Reply #15: I missed that figure [View All]

[dflprincess]

the last I heard was 2013 (hence my "several"). That was bad enough but this thing gets worse the further you dig into it, doesn't it?

I nearly had apoplexy (but I can't afford to) this morning while listening to Stephanie Miller. Rep. Donna Edwards was on pushing the bill. What nearly drove me over the edge was that, at one point she said she had read the whole thing, then later mentioned that people can't afford private plans with $5,000 annual out of pocket expenses. If she actually read the (House) bill she would have seen that a single person making more than $43,000 would a have maximum out of pocket of $5K (over & above premium costs). Of course, in the bill it's now called "cost-sharing" so maybe she didn't make the connection that it's the same thing, different name... As is pretty much the whole bill.

I just love the people who call in to shows extoling the virtues of the systems in other countries and the hosts agree with them - but never mention that this bill is a long, long way from any of those programs.