>>>Whatever they do in the end, I'd just hate to give money for something that's too complicated. A thousand page bill doesn't look straightforward, even if it was chock full of illustrations.
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>>It does not create a governmental competition. That is where it died as any kind of real reform. We salute the profit motive here in the land of the free.
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>Then I fail to see the purpose of this. Everyone must pay and we'll help you pay? Pay for what, for-profit insurance to pay for-profit medicine?

Which is how mandatory health insurance will get by the constitution without an amendment. It's getting pushed through using the commerce clause I think. Otherwise, I don't think it would be legal.