Premiums Unveiled For Health Overhaul Plans

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Originally Posted by MrSparkle001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As happy as I am for you, I'm pissed that other people will now be paying for you. That's what the individual mandate is for. They may spin it to sound otherwise, but that's what it is. The insurance companies want to keep their profits, and in order to pay for preexisting conditions and maintain a profit they need young, healthy people to pay. Young, healthy people are forced to buy lousy insurance with ridiculously high deductibles in order to pay for people who cost the insurance companies too much. Your costs are forced on others. Great system huh.

Without the individual mandate this whole law would fail.

I'm also pissed that big corporations and even Congress got themselves exemptions because it's too expensive for them, yet the average working guy who will see his monthly expenditures increase significantly can't get an exemption. You know it's bad when there's members of Congress fighting to get Congress not to exempt itself.

If I take myself out of my own situation I totally empathize, in a perfect world we could take some of the defense budget that goes towards the Military Industrial Complex and use that money responsibly to bring universal health care standards of decency to everyone who lives in this country.

With that said, thank god for healthy people because hot damn have I waited for this day.