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Originally Posted by sinister porpoise
If you CHOOSE to enroll in the public OPTION then you have to pay premiums. That's not a tax increase.
There will be initial seed money to set up the public option's administrative costs and then within short order it is funded completely by premiums.
Conservatives that don't want poor people to have insurance say this is a slippery slope and that the government will continue to fund the public option even though current bills specify it will only receive user-funded premiums after the initial period of 'seed' money is done.
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This is nothing but wishful thinking. If you actually believe that's how it's going to work - so be it. And by the way, I love how you change TAX to SEED MONEY. Nice try - but anyone can see through that smokescreen.
Also, I didn't know the Conservative goal was to keep poor people un-insured. More nonsense from the left. The Conservative/GOP plan would give an annual tax credit of $2,300 to each individual and $5,700 to each family that they could use to offset the cost of their health insurance. Low-income families would get extra money to buy into private insurance plans.
So don't give us this rhetoric that conservatives don't want poor people to have insurance. That's just crap, but it's what I've come to expect out here.