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Old 12-30-2011, 07:52 AM   #173
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I'd be pretty pissed to be an american with Obamacare. Here's how its going to go down:

1) a bunch of people that don't have health insurance don't have it for a reason. So they will head to the government for a hand out. Or be told no.
2) everyone with insurance will pay more. Probably directly through increased premiums, and indirectly through increased taxes.
3) it creates another huge bureaucracy.
4) Some companies will be affected through increased costs while others have been abvle to opt out.
5) it leaves the insurance companies in the picture. And they are the problem. You cannot have a company that profits off of your bad health.

Plus some 50 more, but those are the big ones I gathered.

I don't know...in my mind you either do it or you don't. Universal health or not at all. Trying to work with a private sector insurance industry and make it universal-ish is a foolhardy endeavour.
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