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Why are so many American voters enraged by attempts to change a horribly inefficient system that leaves them with premiums they often cannot afford?



The proposed new system would also leave them with premiums they couldn't afford. Moreover, the premium became a mandatory expense - a tax, supervised by the IRS - even if you couldn't afford it. At a time of 10%+ unemployment the bill adds a major tax, an expense much larger than the existing taxes to these people.

Something needs to be done but this isn't it. It's hard to find any positive aspect to it at all at that this point. It's long since ceased to be an effort to improve healthcare and is instead an effort to pass something - _anything_ - with the word "healthcare" in the title.
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