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Old 03-18-2010, 12:36 AM  
bhutocracy
Not making A Comeback
 
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Originally Posted by nation-x View Post
Watch it get passed this week. What is the difference between this and mandating auto insurance coverage? Here in NC as soon as you let your coverage lapse the state automatically expires your plates... even if you were just late and lapsed a single day.
It'll get passed but it's probably the single most self defeating thing i've ever seen a party put in a bill. With the public option or more easily, a medicare buy in pushed through in tandem with the mandate in a simple easy to sell bill from the start it would at least have been palatable.. Nice one guys, ensure no real insurance reform will happen that would threaten the private insurance companies and double-down on the present system by forcing people to buy expensive insurance they don't want.. You couldn't design a better situation to lose votes this side of a pedophilia scandal. I understand doing what the corporate donors want, but electoral suicide shouldn't have been on the bargaining table.
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