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Originally Posted by dc_dux
I think you are missing my point about repenting baseless talking points.
"poor folks making $10/hr will have to pay money they cant afford"
"Senior will lose their basic Medicare benefits"
"Govt bureaucrats will make your health care decisions"
They're gonna "pull the plug" on Grandma! The list goes on and on.
This has nothing to do with chipping away at individual freedoms....it is fear mongering at its worst and not grounded in reality. |
There is a place you can go to calculate what this bill means to you monetarily and yes, anyone making over 35,000.00 will be paying, one way or another, actually both, insurance and taxes. Some people will be hurt by these additional fees, fact.
There has been a great deal of discussion about how this bill will water down medicare, that is a fact, whether it happens or not is yet to be seen.
It will not be the bureaucrats, it will be who the bureaucrats put in the position of making decisions, along with the insurance companies, they will be the regulators and money handlers, the gov will just pay the bill.
They may not pull the plug on grandma, but they will definitely help her put her hand on it if she wants to. They will lean more towards respectful death than a vegi life, which I actually agree with, but that's my warped thinking. They will not be advocates for or attempt to sell late in life extreme measures to preserve the living, it would be fiscally irresponsible of them to try and keep old people alive, simple economics that one.