Originally Posted by joshgirls

ultimately the big reform here is the feds forcing the uninsured to buy insurance from price gouging insurers. so the poor are going to face a choice...shell out $10K plus in cash for insurance, or take it in the ass on the penalty come tax time. The working poor won't have the cash to pay the absurd rates. They will instead get ass fucked by the steep penalty & lose whatever refund they had. In the end they will still be uninsured, & will get killed by the penalty.

i really have no clue what the democrats are celebrating. The drug companies & insurance companies got everything they wanted. & when the next election cycles go by & nothing changed, & deficits keep exploding, people will wonder why they wasted a year to get this bill.