Reply #47: And I was about to take you seriously, until the last line ...

[JoePhilly]

But I'll get to that in a second.

First ... if you get a mortgage on a home, you get a tax break. If you rent a house for the same amount, you don't. Of course you could choose to not live in a house I guess. I few health care similarly. Get coverage, and you don't pay the extra tax, don't get it, and you do because your costs are going to come back to the rest of us later.

But then ... the HCR bill includes money to build community health centers around the country in which preventative care will be free. You know that, right? No co-pays or deductibles. Prevention is where you save money in HC.

And then your claim of monopoly is also wrong. I would agree that the companies have up til now been able to carve up the states to obtain defacto monopolies, but when the exchanges go into effect, that won't be the case any longer ... in addition, the plans provided in the exchanges will be required to meet the same standards as the plans the federal government employees get --- the folks who I know who have access to those plans are thrilled with them.

Last ... the bill includes government oversight of premiums and increases, which had been allowed to grow at the "monopoly" like rate you seem to reference. This bill should end that.

Last thought ... when you make that "good German" comment at the end in regards to HC reform, you don't attack me so much as disparage those killed in the holocaust. In fact, I'd suggest you sound just as stupid as the Tea Baggers who scream that Obama is just like Stalin, Mao, or yes, Hitler.

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