Impeding changes to our Health Care system

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Redux

The latest CBO letter you posted was in regard to ONE component, ONE specific level of coverage (bronze) to be offered through the Exchange (which you think is a fantasy) in response to a request from ONE senator.

That is why it is a factual bit of information that needs to be added to the debate as the American Public is then able to see what the real costs to them will be. The "Bronze" level is the lowest level of coverage, the coverage that most Americans will be exposed to. And by their own admission the costs are going to go through the roof. If you don't think that nearly $20,000 for family insurance is not a significant increase...

It supplements.....not replaces or updates. It doesnt change the overall "score" that CBO provided on the overall Senate bill that was adopted. If you know anything about the CBO scoring process, you would know that. But that requires someone interested in the full analysis and not just those pieces cherry picked to support a pre-disposed opinion.

I am quite familiar with the process. They are nothing more than a math clearing house for what ever information they are fed. They don't and cannot, by their own admission, predict what the actual costs will be in the end.

And deficit neutral has nothing to with what any individual will pay...it refers to the impact on the federal budget.

You are right, which is why for those who are actually going to see a significant increase in their costs could really care less about the fantasy of "deficit neutral". If you are paying significantly more for less care the average citizen is really not concerned with something the Federal Government has so far been unable to achieve in it's history.

Have you forgotten the "death panels" and the Medicare scare tactics, the "government rationing", the industry "studies" that fudged the costs to their benefit and all those endless partisan opinion columns with an agenda that misrepresented the facts and that you flooded the discussion with.... not to mention the sudden tsunami of inane pictures you "contributed" to the discussion recently

Your opinion. The opinion peices I contributed were merely against your parties line. That does not make them "partisan", other than they disagreed with your White House talking points. If you look at the majority of opinion pieces they are from subject matter experts, not a partisan mouth piece of the Demoncratic party.