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• mmm535

  Posted on March 26, 2012 at 5:12pm

  Of course he opposed it. He thought the public option was a much better idea, which is probably would have been. But he had to compromise with the more moderate democrats and Republicans, though of course the latter didn’t end up supporting the bill at all. So, he took the old GOP concept of the individual mandate. Not the best idea but it can still work. It’s important to remember: No one would be fined for not being able to afford health insurance. No one. The requirement is so you and I don’t have to foot the bill for someone’s uninsured ER visit, which is how our system works now. But if you can’t afford it, you would be helped to afford it– that’s the whole point of the bill. In the long run, this will save us a lot of money. Insurance companies have gotten away with unregulated profiteering at the expense of patients for too long in this country. The CBO recently slashed the cost estimate for the Healthcare bill by almost 100 billion dollars.

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