The $63K Question
The Congressional Budget Office says Sen. Edward Kennedy's oddly-named Affordable Health Choices Act will cost $1 trillion over 10 years (and that's only part of the bill)! Yet only about one-third of the uninsured (16 million people) would get insurance. That equals $62,500 for each newly insured individual – or $250,000 for a family of four. A decade from now, uninsured Americans would number about 36 million – a 20% decrease from what it is today.
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$63K Question: |
Why are we spending so much money |
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Because this is not about insuring the uninsured. It's about nationalizing the health care system. |
Kennedy is aiming for nationalized health care. Otherwise, why would he provide subsidies for families earning up to $110,000 per year? He is trying to create a new entitlement, that you are only bound to spend up to 10% of your income on health care. After that, the taxpayers will pick up the tab.
Devon, agree with your answer. This is all about control and the exercise of power. It’s not about insuring the uninsured.
This CBO result is truly amazing.
Ken, I think that if they want to execute their government take-over of health reform, the Kennedy clique and their ilk will first have to pass a law eliminating the CBO! If the Office keeps rolling out these devastating analyzes, this monstrosity will have trouble getting outside the Beltway bubble.
CBO! CBO! CBO! CBO! CBO!………
Yesterday, the Senate HELP Committee had to move their health reform markup to a different room – the Senate Caucus Room – which happens to be the same room where Senators held a series of hearings in 1912 examining the sinking of the Titanic. One can only hope the Kennedy bill will suffer the same fate…
Regardless of a person’s pactiilol persuasion, what you say here makes sense. It IS all about insurance. As someone who is also uninsured (can’t afford the Blue Cross private policy premiums anymore, plus the deductibles were killing us when we did have it), the only difference I see with this new bill is that now we will be forced to buy insurance or pay a horrendous fine (equivalent to the cost of the insurance) to Uncle Sam every year. Excuse me, HOW does that help me again?I think the legislators are in the pockets of the insurance lobbyists and I don’t think I see that changing any time soon.Bob and I have actually considered moving our business to somewhere like Ecuador to afford healthcare and be able to have a decent life. How’s that for the American dream? Whew. Maybe you just caught me on a bad day. Not sure. Thanks for starting this discussion, David.