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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I had read somewhere that it wasn't thanks for the correction.
If anything it will piss the people of Maryland off when their taxes increase.
There's always a cost, just because its under the surface doesn't mean that its not there.
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It's no secret that I don't love this bill--but as Obama would say, "let's be clear."
There is no specific tax increase tied to this bill. People keep saying that this bill raises taxes, and it just isn't true.
People currently uninsured will have to buy health insurance, but that isn't quite the same thing. People who are poor will be eligible for a subsidized program that offers better care than they can now receive at a lower cost.
The only people who
don't benefit are middle-class people who don't have health insurance because they have some blinkered notion that they don't need it. Well, them and the government, which is footing a large portion of the bill here.
The big problem here is that it does nothing to curtail the health-care-industry's inflationary billing practices, and nothing to curtail rising health care costs. But again--let's be clear. This bill doesn't solve that problem, but it also didn't produce it. If anything, the problem would have been worse if the government had done nothing.
And--bizarrely--that was the Republicans' stance all along: don't do this--
do nothing instead. I think history will show that they squandered a huge opportunity to develop a positive vision for governance in the U.S. by hitching their wagon to the status quo, which everyone agrees is broken.
I'm guessing we see a significant bump in the polls for Obama after the dust settles, but only time will tell.