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On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:53:18 -0400, hk
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My big problem with this legislation is it doesn't limit insurance
premiums at all and I bet your "october surprise" will be what the
2011 rates are going to be for those 300 million that do have
insurance.
That will be what drives the election.

Premium controls will be added. In fact, I suspect a number of items
will individually be added. It'll be interesting to see the Republicans
vote down all the individual measures to help Americans obtain and
retain insurance at good prices.

I don't think anyone actually trusts congress to do all the things
they promise. After all the process is actually driven by billion
dollar lobbyists.
That is why thinking people dismiss all of those CBO projections. They
are based on fantasy scenarios that are unlikely to happen, like
cutting a half trillion out of Medicare.
Bear in mind, Medicare ended up costing almost 10 times what the
original CBO estimate had it at, out at the 10 year mark. Government
programs always get bigger, not smaller.


Yet, the corporations are legally allowed to pump as much money into the
system as they want.

The CBO is non-partisan and both sides of the isle refer to it.

Medicare is fixable, and it's been amended several times. Republicans called
that program communism also, but I don't see too many of the Teabaggers
willing to give up the benefits.

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