I personally think this is a travesty for America. There are more and better ways to provide coverage for a greater percentage of Americans, but the Dems won't hear it and the GOP is too lame to take on the progressive left with any real backbone. Forcing everyone who can to pay or in one way or another is bull****. Why does the Federal Government need to dictate to me what type of medical coverage is sufficient for me? And to top that off, why should I be made to pay a tax (penalty) for not having what Congress and Obama say is proper coverage?
You do realize that at most, 96% will be covered by this glorious plan, don't you? Oh, but Obama is telling us that EVERYONE will be covered. Did you know that the uncovered are actually accounted for and this number must to be at a certain level for this plan to be "successful"? What kind of crap is that?
You say that 96% is better than 83%? Sure, sounds good on paper, but wait until the bills roll in. More jobs will be lost as employees and individuals cannot afford this coverage but will pay for it anyway out of fear of being penalized by our Government. And what about the slow rate of payout like we see in Medicare? This control should be delegated to the States, where we see state run Medicaid programs pay as expediently as many private insurance companies. You do realize that slower payments overall hurt the caregivers we depend on and put many out of business or drive them out due to sheer frustration over trying to make a living and trying to do what is right as a caregiver. O hope you realize that many low cost clinics and offices run on a shoestring budget already and this legislation, if passed, could run many of those out of business, which ends up with only the "big" boys playing the game, as it were.