Democrats should heed this warning from Mass.

[famousringo]

Kasz216 said:

famousringo said:

Chairman-Mao said:
Socialized health care isn't as good as people think. I'm Canadian and we have it. Our taxes are much higher and if you don't get injured then you're paying higher taxes for nothing.

Did you know that the United States spends more government money as a share of GDP on health than Canada does? The average Canadian isn't actually paying more taxes for health care than the average American does. You or your employer might be paying less in premiums, though.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_exp_pub_of_gdp-health-expenditure-public-of-gdp

Problem is... this bill... as stated by the whitehouse will EXPLODE out spending per GDP for healtchare.  This plan makes that worse.  Not better.

Yeah, I pretty much knew that the US government wouldn't have the stomach to make the changes that need to be made going into this whole health reform morass. Too much money at stake, and you can see how effective it is to raise the bogeyman of socialism in US politics, even when there's hardly anything socialist about this reform bill.

As I understand it, this bill is all about expanding access, not controlling costs. Not necessarily a bad thing, but I think most people would like to see costs go down before access is expanded.