Viper1 said:
Yeah, so does everyone in Congress. Apparently it was over 1,000 pages long back in July and it's only grown since then. They all readily admit to having not read the whole thing or even a good chunk of it.
The gist of it is simply a single-payer system such that the government pays 100% of the costs of your health care.
The pros and cons are going to be subjective to the beliefs of the person providing them. So you'll never get a valid list of pros and cons due to the dichotomy of opinion over the bill.
With that in mind, I'll present my cons in short form. Pros do not exist at all.
Further burdens the tax payer and national debt.
Reduces the health insurance industry to nothing.
Empowers the government.
Failure is imminent (See all other government programs).
It removes the free market economy even further than it already is.
It clashes with the Capitalistic principles our nation was founded and operates on.
Far better health care reform options exist and are being completely ignored.
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I should be a congressmen. I read a good chunk of it... not too good.
There isn't anything really to hold down costs. They're talking about adding on a government agency that could maybe possibly decide if a rate increase is too high... that would go in after the bill is passed mind you.
I don't really see such an agency accomplishing much in the face of lobbiests thrown at the agency... since there is little to no real benefit of these people to fight insurance companies since they aren't paying for private insurance.
