Quoting something relevant before I complain about an auto insurance analogy.
And all I can see is that I'm paying $800/mo for inexpensive health insurance because I can't afford the comprehensive insurance at $1,200, but after this passes, I'm going to be charged $1,200 for what I already have, and if I can only afford $800 I might as well quit my job and go on the public system because it'll be better than what I can afford. And while some of that money will be going to people with legitimate health problems, most of it will really be going to people who make poor lifestyle choices.
For one thing, auto insurance costs no where near $800 a month unless you are the worst driver ever or have a shit ton of cars. You can choose to not have a car and not have to pay auto insurance. You can choose to not have a plan with all the frills if you can't afford it or don't feel you need it.
What the...? When did we change from the health care bill to talking about auto insurance? Where in my discussion have I mentioned auto insurance? I'm talking about health insurance.
If that was my auto bill then I'd be asking some pretty interesting questions about myself too...
But that is my health insurance bill, and under this program it would *have* to go up. Everyone is pretending that the health insurance costs will only go up for a small percentage of people, but the reality is that it's going to go up for everyone, though the costs are hidden by saying that it's only costing durable equipment makers, or health insurance companies, or, or, or...
Rather than a direct hit, it's an indirect hit, and it's still going to raise everyone's costs, especialy since the bill moves 500 billion in unfunded medicare costs from the medicare tax to the insurance industry, while not reducing medicare taxes every worker pays.
Again - who here has actually read the bill, rather than rely on pundits and politicians to "interpret" it for you?
And of those that have read the actual bill, who believes it is a *reasonable* way to get healthcare to the currently uninsured, and that our barely recovering economy can take another 1+ trillion hit without blinking?
