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Frank
November 22, 2007, 9:37am (report abuse)For that amount of money per family ($1300) per year I could take care of my own.
RAP
January 22, 2008, 10:17am (report abuse)No, Frank, you could not. $1300 doesn't get you very far in today's health care market.
Dan
January 22, 2008, 10:39am (report abuse)This bill covers children of the self-employed. To not have it would be devastating.
MC
January 29, 2008, 10:06am (report abuse)So now if someone chooses to be self-employed, others get to foot the bill? And it's not just for the self-employed. If you read the fine print, it covers low-income persons as well. There has got to be a better way to modify our healthcare system.
Vince
March 9, 2008, 11:44am (report abuse)Dan, on the surface $1300 to cover the children of self employed sounds great. But step back for a moment and take a look at the bills on this site that cost taxpayers money. Now have a look at the ones that save taxpayers money. Do you notice a trend here? The Social Security fund is bone dry, and the average American already pays about 50% or more of his/her earnings to the government in taxes in one form or another. The only way to get health care costs down is to break the monopoly that the government, big pharma, and the insurance companies have on the system, and give it back to doctors and patients. Check out HR 2117 for example.
madmoney
March 30, 2008, 1:44pm (report abuse)great more giveaways we can't afford.
CG
December 7, 2008, 8:30pm (report abuse)What are any of you thinking who oppose the idea that healthcare is a right not a privilege? I have to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you just have not thought it through.
In what reality is not having healthcare not going to cost more in the long run?
In what reality do you think it is ok for someone who worked hard all of her life to find herself suddenly infected by a weird, rare disease that leaves her disabled ...and now must regularly make choices about which medications she can afford and which ones she will have to skip?
That would be me.
Look around you and if you have to think to understand what I am talking about FEEL BLESSED. But know this - at anytime you could suddenly find that you are just like me. For a certainty, it is already touching you but you have not paid attention yet. How is Grandma?
I am not on medicaid which IS one of the problems perhaps. I still pay a lot of taxes (which could cover all of my meds by the way).