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House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212
The votes are in: yesterday evening, after a last-minute compromise over abortion payments, the US House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill effecting major changes in American medical finance. From the BBC's coverage: "The president is expected to sign the House-passed Senate bill as early as Tuesday, after which it will be officially enacted into law. However, it will contain some very unpopular measures that Democratic senators have agreed to amend. The Senate will be able to make the required changes in a separate bill using a procedure known as reconciliation, which allows budget provisions to be approved with 51 votes - rather than the 60 needed to overcome blocking tactics." No Republican voted in favor of the bill; 34 Democrats voted against. As law, the system set forth would extend insurance coverage to an estimated 32 million Americans, impose new taxes on high-income earners as well as provide some tax breaks and subsidies for others, and considerably toughen the regulatory regime under which insurance companies operate. The anticipated insurance regime phases in (starting with children, and expanding to adults in 2014) a requirement that insurance providers accept those with preexisting conditions, and creates a system of fines, expected to be administered by the IRS, for those who fail or refuse to obtain health insurance.
you are always going to pay for it. about time that we stopped the system of some people getting "insurance" only when they get sick
Except a couple of months ago I was hit by a guy who had voluntarily paying his auto insurance. At that point I found out how useless and backwards the US auto insurance system is.
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If you think that the incarcerated have more rights than people on the outside, why don't you commit some victimless crime so you can join them? (See, I can ask stupid questions too.) Besides, since we're talking about what the U.S.'s founders would have wanted, I expect they'd be horrified a lot more by the prison-industrial complex than just about anything else.
As for emigrating if I don't agree with the new healthcare system, thanks, I'll be sure to give that suggestion all the consideration it's due. So, do you agree with everything the feds do? If not, when do you leave?
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Your second link is a self-spawning trap. Every time I click "X" to close the window it spawns two more. And then two more. And so on.
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