It's not the beginning of anything.  There is nothing in this bill that facilitates the introduction of Medicare for all into our health care finance system.  The exchanges will be controlled by insurance companies that will offer their best -- and healthiest -- customers their best and lowest-cost plans outside of the exchanges.  Meanwhile, they'll continue to jack up the rates for the policies that they sell in the exchanges, knowing that since people are required to buy health insurance even if they're already choosing between paying the rent or buying groceries, that they'll get new customers.  And the taxpayers will be on the hook, too, even though the subsidies provided in the bill are not nearly large enough to cover the need.

This bill makes things tremendously worse, and will assure that our national and individual health care costs will continue to spiral up even faster than before.

Personally, I'm just going to pay the fine every year.  I will not give one dime to a company that profits from denying me health care services.

by EveningStarNM on 03/18/2010 01:25:49 AM EST

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