do.rflex wrote: > Public health plan could save $1.8 trillion > over private only... > When Obama makes these kinds of promises you've got to pause and think. If this appears to be such a bargain, who is going to have to pay for it? Probably with another subsidy on their health insurance premiums.
How many companies will drop their current heath care plan when a public system is in place? From what I've read, over 100 million people will be forced to go on the public plan and will lose their current company health plan. "But the only way to pay for what's really outrageously expensive coverage will be huge tax increases, especially on the same middle class that's being wooed as the chief beneficiary of reform..." Read more: '4 reasons why Obama's health plan is no bargain' By Shawn Tully CNN Money, June 11, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/lwtj3q