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Originally Posted by UTVOL23
Many people are really naive and want to stand in a circle and sing kum by ya and think everything will be great.
First we do NOT have the money for this. Medicare has already 38 TRILLION dollars in unfunded liability how much greater do you think that number will grow if we add another 30 million people to medicare not to mention all the people who will also be added once companies throw them off of their companies insurance and the companies chose instead to just pay the fees.
This legislation is not deficit neutral nor will it give deficit reduction. they didnt not include the doctor fix in that number and in addition the numbers are based on many future programs that either need to be cut or taxed. ie cadillac health plans. Also the first 6yrs of services is paid for by 10 yrs of taxes. What happens in the next 10 yrs?
Also i guarantee all those saying they dont mind the taxes are the ones paying a great deal of taxes. When you are paying >40% of your income in taxes and they want to raise it even more come talk to me. The majority of these people are not wealthy they may not being doing poorly but a lot of physicians fall into this category. They have hundreds of thousands in student loan debt and now they not only are paying half their wages in taxes but have rising medical malpractice rates and are also facing drastic reimbursement cuts thus the reason so many physicians are considering looking elsewhere for work.
And you sound like someone that stands on the corner screaming that Socialism is going to destroy American democracy when it seems to be working fine for Europe. Socialism is not the problem, spending billions on defense, funding state terrorism and having military bases world wide while our young men and women have no free alternative for college is the problem.
Also, you have to start somewhere. I'd rather pay now and have it better later on in life and better off for the later generations than refuse reform at this point in time. The reason you pay more in taxes is because you make more. What don't you understand? This doesn't make sense to you? We can't allow it to stop at healthcare but we need to reform our educational system as well so we don't have people with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt right out of college.