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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
Eliminating preexisting conditions requires the mandate. The mandate requires subsidies. My guess is that takes up quite a few 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 arn argument for doing more, not an argument against doing what was done.
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And none of that controls costs which is why it will fail in the end. And none of that requires that everyone contributes, only that those who have insurance and money pay for those who don't. And none of that will fix the problems in healthcare, Mass tried this approach, see above link, and it failed. You have deluded yourself. So far the government programs of Medicaid are expensive, bloated, and inefficient, and this is the same government that is going to control this bill. There is so much wrong with this Bill it does not outweigh the good. There was so much potential for the Dems to do the right thing, they failed.