Originally Posted by will76

Has anyone talked about what would happen IF Obama did get his plan put through?

This country / govt is so far upsidedown right now and in debt, plunging into debt deeper and deeper everyday. How are they going to be able to afford to give free health care to everyone, or most people?

((( Raise taxes ))) It's the only thing they can do. The majority of federal revenue is from income taxes. So how are they going to pay for "FREE" health care... raise income taxes. So you were paying "x" a month for your private health care, now the government raises income taxes and you are paying more in taxes a year then you were for health insurance and it is substandard to what you had before. But hey, you got "FREE" health insurance. It's not going to be just the rich that will have income taxes go up, its going to be the middle class too. We are already in a huge hole, throw in "free health care" and they going to be raising taxes on middle class too, to try to pay for all of this.

(Note) Nothing is free for most of us. You pay for it one way or the other. That person who wasn't paying for heath insurance before anyway, and doesn't make much money, then it will be a great deal for him. But for the rest of us, we will have worst coverage and at the end of the day we will be paying more for it.

They need to find a better way to make health care affordable other than charging us more one place to give us something for free some where else. It doesn't add up.