and the Republicans are asking.
What are the price controls in the Health Care legislation.
Forgive me, but I have to play the 'where are the Emperor's clothes' game - and it has nothing to do with abortion. Lets assume, arguendo the bill does contain sufficient protections against federal funding of abortions. That's not the only issue -there is another one not getting fair air play.
If you guarantee me that there are no pre-existing coverage denials what is the price of that and who bears it. You can get a policy (not a public option one) but it will cost you an arm and a leg (forgive the pun). We won't deny you for having diabetis, we will just charge you five times as much per month for your premium. If you have leukemia now, we won't cut off your coverage mid-treatment, we will just take your house from you in the form of premium jack ups.
And then, is there a mandatory policy purchase mandate. In other words, must everyone buy a policy whether they have one or not now, and at what price? What are the price controls? Is there is a fine for not buying one like the lame car insurance analogy offered earlier? The thirty million (30 Mil) unemployed folks who lost their homes to foreclosure who don't have jobs and had their cars repoed, are they going to be fined for not buying an exhorbitant insurance policy?
These are the questions that really irk folks and have not been sufficiently addressed to the public. That is why the republicans are uncomfortable in part.
The Bishops may or may not be proxy tools stirring dissent for other reasons under the guise of abortion objections- but the issue is wider from an economic perspective. If this is one sixth of the economy, are you just playing a shell game with the profits or really saving for the consumer.
You don't want to pass a Bill that loses you your seat, and the Democratic majority if it doesn't
do the trick and makes life worse, do you?
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