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TayTay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 01:43 PM
Response to Reply #9
18. It is not a good idea
The plan has holes you could drive a truck through, not the least of which is the cost of the thing. One estimate said that a family that was 3 times about the poverty level for a family of 3 (about $50,000) would have to pay between $4000 and $8000 a year for the plan.

Do you have $4000 to $8000 lying around for mandatory coverage?
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  -Is this Massachusetts Health Bill a good thing or a bad thing? theophilus  Apr-12-06 01:06 PM   #0 
  - The Democratic-controlled legislature seems to think that it's a good idea  Freddie Stubbs   Apr-12-06 01:10 PM   #1 
  - Anything a pubbie likes turns out to be a bad idea  Warpy   Apr-12-06 01:11 PM   #2 
  - It's a totally free solution, so how can it work well?  shoelace414   Apr-12-06 01:11 PM   #3 
  - Free for whom?  Squatch   Apr-12-06 01:17 PM   #7 
  - Kennedy is for it also. Romney is NOT a neocon.  GrumpyGreg   Apr-12-06 01:12 PM   #4 
  - uh - perhaps not a 'neocon'.  endarkenment   Apr-12-06 01:29 PM   #15 
  - No, Romney is a total WHORE  debbierlus   Apr-12-06 04:29 PM   #30 
  - The Health plan would have passed over a Romney veto - Dems control  papau   Apr-12-06 01:15 PM   #5 
  - Thank you and thanks to all for the info. I agree that single payer  theophilus   Apr-12-06 01:21 PM   #11 
  - huge disadvantage  endarkenment   Apr-12-06 01:28 PM   #14 
     - what would your healthcare plan be?  flaminbats   Apr-12-06 03:55 PM   #28 
        - single payer universal pool coverage of course  endarkenment   Apr-12-06 04:02 PM   #29 
  - un(der)funded ill conceived self serving bullshit  endarkenment   Apr-12-06 01:17 PM   #6 
  - It is a start ...  Cosmocat   Apr-12-06 01:17 PM   #8 
  - like medicare plan d was a start. nt.  endarkenment   Apr-12-06 01:40 PM   #16 
  - It's a good idea  Nederland   Apr-12-06 01:19 PM   #9 
  - I agree. Great point. FDR tried so many different things to help get  theophilus   Apr-12-06 01:26 PM   #12 
  - It is a mandate and a giveaway to healthco.  endarkenment   Apr-12-06 01:27 PM   #13 
  - It is not a good idea  TayTay   Apr-12-06 01:43 PM   #18 
  - You assume  Nederland   Apr-12-06 02:27 PM   #26 
     - That's foolishness  TayTay   Apr-12-06 06:43 PM   #34 
  - An experiment that will be paid for  dbaker41   Apr-12-06 02:13 PM   #24 
     - Doubt is good  Nederland   Apr-12-06 02:27 PM   #27 
  - if you have chosen to raise a family and complain about singles  RGBolen   Apr-12-06 01:19 PM   #10 
  - Steffi Woolhandler MD and David Himmelstein MD  Coastie for Truth   Apr-12-06 01:42 PM   #17 
  - I saw Steffie Woolhandler last year  TayTay   Apr-12-06 01:48 PM   #21 
     - If you do a DU full text search on "Steffi Woolhandler"  Coastie for Truth   Apr-12-06 02:05 PM   #23 
  - At the moment-  oneold1-4u   Apr-12-06 01:45 PM   #19 
  - It sounds good at first, but the devil is in the details again!  napi21   Apr-12-06 01:48 PM   #20 
  - How many lives need to be saved before it is a good thing?  Cobalt Violet   Apr-12-06 02:00 PM   #22 
  - There is no indication that this plan saves any lives at all.  endarkenment   Apr-13-06 09:27 AM   #36 
     - Were did you get your information?  Cobalt Violet   Apr-13-06 09:30 AM   #38 
  - Romney wants to appear to be for it - but he line itemed vetoed the fee  merbex   Apr-12-06 02:26 PM   #25 
  - Dead Right. He will campaign on this, though. He is a whore.  debbierlus   Apr-12-06 04:30 PM   #31 
  - That people don't have health insurance IS a problem...  SmokingJacket   Apr-12-06 04:35 PM   #32 
  - AFFORDABLE policies have to provide affordable access  endarkenment   Apr-13-06 09:30 AM   #37 
  - Mass resident here, it don't look good so far  Jim Warren   Apr-12-06 04:58 PM   #33 
  - Not that good, apparently  Mass   Apr-12-06 06:45 PM   #35 
 

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