Impeding changes to our Health Care system

Happy Monkey · 07-22-2010, 06:44 PM

Eliminating preexisting conditions requires the mandate. The mandate requires subsidies. My guess is that takes up quite a few of those 3000 pages. All whinging I've heard about the plan is either
a) About the mandate or the cost of subsidies, which are required.
b) Far outweighed by the elimination of preexisting conditions.
or c) that the plan doesn't go far enough, with which I and most Democrats agree. If there had been any non-tool Republicans to offset the tools among the Democrats, maybe we could have done something about that. Hopefully some time in the future, we will. But that's an argument for doing more, not an argument against doing what was done.

07-22-2010, 06:44 PM	#11
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	Eliminating preexisting conditions requires the mandate. The mandate requires subsidies. My guess is that takes up quite a few of those 3000 pages. All whinging I've heard about the plan is either a) About the mandate or the cost of subsidies, which are required. b) Far outweighed by the elimination of preexisting conditions. or c) that the plan doesn't go far enough, with which I and most Democrats agree. If there had been any non-tool Republicans to offset the tools among the Democrats, maybe we could have done something about that. Hopefully some time in the future, we will. But that's an argument for doing more, not an argument against doing what was done. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

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