just done single payer, i'll say that til i die i guess. this new system will bankrupt the federal govt, which is already on a bad path with spending and the budget, the debt and deficit. and because the feds, unlike everyone else, don't have to include pension funding in their 'budgets' the real deficit is much, much higher than what they officially state. amazing.
but they ignore what economists and the cbl have been recommending, and focus on health care instead-and then produce a cobbled together mish mash that keeps health companies, the ultimate evil-yet something everyone should join?-medicare (look at the savings!) medicaid (ignore the funding, it is going to be higher than the medicare savings!) and adds subsidies for people to buy insurance(if they had single payer, there would be no insurance companies-what would that save???)...which we all know where that funding will come from for the subsidies. for the huge expansion of medicaid(if states sign up for it). but magically, this program won't cost any more than what we have now.
right. sure. in what world do you expand spending, but it costs no more?