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by infinite8s 3952 days ago
He used up most of his mandate pushing through health care reform.
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If you call a bill with all of the benefits up front and the costs hidden over years of implementation, bundled with the final takeover of student loans to help finance this, "reform". Then I wish he world have actually spent the capital you speak of on something that was less insurance company hand-out and wealth redistribution plan than it is healthcare reform
I often wonder if a much simpler bill that proposed a national catastrophic insurance program where the Feds pay 100% over $50,000 for a health incident would have been cheaper and tipped the actuarial tables to push insurance rates down?
couple that with reform in health-care billing and practice of medicine and I think we would have had a winner.
a bill that couldn't be read before it was passed... yeah, stellar work there