Pelosi Plan Makes Millions of People Pay Fines


	Pelosi Plan Makes Millions of People Pay Fines

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11-2-2009 10:57 PM

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11-3-2009 8:35 AM

sephiroth266

This argument keeps getting repeated and honestly it will only be a problem if there is no public option. Otherwise the argument is simply a paper tiger.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a27a7862-1fad-4ec3-a561-c69a5d5eb3aa/693526F3-D504-458E-AEE4-06CBB4C8B085/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/02/pelosi-plan-makes-millions-of-people-pay-fines/" href="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/02/pelosi-plan-makes-millions-of-people-pay-fines/" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.heritage.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/02/pelosi-plan-makes-millions-of-people-pay-fines/"><H3 class="postTitle"><A title="Permanent Link to Pelosi Plan Makes Millions of People Pay Fines" rel="bookmark" href="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/02/pelosi-plan-makes-millions-of-people-pay-fines/">
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                	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><IMG height="20" width="20" src="http://foundry.heritage.org/wp-content/themes/heritage_v1/images/category_27.gif" /> Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 12.39pm in <A rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Health Care" href="http://blog.heritage.org/category/health-care/">Health Care</A>. </LI>
                </UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/02/pelosi-plan-makes-millions-of-people-pay-fines/"><P>Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) <A href="http://www.heritage.org/research/healthcare/upload/hr3962.pdf">health care plan</A> presumes that about 8-to-14-million American workers will pay fines rather than buy health insurance. Unless they do, there’s a $167-billion hole in her financing plan and everything falls apart.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/02/pelosi-plan-makes-millions-of-people-pay-fines/"><P>Like the rest of us, this group would face higher-than-ever insurance prices under Pelosi’s proposed bill.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/02/pelosi-plan-makes-millions-of-people-pay-fines/"><P>Speaker Pelosi, President Obama and others claim they will make coverage cheaper, yet the official projection relies upon millions who would prefer to pay fines rather than join their system. In some cases the individuals would pay the penalty; in others their employers would pay; and sometimes both.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/02/pelosi-plan-makes-millions-of-people-pay-fines/"><P>The estimate of 8-to-14 million who would be fined is based on the <A href="http://cbo.gov/ftpdocs/106xx/doc10688/hr3962Rangel.pdf">official projections</A> made by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). <A class="more-link" href="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/02/pelosi-plan-makes-millions-of-people-pay-fines/#more-18859">Continue reading…</A></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/693526F3-D504-458E-AEE4-06CBB4C8B085/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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