Reply #41: OK, here it is [View All]

[MadHound]

As a teacher, I get pretty good insurance benefits. This is a stab at making up for the crappy wages that teachers get. If this bill goes through, two things will happen. First, my rates will go up as the excise tax will be passed on to myself, the end user. On my salary paying another thousand dollars or more will be a huge hit on my bottom line. This same situation will be faced by millions of other people all across this country. Instead of balancing the health care budget on the backs of the middle and working class, why not simply tax the rich? Is that too much to ask for, or are you one of those who want to protect the ill gotten gains of the rich in this country?

Furthermore, under the Senate bill we will be handing a mandated monopoly over to the insurance industry with no effective check in place to keep prices low (no strong public option, no public option at all). As in any monopoly, prices for insurance will rise and rise, by some estimates up to twenty percent of a family's income. I certainly can't afford that, can you?

It would be OK if this bill did support the most people, but the fact of the matter is that it will ruin most people financially. What, are you one of those who wants everybody at the same equal level of poverty and despair?

We can get a better bill if the White House and Congress will actually stand up and fight for it. But I simply can't support a bill that destroys the middle class. This is not relief and reform that will help all and actually do good. This is a bill that expedites the transfer of wealth upwards, from the poor, working and middle class straight to the top, making the rich richer.

How can you support that?