Even far-left leaning Howard Dean is criticizing it!
There are some good things in this bill. The problem is, we’re now committed to a solution using the private insurance companies. And you will be forced to buy insurance. If you don’t, you’ll pay a fine. And 27 percent of the money you put in will not go to your health care. It will go to CEOs, who make $20 million a year. This is a bigger bailout for the insurance industry than AIG. And not one person — excuse me. A very small number of people will get any insurance at all until 2014, if the bill works.
Things do not look good for the one signature piece of legislation that Obama wants passed so he can brag he accomplished something in his State of the Union address.
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