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   hanmari said, 11 months ago

   And it’s one heckuva big tax increase. In fact, it’s a regressive tax increase that hits lower income people the hardest. Cumulatively, it will be the biggest tax increase on the middle class in the history of mankind: 500 billion in increased taxes and another 500 billion in cuts to Medicare. Aren’t you glad your Congressional representatives all got together, colluded, and put together this terrible piece of legislation? Aren’t you glad you voted Obama into office? Won’t you be even gladder when you vote the bums out and vote in representatives that will overturn this atrocity? Vote tea party!
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   NebulousRikulau said, 11 months ago

   The GOP got all of the changes they insisted on.
   And now they’re being sore winners. Boo hoo!
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   dtroutma said, 11 months ago

   Hanmari, for most folks, under a couple hundred bucks a year, at most. Of course, the bill also has no teeth for collecting it, so no biggie. Now actually being able to GET insurance, and saving your life if you get sick, well, I guess that is just a waste in some cases.
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   Litho stone said, 11 months ago

   @NebulousRikulau

   At least the Whaa!bulance will be covered.
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   cdward said, 11 months ago

   @hanmari

   I only want representatives who will finish the job and give us single payer – then it wouldn’t be regressive at all. Of course, having lived in a red state, I know that regressive taxes are the only kind they like. Besides, this doesn’t affect most Americans and actually saves money for the majority of the rest.
   But it would be much better if the GOP hadn’t ham-stringed it.
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   mikefive said, 11 months ago

   @dtroutma

   I read that part of the bill on the penalty and wondered about them putting in a penalty and then saying you can’t enforce the penalty. The only thing I can figure is that if they hadn’t put that in there the IRS would make up their own penalty and enforce it.
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   Harleyquinn said, 11 months ago

   next up? Obama using the religion of man bad global warming to “not tax” us into carbon credits.
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   fredgold said, 11 months ago

   @Harleyquinn

   Huh?
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   Ms. Ima said, 11 months ago

   Soon, so very soon, we shall see the evil in it. Carbon credit taxes are built into it. Penalties for putting a ‘made in America’ tag on something. Fines for not buying insurance. Denial of benefits for having an extra pound or two. The taxation of America has begun.
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    SpicyNacho said, 11 months ago

    @cdward

    So now there will be less money in the pool because more people will be dropping their insurance (because there are no teeth in the penalty) and more people will be getting care, and doctors will be dropping out of practice and this is such a good thing.

    There were much better solutions to the problems at hand, but Democrats wanted power.
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    dahawk said, 11 months ago

    The Republicans have proposed the simplest and most effective solution. The most important of these are no denial because of pre-existing conditions, no cap on benefits, and most important of all – allowing insurance companies to compete for business in any state as is presently done with automobile insurance.

    Competition lowers prices every time and weeds out the inefficient companies.
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    dtroutma said, 11 months ago

    The “gas wars” of my youth weren’t about “competition” they were about the “majors” driving the “independents” into bankruptcy, to establish their monopolies. That is EXACTLY the biggest “problem” with ACA, it sets mandatory customers on the hook, to be scooped up for “the majors”, exactly what Republicans, and yes, some Democrats, wanted for their “benefactors” in the insurance industry. Just as “no bargaining” in Medicare Part D is absurd, and COSTLY, so is the avoidance of “single payer” with a degree of regulation to keep costs down.

    
    “Competition reduces prices” is the greatest myth of “capitalism” in America, because monopolies HAVE won out, but there’s not T.R. to bust them this time around.
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    indieme said, 11 months ago

    Medicare for all. The Reeps had years under Bush the Nincompoop to do something and they did NOTHING.
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    wbr said, 11 months ago

    medicare going bankrupt as is ²⁰²⁰ will be replaced by solyent green
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    rightisright said, 11 months ago

    Oh, so now it’s a tax increase. That coincides beautifully with Lord Ears hiring 19,000 new IRS agents (everyone’s favorite government employees!)
    
    Half the country is too ignorant to understand this, but if you value your income and freedom, never never never elect any democrat!
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