Joe
Apparently you think that most people in this country are right wing, brainwashed, low mentality types who are opposed to a law simply because they oppose the person who initiated it. I'm pretty sure most people I've met are a great deal smarter than that.
Name one government run program that has lived within its budget.(see social security, Medicare, etc) Do you really think that this program will stay within its budget?
The CBO just this week has stated that the costs for the health care program will be $115,000,000,000 more than was projected.
The potential health care costs and fees associated with this program have kept small businesses from hiring due to steep anticipated new costs.
The average poll figures from all polls taken indicate that 52% are against the new health care program while 37% favor it. That's a lot of really dumb Americans(according to you, or it it a lot of right wing brainwashed bigots?)
More than 20 states have filed various lawsuits opposing the plan.
Look at a state that has a strikingly similar health care law in effect since 2006, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts health care law costs 52% MORE than it was budgeted to cost and only survives today because of federal subsidies. Many have had their insurance premiums show double digit increases. ER costs rose 17% and are still overcrowded.
The health care mandate is one of the most contentious points. People do not want to have to buy something forced on them by the government.
There are a couple of good points of the new law, which would probably be cost neutral. Denying a person insurance because of preexisting conditions and seeking out and prosecuting those who are involved in Medicare fraud are two such examples.
Let's face it. Saying you are going to insure 31,000,000 more people and save money while doing so sounds like a policy bound to cost billions(trillions?) more than planned.
Let's try tort reform( I believe that liability insurance is a major cost of doctors) and allowing insurance companies to complete across state lines to better have costs contained by competition. Those would be reasonable(and inexpensive) ways to slowly attempt to contain costs without bankrupting the country.
I do recall that a major proponent of the health care law said on national TV:" Let's go ahead and pass this new health care bill and then we can see what's in it."
