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    PandoraSpocks: Pareene, you dreamer, you. Single payer will never work in this country because you can't dismantle 60 years of infrastructure, lobbytists and price f... more »
    AmericanSplendor: Taxing employer health benefits is REALLY BAD IDEA. Like, REALLY BAD. And I'm as liberal as they get. more »
    FiddlingWhileJimRomeBurns: At the end of the day, one of the ways you reduce the total cost of healthcare is to reduce usage of the healthcare system. Yet I've heard essentiall... more »
    If_I_Had_a_Poodle: three points 1. kill the private insurance plans, as they do nothing but deny care and pay themselves a lot of money 2. insure everyone and offer se... more »
    FormerEnglishMajor: It's not "millionaires". It's people making $250K/year - and even if you confiscated all their money, with a 100% tax, it ain't enough to pay for this... more »
    Mediahohoho: Having just plowed $16,000+ into health insurance premiums over the past year, I can assure everyone that the system is working just fine...for the in... more »
    gawkimo: I voted for bipartisanship, where the compromise will be somewhere between Obama's "we will compete with Blue Cross for your business" and McCain's "h... more »
    i'm a bottle: The bill looks really good, though I'm afraid you're right on this one, Pareene, with "bipartisanship" watering the bill down. Why do you have to spoi... more »
    Lymed: My fear is that we will get a bill with universal insurance coverage, but it will be crappy insurance coverage with huge deductibles and unaffordable ... more »
    allyzay: you wouldn't need health care anyway if you just listened to bloomberg's billion dollar tv/radio campaign and stopped smoking so whatever! more »
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    How Will Health Care Get Screwed Up?

    You know what? The House Democrats' Health Care reform bill is... pretty ok! We have no serious problems with it, besides its not just being goddamn single-payer. But there are so many ways for things to still go seriously wrong! More »