Obama just raised the projected 10 year deficit to 9.1 trillion. That's a number most economists have been predicting for months. Until now the administration has been denying it would be so high.
This figure does not include any costs associated with providing a government program that would include insurance coverage for the 45 million uninsured Americans and illegals. Yes I know some Democrats are saying they are not proposing covering illegals but, 12 million of that 45 million uninsured are illegals so until they revised their figures(for the uninsured) one should include them. Perhaps the plan is to give them citizenship and then cover them right after. In any cased most insured Americans don't believe that you can cover 45 million more people without 1 or 2 things happening: Taxes being raised and/or services being reduced. Nothing in Obama's proposal would change that reality. Seniors are worried about a decline in services that they worked their lives believing they would receive. The working class fears losing even more of their earnings to pay for the government inclusive system. Most already anticipate tax increases to pay for the deficit already in the pipe line.
Sure many of the specific fears people are expressing aren't a lock to happen but, something will have to give. In the real world someone has to pay. The government doesn't give away anything they pulled out of a magical sack. They give what they have taken. Many of the 250 million Americans with health insurance are starting to fear they are going to be on the wrong end of the government's generosity.
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