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The proposed new system would also leave them with premiums they couldn't afford.



The premiums would continue to go up and even faster than they are now. But, there are income based subsidies which don't come out that bad if you have a couple of kids to claim on your taxes. And, there are small business tax credits. Those wouldn't decrease premiums, but would make health insurance more affordable for some.

But, those are just band-aids. The central problem, how much this country spends on health care, only gets worse under this plan.

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The reason is no one has come up with a simple plan. Something like "every citizen is covered for anything. X number of dollars per month".



The thing is, someone has come up with a simple plan that does that. It's called the Healthy Americans Act. Congressional leaders just haven't looked at it seriously yet. I just deleted a couple of lines where I started to explain it, it'd get too long. But, you have no idea how close you came to describing what that bill does. Read about it here. Same links I posted earlier in this thread: Click Click Click

The liberals seem to be in control of the Democratic party in Congress. Their dream is government controlled health care. They had a super-majority in the Senate and controlled the House too. So, now that they've seen their dream fail, in the most favorable political situation for it possible, I'm hoping they look at the Healthy Americans Act.

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But no we get offered a plan that's over one thousand pages long and you need to be a tax attorney to understand it.



Well, it's over two thousand pages long, but exactly. At the very least, they need to start reforming pieces of the system slowly. Like, canning that stupid deal Obama made with the pharmaceutical companies and letting us import drugs like he promised during his campaign.

And, the Healthy Americans Act is a pretty significant restructuring of everything, but the bill's only 164 pages long. It's a pretty simple plan.