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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
"Affecting," not "effecting."
Okay, so you're against gov't paying for health care, and now, that the gov't is removing a tax break (which means that gov't was in effect paying for AT&T's employees' health care) you're also against that? So you're against the gov't paying and you're against the company paying. Who do you think should pay? The retirees?
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Thanks for the spelling correction.
But try to follow along with the topic here. This was sold as a bill that was a win/win for everyone (except those pesky rich people making 200k or these CEO indulging corporations). It has taken less than a week for it to be a loss/loss for the employees and retirees of American business.
The idea that American corporations would simply "take" the higher taxes or removal of a tax incentive was ridiclous. The Dems knew this was coming down or they were simply burying their heads in the sand. This being American workers and retirees from our biggest and best companies getting lesser coverage, paying higher rates or being dumped into the govt pool.
Basically they lied to everyone. This IS going to cost the middle class more, you very well MAY have to change Doctors, and the govt programs ARE going to be overwhelmed and become further bloated leading to that supposedly new, streamlined, money saving system to be more of the same old, complicated, money buring entitlement program.
It isnt about what i think or believe or desire. This is simply about important issues surrounding this bill being exposed less than a week after its passage. You can close your eyes and pretend that it isnt funded by taking from the middle class and leaving them in many cases with worse coverage but that wont change the fact it is. Perhaps you are perfectly willing to take that hit. But most people wont and the fact that the Dems and Obama were so willing to cobble together any possible revenue sources to make their numbers palatable to pass this bill makes me think that there are going to be a whole lot more of the "surprises" coming in the future.