POLITICO – The Senate Finance Committee filed its sweeping health care reform bill Monday and its release served largely to highlight the divisions among Democrats over the direction of reform.
The massive, 1,500 page bill is expected to serve as the backbone for Democratic reform efforts going forward and five senators expressed concerns about one of its main provisions, a 40 percent tax on high-end insurance plans.
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Actually HR2454 (ACES) is 1400 pages. 800 of which were changed by the House, and barely discussed. Again, what’s the damn rush?! It doesn’t apply until 2012.
chris #13.
Yea, I messed up the post. Meant to say 2 minutes 52 seconds a page.
Got in a hurry. oops.
Haha Ben’s right. This so-called blog is bunk. Just a bunch of nerds who post their useless opinions. Snoogins!
This is all unsustainable…we are bankrupt…our credit cards are in the process of being denied…
It is said Harry Reid will submit the “Government Option” by attaching it to a unrelated bill that must get passed, to subvert the democratic process…
So the Baucus bill isn’t that relevant…the Frankenstein they create in the back room, is it.
FYI- injuries sustained lifting copies of said bill are considered pre-existing conditions.
Now that the edge of the cliff is in sight, I must question the so-called enlightened among us. Why are you blinded by good intentions and fail to recognize the destructive consequences that will come from this fake health care bill?
What is so hard to understand that a nation already in debt for trillions can’t provide a massive socialist program for all citizens and illegal aliens?
It’s time to wake up and realize this is just another promise that Obama has on intention of keeping in his quest for total control.
…in his quest for total control.
You need another layer on that tinfoil hat.
I imagine it will double over 3000 pages before its over. Do we really think Congress can get this right? This has to be the worst time in history for government to expand. I am in total understanding about how everyone needs health care. But allowing our government considering their track record to solve it is just wrong. I still wonder how we are going to reduce health care for individuals enough if they cannot or will not buy it now? If it was that easy I think this would have been done a long time ago. Obama (Robin Hood) is looking more like robbing from one to pay the other all the time. Its nor going to work.
#27-Olo Baggins of Bywater-You need another layer on that tinfoil hat.
If you think my assessment is crazy then please lavish us with your insight and regale us with where you believe I have gone astray.
Clearly you are the expert…
# 4 ECA said,”HOW MANY PAGES DOES Medicare work under.. 35000??”
No, no, my friend. Those are the rules and regulations written to control Medicare. The bill was only a couple of hundred pages long.
Starting out with a 1500 page bill, we’ll need another for4est or two for the final regulations.
someone should tell these asshats that they do not get paid by the pound
Very few commented on 40% tax on high-end insurance plans. However, that fact best shows what this whole thing is about: redistribution. Obama and Democrats can as well put it as their slogan “to each according to his needs, from each according to his capability”. Wake up and spot and point Marxists and Communists. We have seen where such system leads.
PS I do not have or have any chance of ever having health insurance plan that would be considered rich and taxed like that. But I lived in Communism. One can steal from the “rich” only so long…
The federal government does not have the authority to pass something like this.
It must be stopped.
Dodd, you went astray when you joined the noisy minority that automatically ascribes the worst intentions on anything the new president attempts.
#34-Olo Baggins of Bywater-you went astray when you joined the noisy minority that automatically ascribes the worst intentions on anything the new president attempts.
The new president is in the process of repealing our freedoms – of course I challenge anything this treasonous hack attempts to do.
I disagree with that premise entirely, but where were you when the the previous president actually did repeal several of our freedoms?
The GOP today has a bad case of projection.
I challenge anything this treasonous hack attempts to do.
To borrow a phrase, why do you hate America?
#36-Olo Baggins of Bywater-where were you when the the previous president actually did repeal several of our freedoms?
I was complaining like most everyone else. No one gets to hide behind party affiliation if they are using the presidency to steal freedoms.
Why do you hate America by supporting that treasonous hack, Obama?
OK, good then.
What treason? Remember, the pres gets to set a lot of policy, that’s his job. Disagreeing with that policy doesn’t make it treason. OTOH, hoping he fails, and with him the country fails….that’s a harder line to draw.
#39, What treason?
Not upholding the U.S. Constitution.
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