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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I'm neither for or against this bill, I don't know enough about the rammifications of it.
but when you suddenly start talking about subsidizing people for insurance costs then that money has to come from somewhere. Either they're going to have to cut from somewhere else (Defense, but its not bloodly likely to happen in the dollars that they need) or a tax increase will occur at some point, and I'm backing on that.
I think they have handed the Republican party some really damning campaign material, especially after the first person decides they'd rather go to prison then buy insurance. Or the first dirt farmer gets his fine in the mail.
I don't know if I agree with the significant increase in the polls for Obama. There will be some people that like it, some that think its an ineffective and half a$$ed policy and those that outright hate it.
I completely agree that the system in the states isn't great and needs to be overhauled. But this is a monitary bill more then anything else, it doesn't really address quality of care issues.
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If you think pushing this bill through was tough for Obama, wait until you see him propose an increase in taxes. It just isn't going to happen.
The Republicans backed the wrong horse here. If they had said "this is a horrible idea, and we have a better one," they would have made some hay with this issue. They didn't. They said "this is a horrible idea and we prefer the status quo, which nobody likes."
Now they get to run on the platform of a political battle that they lost where no-one was on their side anyway. Not a recipe for success--just ask the Democrats in 2004.